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Samsung is the undisputed king of releasing smartphones. They seem to release something every other week and have a product in every imaginable screen size. We have heard rumours that Samsung will be releasing Google's lollipop update for its top rank smartphones and now the folks over at SamMobile are showing off an early build of it running on the Samsung Galaxy S4.
Keep in mind this is a very early build and the final version will be much smoother, more feature rich and less buggy.
We have seen a steady stream of Samsung Galaxy SIV performance benchmarks since it was released. All of the performance benchmarks have been performed with the US version.
The US/Canadian version of the Samsung Galaxy SIV will come equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor. The global version will come with the gargantuan Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (8 core) processor. We have been wondering how this Samsung processor would compare to the Qualcomm and now we know. SamMobile has performed the benchmark we have all been waiting for and it seems the Exynos 5 is significantly faster.
The US version scored a respectable 23,607 in AnTutu whereas the Exynos 5 based international version scored a scorching 28,108 (using the 1.9GHz Exynos 5). The Asian variant is expected to be even faster.
Some may be wondering why the US/Canadian version comes with the Snapdragon and not the Exynos 5 octa.
No one has a definite answer but many speculate Samsung can't manufacture enough Exynos 5s to meet the US demand (the Snapdragon was their fallback plan).
I am an iPhone user playing with Android and was surprised when I learned I have to “maintain” my Android devices. One of the main maintenance tasks I do on Windows machines that I also have to do on my Android tablet is “getting rid of junk files”.
These files consume precious storage space you definitely want to reclaim. After testing over 20 different apps, I have finally settles on a free software called Clean Master. This app cleans application cache files, orphaned files after uninstalling apps and deletes app histories.
Cleanup is simple and quick with one click. It also provides storage utilization metrics so you can determine which apps are using the most of your precious space (like WinDirStat on Windows).
Download this free app here.
Interesting in testing out the Blackberry Z10 but don’t know where to take it for a test drive? Blackberry wants to make this easier and has created a special site you access via your IOS or Android browser which replicates some to the key Blackberry Z10 functionality. It is an interesting walk through of some of the key gestures, multitasking functionality, shows the Blackberry hub, BBM and time shift.
It isn’t a full emulator but it is enough for you to decide if it is interesting enough to drive to your local mobile phone shop.
