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HTC Desire – Gingerbread vs Froyo Benchmark
April 18th, 2011 / 1 Comment » / by Faizan
While official Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for HTC Desire is not out yet and it may take couple of month before HTC starts rolling it out, xda member LeeDroid has released custom Gingerbread rom for HTC Desire with HTC Sense. Today, I installed this rom on my HTC Desire and so far its looks awesome, navigation is much more smoother then Froyo, GMT+6 bug for Pakistan is fixed, updated version of default software, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM are working fine. I’ve done some benchmarks to compare performance of this gingerbread rom with my previous Android 2.2 Froyo Vs Eclair benchmark.
Nokia Touch and Type X3-02 and C3-01: Review and Comparison
April 10th, 2011 / 4 Comments » / by AF8AB
Nokia has found its home in our pockets for years now until Androids and Big Cats came from the space wild. We remember Nokia by random model numbers like 3310, 5100, 5320, 6120 and series names like N Series, Classic, Xpress Music, N-Gage & what not. Nokia has been a sweetheart for ages but it all came to an end.
Nokia X3-02 is a mid-range smart phone. Price: ~$150
Apple & HTC have capital values a lot more than Nokia now. Nokia has tried and failed to touch the high-end market with touch screens like N97, N900, N8 & operating systems like Maemo, Symbian ^3 etc. They have come back to senses and thought to do what Nokia does best: A lower / middle budget market kingdom. LG & Samsung have been trying to do so for a while but they can’t beat Nokia in this range.
We are where we were 2, 3 and 4 years ago. Looking for the best Nokia cell phone under $200. Back in 2007, it was Nokia 6120 Classic, in 2008 it was Nokia 5320 Xpress Music & then came Nokia 5800. But its 2011 and Nokia has realized there are people who want touch screen usability without loosing the typing. This is where Nokia Touch & Type series comes based on the outdated S40 but revamped thoroughly for a touch interface.
Keep reading if you’re considering to buy one of these two ‘Touch & Type’ models: Nokia X3-02 and Nokia C3-01.
Opera Mobile for Android Released – Review and Performance Benchmark
November 9th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Faizan
Today, Opera released their popular mobile browser for Android. If you’ve already used Opera Mini for Android you not notice any changes in interface but under the hood Opera Mobile is full featured web browser. Opera mini first sends request to opera servers which then renders and convert webpage in to OBML (opera binary markup language) that OBML is then returned and rendered on Opera Mini’s screen. Unlike Opera Mini, Opera Mobile renders web page locally which enables it to handle dynamic content using JavaScript/Ajax. If you have slow internet connection you can enable Opera Turbo which returns compressed images to reduce page load times.
Western Digital EARS Series – 1Tb WD10EARS Review Benchmark
November 6th, 2010 / 5 Comments » / by AF8AB
This is my second 1Tb hard drive, I purchased a Western Digital Caviar Green 1 Tera Byte internal hard disk. Model: WD10EARS – This drive comes with 64Mb Cache and is available in 1.5Tb WD15EARS & 2Tb WD20EARS models too. This is a comparatively slow hard disk as its engineered to be quiet, cool and power efficient.
I did a benchmark using HD TACH and HD Tune Pro to compare it with previous model of Caviar Green 1Tb hard drive that I have WD10EADS. This performs a little faster than old model because of the new 64MB Cache.
Read more for detailed benchmark and review.
Kingston DataTraveler 101 Benchmark
October 30th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Faizan
Just got my hands on Kingston DT 101 8GB and did a quick benchmark to compare it with corsair flash voyager 4GB I bought few months back. HD Tach calculated 13.8MB/s Average Read Speed. Average read speed of corsair mini was 18.2 MB/s but who cares if you are getting 2x memory size in less price. It took 63.6 seconds to copy a 698MB file so write speed is around 11 MB/s. Both read and write speeds are better than 10MB/s and 5MB/s that kingston has specified on their website. It costs 1200 Rs and per GB cost is 150RS isn’t it cheap?
HTC Desire: Android – Froyo vs Eclair Benchmark
August 6th, 2010 / 4 Comments » / by Faizan
Last month I benchmarked my HTC Desire running android 2.1 Eclair to compare it with upcoming Android 2.2 Froyo release. As promised, HTC released Froyo update for HTC Desire on 1st August 2010. I’ve been using it for around 5 days now and I’ve noticed significant improvement. Phone is much more responsive and fast. I’ve done quick benchmark to compare Eclair with new Froyo update.
HTC Desire – Benchmark
July 10th, 2010 / 17 Comments » / by Faizan
As we know HTC desire comes with great specs 1 GHz processor and 576 MB or Ram, I’ve done quick benchmark to compare it with upcoming Android 2.2 (Froyo) release. There are rumors that HTC will release Froyo for Desire in Q3 2010 and as demonstrated at Google IO 2010 Froyo is 2x to 5x times faster from its Predecessor (Eclair). I’ve used two free apps from market for this Benchmark, one is BenchmarkPi and other is Benchmark. When Froyo will be released I’ll use same apps to check whether its 2 – 5x times faster as promised or not.
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