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Hmmmmm dunno how this gonna work...

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Finally seen my budget smartphone of choice. The Infinix Race. Pretty decent specs for the price. NGN 20,000. So that's what I'm going for. BTW, what's the best free GBA emu on Android?

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http://phandroid.com/2013/05/06/att-...laxy-s4-32-gb/

One of the biggest complain folks had when the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 launched was the lack of higher-capacity options. It was a valid complaint considering some of these devices are advertised as having 16GB, yet only nearly half of that is inaccessible. Said devices have microSD card slots, sure, but that added space can’t be used to install apps anymore (unless you’re rooted, and even then it isn’t recommended).

It looks like AT&T is the first to want to solve this problem with Samsung’s latest handset, though, as it has announced the arrival of a 32GB version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. This edition comes at a bit of a premium of $50 more than the 16GB, meaning your total cost before tax will be $249.99. That might be steep considering the cost of flash memory these days, but if you really want it then you’ll probably pay for it.

This probably doesn’t bode well for those who opted for the 16GB Galaxy S4 for the sake of having the phone on launch day. We’ve asked AT&T about any possible trade-in opportunities for those folks. In the meantime, if you’re up for an upgrade or a new smartphone and the Galaxy S4 is on your radar you can give the 32GB option a shot starting May 10th.

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[Silenus]

Source.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6936/i...s-about-mobile

When Atom first came out, I put its CPU performance in perspective by comparing it to older Pentium M based notebooks. It turned out that a 1.6GHz Atom performed similarly to a 1.2GHz Pentium M. So how does Silvermont stack up in PC notebook terms?

On single threaded performance, you should expect a 2.4GHz Silvermont to perform like a 1.2GHz Penryn. To put it in perspective of actual systems, we’re talking about around the level of performance of an 11-inch Core 2 Duo MacBook Air from 2010. Keep in mind, I’m talking about single threaded performance here. In heavily threaded applications, a quad-core Silvermont should be able to bat even further up the Penryn line. Intel is able to do all of this with only a 2-wide machine (lower IPC, but much higher frequency thanks to 22nm).

Form factors should be no thicker than Clovertrail based designs, although it will be possible to go thinner with Baytrail/Silvermont should an OEM decide to. Displays should also be a lot better this time around. Intel is working with some OEMs on color calibration, an important step forward as I’m hearing Qualcomm will be doing the same with Snapdragon 800. We’ll also finally see resolutions higher than 1366x768, including potentially some competition for the iPad with Retina Display. Silvermont’s new system agent should do a good job of prioritizing GPU access to main memory in these ultra high resolution scenarios.



In terms of absolute performance, Silvermont’s peak single threaded performance is 2x that of Saltwell. This 2x gain includes IPC and clock frequency gains (only 50% is from IPC, the rest is due to IDI, system agent and frequency). Given that Saltwell is competitive with existing architectures from ARM and Qualcomm (except for the Cortex A15), a 2x increase in single threaded performance should put Silvermont in a leadership position when it arrives later this year.


First of all, based on what I’ve seen and heard from third parties working on Baytrail designs - the performance claims of being 2x the speed of Clovertrail are valid. Compared to the two Cortex A15 designs I’ve tested (Exynos 5250, dual-core A15 @ 1.7GHz and Exynos 5410 quad-core A15 @ 1.6GHz), quad-core Silvermont also comes out way ahead. Intel’s claims of a 60% performance advantage, at minimum, compared to the quad-core competition seems spot on based on the numbers I’ve seen.

Intel is getting really serious.
First major change from Atom since its introduction.

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[@ruantec]

Thanks for the information Silenus

btw.... where the hell is RAP?

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[Silenus]

Yeah.

Now this is handy.

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[@ruantec]

That Looks great! one Feature i want to test is the Tap & Send Feature from my Nokia 920. As soon as my ASUS VivoTab Smart arrives i will test it and see if it works. Personally i didn't knew about that Feature until i saw a Review of the VivoTab where that Feature was shown. Interesting enough i've started to like my Nokia 920.

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Talking about mobile devices.... i visited a Shopping Center in Salzburg few days ago to check TV's and other devices before choosing which one i want to get. I was there aprox. 45 minutes checking stuff and interestingly enough 4 Windows 8/RT tablets got sold on that time. 2 of them were surface while at the same time no other mobile device was sold.



Random thought:

I would LMAO if Apple Comes with a Silvermont/Airmont iPad/iPhone in the future since there are rumors saying they are testing Atoms CPU's for future re-designs.

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Originally Posted by Silenus

Yeah.

Now this is handy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVvczhM5KxI

That does indeed look pretty cool. Unfortunately I think I'm gonna be due for my upgrade long before this shows up in the local selection of non-Flagship Samsung droids.

Originally Posted by @ruantec

That Looks great! one Feature i want to test is the Tap & Send Feature from my Nokia 920. As soon as my ASUS VivoTab Smart arrives i will test it and see if it works. Personally i didn't knew about that Feature until i saw a Review of the VivoTab where that Feature was shown. Interesting enough i've started to like my Nokia 920.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc5jryWgGDs

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[Silenus]

So a GS4 = New Nexus.
Guess they didn't have anything ready.
What's funny is that the GS4 doesn't follow Google's guidelines with the menu button.

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Not really, that was obviously just an early move from Samsung to keep an edge on competitors who kept getting pressurized to offer their phones with pure Android to challenge Samsung's Touchwized devices.
Think of it as an opportunity to steal sales away from those competitors, to keep them weak.

Plus, its an opportunity for Google to make some serious money, given the Apple-level insanely expensive prices with no middlemen like Verizon taking a cut.

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[@ruantec]

Here is a small demo of what the Vaio Tap 20 is capable of. I will write a detailed post later with my experiences with it as well as the good and bad things i've found so far(not a Review).

Take in Count that the game being loaded is stored on my Server so i loaded the game over the Network on porpuse to see what happen:

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Here a PC game with Settings high:

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