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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II will feature a 1.5 Ghz dual-core Qualcomm processor

By Cory Gunther
on 13 Sep, 2011

Well folks, this has now been confirmed rather than just a rumor. If sources are correct the Samsung Galaxy S II headed to T-Mobile (aka Hercules) will feature the fastest CPU of all the U.S. Galaxy S II phones and will clock in at 1.5 GHz thanks to Qualcomm. We mentioned this last week but had no confirmation as to whether it would feature the same 1.2 GHz speed as the rest, or be faster.

Samsung Galaxy S II for T-Mobile sporting different dual-core processor

By Cory Gunther
on 12 Sep, 2011

While all variants of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S II are running on a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor made in house by Samsung known as the Exynos SOC. New details have now confirmed what was previously just a rumor that the T-Mobile version will in fact be running with a different processor from the rest of the pack.

Smart Bar Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone brings us back to 2007

By Cory Gunther
on 8 Sep, 2011

In what I can only describe as one of the most amazing looking phones of 2011 (I mean 2007) we have the amazingly awesome Smart Bar Android phone from eAccess. This is a new phone that will be called the Smart Bar that should hit the streets of Japan starting September 22nd. Who wants one? I know I do.

HTC Amaze 4G Pictures Leak, More Specs Confirmed

By Cory Gunther
on 4 Sep, 2011

New pictures have just leaked of the much rumored HTC Ruby. This will be the newest beast on T-Mobile's lineup and according to recent leaks they will be calling it the HTC Amaze 4G. While this isn't the first time we've spotted this phone we do see the entire package this time around.

Fusion Garage Grid 4 Revealed

By Chris Burns
on 15 Aug, 2011

Alongside today's reveal of the Grid 10, a tablet device from Fusion Garage running a "new" OS called Grid, the folks at what's been called TabCo for the past few months have revealed the Grid 4, a smartphone device running the same OS. This new OS was built on the basic Android kernel and is capable of running Android apps AND is able to sync up perfectly, or so they say, with the tablet that'll be released on the 15th of September. This smartphone device will have a 4-inch WVGA display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 processor paired with 512MB of RAM.

HTC Wildfire S Review

By Chris Burns
on 4 Aug, 2011

Welcome to the smallest member of the HTC Android family, one that fits directly in the palm of your hand, comes in at least a couple of cool color combinations, and beats out the whole rest of the world in mid-range competition. This is the HTC Wildfire S, the newest in a lovely line of HTC devices announced back in February, plus more since, these being thus: myTouch 4G Slide, Sensation, Flyer (tablet), and Facebook phones - ChaCha (aka Status on AT&T) and Salsa. Will the HTC Wildfire S stand up with the impressive lineup HTC has already released this summer season? Let's take a look!

HTC Wildfire S Available Today at T-Mobile

By Chris Burns
on 3 Aug, 2011

The team at HTC have been releasing a torrent of amazing and fantastic devices over the past few months, including but not limited to the myTouch 4G Slide, Sensation, Flyer (tablet), and Facebook phones - ChaCha (aka Status on AT&T) and Salsa. The newest item in this vast collection originally announced back at Mobile World Congress 2011 is the HTC Wildfire S, a teeny tiny device that's available at T-Mobile today!

HTC Wildfire S Hands-On and Unboxing

By Chris Burns
on 3 Aug, 2011

We've got a treat for you here, one of the tiniest little treats we've ever had the pleasure of checking out, one made for small-hands-having ladies and gentlemen across the world - an HTC device made for those who love the coolness of HTC's Sense UI without the giant nature of the top-tier devices we early adopters love so very much. This device comes with a 3.2-inch display, a 5-megapixel camera on the back, and it weighs in at a mere 3.7 ounces (105 grams.) Will this little superstar capture our hearts above the rest of the mid-tier competition?

Qualcomm Snapdragon Receives Branding Update, Shows Quad-Core

By Cory Gunther
on 3 Aug, 2011

Today Qualcomm has announced a new naming scheme for the Snapdragon platform. They are moving to a simple and easy to understand outline for the naming of current and upcoming products to keep everything easier to understand. They also showed a few specs of what we can expect to see in the future and things sure are looking good, can you say quad-core!

Qualcomm Releases Vellamo Benchmark Aimed at Mobile Browser Performance [Hands-On]

By Cory Gunther
on 14 Jul, 2011

We all love benchmarks right? We get a shiny new smartphone or tablet and one of the first things we do is run a few benchmarks for comparison, I do at least. I'm always trying new things and tweaking CPU speeds trying for a high score. Qualcomm has developed a new benchmark system aiming for something entirely different. Its goal is testing mobile web browser performance across the Android platform.