Presumed Sony Xperia X Compact follow-up benchmarked with 720p screen, Snapdragon 835

This G8441 has to be an IFA 2017-bound sequel for last year's Sony Xperia X Compact, with 720p screen resolution and a Snapdragon 835 SoC in tow.

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HTC U11 performance is best in May for AnTuTu, topping iPhone 7 Plus

When have you heard of an Android phone topping an iPhone for a benchmark? Rarely, if ever at all. And HTC somehow managed to do it.

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Nokia 9 benchmarks continue making the rounds, this time with 4GB RAM, Snapdragon 835

The upcoming Nokia 9 flagship Android phone could pack as little as 4 and as much as 8GB RAM, but that Snapdragon 835 SoC looks settled.

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AnTuTu log of Nokia D1C reveals just a few more specs

An AnTuTu synthetic benchmark log has affirmed the existence of a Nokia device, codenamed D1C, running on Android Nougat. It was painted to be on the lower side of the mid-range in terms of specifications, though we have a couple of new spec lines now, thanks to this new information.To recap what we learned from Geekbench runs, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 apparently runs on this thing, backed by 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. What’s new is that we’re seeing a full HD screen and two cameras — ...

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Xiaomi Mi 5s is officially teased for looming debut with high AnTuTu score

AnTuTu is widely recognized as one of the most fickle, least trustworthy mobile device performance testing tools, and yet, everyone keeps paying attention to its reports, especially prior to and shortly after various flagship model releases.Even OEMs will sometimes flaunt unusually high benchmarking scores as ultimate evidence of their products’ imposing raw speed, as seems to be the case for the Xiaomi Mi 5s. This bad boy has practically been confirmed for a September 27 announcement a couple of days ...

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iPhone 7 crushes AnTuTu benchmarking records with 178,000+ score

At first glance, there’s nothing special about the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus internals. Less laughable than the dual-core in-house Apple A9 processor of the 6s and 6s Plus, the quad A10 is paired with a modest-sounding 2GB RAM inside the newest 4.7-inch iOS handheld, and 3 gigs of the good stuff under the hood of the dual rear cam-sporting ...

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AnTuTu claims to log LeEco Pro 3 with Snapdragon 821

Chinese synthetic benchmarking firm, AnTuTu, claims to have caught wind of LeEco’s first Snapdragon 821 smartphone, if not one of the first… well, as opposed to all those other times when teasers got screwy and numbers were more fuzzy.The LeEco Pro 3 scores a healthy 163,546 points on the composite of tests that AnTuTu offers. The company also claims that the device is ...

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AnTuTu lists most benchmarked phones for first half of 2016

Want to know what’s hot? The sun. Fire. Takes. Hot takes.What else seems to be hot for the Chinese developers behind benchmarking app AnTuTu are smartphones and plenty of them. So, the team over there has decided to compile a list of the ten most popular smartphones benchmarked on its app in the first half of the year.Here’s the big view for some major geographies:PopularityGlobalChinaKoreaUS1Samsung Galaxy Note 5Redmi ...

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Meizu MX6 has Helio X20 and 20.7MP camera according to AnTuTu

Meizu’s been soaking in more coverage recently with its PRO 6 smartphone (that still hasn’t actually gone to market just yet) and has a lot of buzz about for its next premium smartphone, too.Let’s talk, though, about the value-bombing MX-series that should be arriving sometime — anytime — in the

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Analyst talks MediaTek Helio X30, Kirin 960 and Snapdragon 830 all at once

Artemis Fowl was a book I never read while in school, but you’ll be reading a lot about a certain “Artemis” in a bit.It’s the codename to ARM’s new 10nm-based mobile processor that’s to replace the Cortex-A72. The A72 is the two-core powerhouse that tops the ten-core packages that are MediaTek’s Helio X20 and X25 chipsets. But as we’re already talking about the Helio X30, we’re ...

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Purported pre-release ZTE Axon 2 comes very close to breaking AnTuTu records

AnTuTu is a benchmarking tool that’s likely equal parts popular and controversial. Known to have been faked and duped more than once in the past, the mobile device performance-measuring app is still widely used by consumers, reviewers and sometimes manufacturers eager to prove their babies are the best of the best.Unfortunately, its latest update, to version 6.0, seems to have again made way for score manipulation or at least erratic and inconsistent results across very similar phones.The Xiaomi Mi ...

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AnTuTu 5 update goes live on Google Play

Benchmarking applications have been a hot topic as of late, as many manufacturers have cheated and gamed results, making headlines. The most popular benchmarking app out there though, is helping to thwart that by doing what it can – today, the AnTuTu 5 update has gone live in Google Play.The AnTuTu 5 update was first covered by us, in video form and lengthy written form, back when we were able to obtain a beta version for ...

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AnTuTu 5.0 overview: what’s new in this upcoming update? (Video)

Benchmarking programs have long been a controversial subject. Big manufacturers have been accused of cheating them, and the process of putting a score to a phone has been debated too. So when AnTuTu Labs announced that its famous benchmarking app would be receiving a pretty huge update, we decided to give it a run — this is our AnTuTu 5.0 overview.Many tests are run as part of any benchmarking program, and AnTuTu is no exception. While these tests themselves are generally considered great metrics ...

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