HTC One's Sense 5 infographic

You may know HTC will be launching their flagship android device “HTC One” soon, this new flagship device will come with proprietary Android skin called Sense 5, so HTC decided to show case their new software features within a single image, checkout the image at the top.

[via androidcentral]

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How to measure CPU wattage

We know unlike older 90nm CPUs these new 22nm Intel CPUs and AMD 32nm CPUs are really overclockable, recently Intel overclockers managed to overclock a 22nm Ivy Bridge processor to 7GHz, AMD overclockers managed to overclock an 8 core CPU to 8794.33 MHz, those are cooled with liquid Nitrogen but we can also overclock our CPUs at with third party CPU coolers. Most of the people clock their CPUs at 4GHz (default clock 3GHz to 3.3GHz) easily some people reached 4.5GHz with liquid coolers like Corsair H100i or NZXT Kraken X60 at the same time AMD FX8350 (default clock 4GHz) can reach 5GHz with those liquid coolers.

Before we overclock our CPUs we should do a small reach about the stable voltage, most of the experts write their experience on web so you can determine which is the best voltage for your frequency, at the same time you should check what kind of a motherboard you have because most people recommend at least you should have a 4+1 phase VRMs for clean overclock, on the other hand I have a 3+1 phase Mobo and I still manage to do a decent overclock for my CPU but I'm always worry about wattage when I overclock, you should know how much watts your CPU is drawing after every clock you push then only you can check your limits. There is an equation for determine how much watts your CPU is drawing, here is the equation: (get these info from CPU-Z software) “Overclocked Wattage = original TDP x (overclocked frequency / original frequency) x (overclocked voltage / original voltage) ^2, but there is an easy way, there is an App called HWMonitor which will measure it for you, my default CPU TDP is 125W but now it’s drawing 140.8W so now I know my limit, so you can also download the App and check. Find the links below and don’t forget to type your wattage at the comment box.

Download CPU-Z

Download HWMonitor

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Samsung now holds 46% of the Android market share

You may know few months back Samsung surpassed Nokia (Nokia was the number one manufacturer for 14 years) for the first time, at that time period Samsung managed to sell 93.5 million headsets but Nokia sold only 82.7 million. From the beginning Samsung showed some potential growth in headset business but after Galaxy S’s launch we saw some huge improvement in Samsung headset sales. Samsung’s TouchWiz Android customization might the key to this success because TouchWiz is the most stable and most feature packed Android OS out there.

Recently Millennial Media released an info-chat which describes Samsung owning 46% of the Android market share in 2012, back in 2011 Samsung owned only 23% share, as you can in the picture it’s completely doubled. Other vendors like HTC and Motorola (HTC 16% to 32% and Motorola 11% to 22%) also doubled their Android share compared to 2011; I hope LG also will gain some shares next year because of the successful Nexus 4 headset.
[via bgr]

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World's first Cortex A7 quad core MediaTek MT6589 [Benchmarks]

Taiwan-based semiconductor company “MediaTek” recently launched the world’s first ARM Cortex A7 quad core SoC called MT6589. This processor based on 28nm process and ARM mentioned these Cortex A7 products will be more power efficient than the other SoCs. MT6589 has lot of features built-in, it has a PowerVR Series 5 XT GPU inside, supports UMTS Rel. 8/HSPA+/TD-SCDMA, dual-Sim with dual active functionality, 1080p video with 30fps, 13 mega pixels camera sensor support, 1080p display support, 2D-to-3D conversion in real time, Miracast support, FM sensor, 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.

Engadget got a chance to hands-on two MT6589 powered headsets, one is a generic MediaTek device and the other one is Alcatel’s upcoming Android Smartphone with HD 5inch display, inside this device MT6589 runs at 1.2GHz and it has an 8 mega pixels camera plus 2500mAh battery. According to Engadget it’s still a prototype so their hands-on time was extremely limited at that time but somehow managed to run some benchmarks, looks pretty decent scores for me except the Quadrant score.

[Quadrant : 3384, Vellamo 2 : 1229, AnTuTu 2 : 10429, AnTuTu 3 : 12898]
[via Engadget]
[image credit : blog.gsmarena]

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Leaked image conforms upcoming Tegra 4 has 72 core GPU

Most of the tech geeks are waiting for the Tegra 4 (Wayne) announcement at CES 2013, approximately one year back I wrote an article about “Tegra 4 with Kepler GPU” (according to rumors) which will support 64 GPU cores, DirectX 11.1 and CUDA, I think it’s almost true because one of the chiphell.com user posted a leaked Nvidia’s image, which reveals the specs of upcoming Nvidia’s Wayne SoC. As you see in the picture Wayne has 4 Cortex A15 CPU cores (now I’m pretty sure it’s A15) with the fifth power saving core like previous generation, this time Nvidia supports DDR3L, LPDDR2 and LPDDR3 with Dual Channel (64bit wide) Memory controller. I mentioned this in my previous Tegra 4 article also, Tegra 3’s GPU is not powerful enough if you compare to other SoCs, Nvidia considered this problem very seriously that’s why this new Tegra 4 has 72 core GPU which has 20X more horse power compare to Tegra 2 and 6X more performance compare to Tegra 3.

Leaked images verifies this upcoming Wayne SoC will manufacture under 28nm technology, now this SoC natively supports 2560 X 1600 resolution (so we can see lot of Nexus 10 like tablets in near future) and further it supports 4K and 2K plus 1080P resolution at 120Hz. I’m really happy to see these features because Nvidia is giving a good competition to Apple A6X and Qualcomm S4 Pro. Nvidia added 1440P video playback with VP8 acceleration plus H.264 HP support for this SoC. Tegra 4 will support USB 3.0 which is very good news for us and I hope this image is real yea! It’s real, I can’t wait for CES 2012 Nvidia’ Tegra 4 announcement, I believe this will change our lives.

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5inch Samsung Galaxy Grand specs

Samsung announced another mid-range Android smartphone; its recent smartphone was Galaxy S3 mini with a 4inch display but this time with a 5inch display. It’s rare to see Samsung phones with TFT LCD these days but this 5inch Galaxy Grand (i9080) comes with a TFT LCD with a resolution of 800 x 480 (187ppi). The phone dimensions are 143mm x 77mm x 9.6mm and weight is 162g, as you can see design wise it look similar to Galaxy S3.

Samsung Galaxy Grand is powered by a 1.2GHz dual core processor (no details yet) with 1GB RAM plus 8GB internal storage, It has a expendable MicroSD slot too and it’s now supporting 64GB natively. Internet connectivity goes up to 21mbps HSPA+ but not sure will it going to support 4G LTE or not. This mid-range Smartphone is almost perfect (expect the screen resolution) because it has a 5inch display, 8 mega pixel rear camera with 1080p video recording, 2 mega pixel front camera, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS Glonass plus it has 2100mAh battery too, it’s more than enough juice for an average user. This Galaxy Grand comes with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean (TouchWiz) out of the box, yea that is fantastic :) and there are two models for Galaxy Grand, i9080 will be a single-Sim phone and i9082 will be a dual-Sim phone. No pricing details available yet so keep in touch with me for more info.
[via Samsung tomorrow]

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