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- LG Optimus 4X HD Unboxing – Elegant LG Phone With Lots of Power Gets Out of the Box (Video)
- Samsung Galaxy Note II Verizon Version Gets Branded, Photographed
- iPhone 5 Confirmed to Feature 1 GB of RAM, Apple A6 SoC Custom CPU
| LG Optimus 4X HD Unboxing – Elegant LG Phone With Lots of Power Gets Out of the Box (Video) Posted: 16 Sep 2012 01:59 PM PDT
LG Optimus 4X HD was a premiere in February, when it was announced: the world’s first quad core smartphone, even before HTC and Samsung. However, because of delays, the handset doesn’t impress that much now, although it has a pretty good price for a quad core smartphone: around $450. We received it for testing purposes and unboxed it in the video below.
The handset comes in black or white, measures 8.9 mm in thickness and weighs 133 grams. It packs a 4.7 inch True HD IPS LCD screen with a 720p resolution, as well as a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor at 1.5 GHz. Inside the box we find the manual, battery, a LG NFC tag, earbuds, USB cable and charger. The handset has an elegant black and red box and its design reminds me of the LG Prada Phone 3.0, particularly at the back. The texture of the sides and the volume button is particularly interesting and original. This model comes with a pretty big 2150 mAh battery, 16 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel main camera and Android 4.0 as the OS. As se show in the unboxing, it also gets LG Optimus UI 3.0 with some nifty customizations and themes and we also get zooming in videos, a feature that I find to be very cool. More details will come in the full review next week! Related posts:
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| Samsung Galaxy Note II Verizon Version Gets Branded, Photographed Posted: 16 Sep 2012 09:21 AM PDT
If you’re a Verizon fan and Samsung fan there’s a double reason to be happy, because the brand new Galaxy Note II is coming to the carrier with LTE next month. Meanwhile, the device was photographed in the Verizon branded version and the result can be seen below. This white version is pretty much identical to the one Samsung showcased, except for the branding.
The back of the handset sports the Verizon 4G LTE logo and there’s even another logo placed on the home button, so talk about exaggerated logos all over the place… The source of the photos doesn’t seem too sure that these are genuine shots, but the picture lines up with what we found out earlier in the week: Note II will have AT&T and Verizon compatibility. Now we’re expecting some leaked system info from Verizon or maybe a new visit at the FCC. Meanwhile, I expect this model to be the same Exynos quad core unit that Sammy announced, with 2 GB of RAM and all that. This model also has a 5.5 inch HD screen and I wonder if they will switch the CPU and replace it with a Qualcomm Snapdragon, since they did the same thing with the Exynos on the Galaxy S III, so they could go about it in the same way. I’m not familiar with the situation, is this the same problem with Exynos as the one with Tegra 3? No good with US LTE? Can you enlighten me? Related posts:
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| iPhone 5 Confirmed to Feature 1 GB of RAM, Apple A6 SoC Custom CPU Posted: 16 Sep 2012 02:48 AM PDT
The folks of Anandtech have dug into the numbers related to the Apple A6 SoC that powers the iPhone 5 and revealed some interesting details about it. We also found out from them that the new iPhone features 1 GB of RAM, which is actually sourced by Samsung. This is DRAM at 1,066 mHz we’re talking about, made of two 512 MB dies in a dual channel LPDDR2 package with 32 bits per channel.
Anandtech also lists the speed of the iPhond 5 memory at 8,528 MB/sec, a 33% increase of the iPhone 4S RAM, but below the 12,800 MB/sec of the iPad 3 RAM. What’s really interesting is that this time Apple actually make the A6 processor in house, using math units too new for the ARM Cortex A9 architecture, that was present on the A5 or A5X. Strangely enough this isn’t Cortex A15 either, so what is it? The A6 is the first Apple SoC sollution to rely on its very own ARMv7 based processor design. The CPU cores aren’t based on the A9 or A16 design, but rather on Apple’s own customization. What this CPU is able to do, as shown in the slide here is launch a Pages app 2.1 times faster than the iPhone 4S, save an image from the iPhoto app 1.7 times faster and load the music app with songs 1.9 times faster. Pretty cool right? The iPhone 5 ships with iOS 6.0 and only runs this OS, that has support for a new architecture designed for the A6 SoC: armv7s. More details can be found in the source link at Anandtech, since these guys know tech and can detail it easily.
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