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Samsung To Launch Galaxy Tab 750 on August 10th

The war of the Tablets just got hotter with Samsung announcing the launch of Galaxy Tab 750 on August 10th 2011. You can catch the live webcast of the launch right here! Earlier called Galaxy Tab 10.1, it has been branded as Galaxy Tab 750 and comes with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), 1Ghz Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual core processor. It is feature loaded with two cameras, the front facing camera has a resolution of 2 Megapixels, supports Video calling while the Primary camera is 3 Megapixels and comes with LED Flash.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 Launch

 

Live Webcast is now archived and you can watch it here:


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Quadrant Score Android 2.3.4

Android App to Benchmark the Performance

Quadrant Score Android 2.3.4

If you are one those geek who’s keen on knowing the performance levels of your Android Phone, then Quadrant App for Android might just be the one for you. Quadrant gives the following parameters for your Android phone:

– 2D and 3D Graphics performance
– CPU performance
– Memory performance
– File system performance

Although it takes 2-3 minutes for the app to run and compile the results, it carries out numerous tests to measure the performance of your phone in terms of the parameters listed above. Customized benchmark tests are available in Pro and Advanced versions. You can also get to view a detailed system information of your phone using this app.

Do note that support for the phones are wanting to run Quadrant is currently limited. Requirements include phones to have Open Graphics Library support, requires internet connection and standard version is ad based.

While the performance of the phones may not be same on the firmware provided by the vendor, folks that are open to Rooting /hacking / Modding their phones are the ones that benefit either by lagfix or overclocking. Here is a snapshot of the Quadrant score on a rooted Samsung Galaxy  S phone running Gingerbread 2.3.4. Benchmark scores of the Android phones running vendor firmwares are also included in the snapshot below, while the rooted Galaxy S has a score of 1221 🙂

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