Thursday, June 28, 2012

Google Introduces Nexus 7 Tablet

Google just introduced its first own-brand Nexus 7” tablet. Manufactured by Asustek Computer, the Nexus 7 tablet comes with 7” display with 1280*800 resolution and is based on Nvidia Tegra 3 system-on-chip with four ARM Cortex-A9 cores (+1 low-power A9 core) as well as Google Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” operating system. The device comes equipped with 1GB LPDDR2 memory, 8GB or 16GB internal NAND flash-based storage, 1.2MP front-facing camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, NFC (Near Field Communication with Android Beam support), microphone, speaker, accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, GPS, 4325mAh battery and so on.


Unfortunately, the Nexus 7 lacks integrated WWAN support, which automatically forces the owner to rely on a nearby smartphone or Wi-Fi access point to connect to the Internet.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

MikuMikuBench & RinRinBench for Android

MikuMikuBench is a free Android app that lets you benchmark your device by watching Hatsune Miku dance in sync to that addictive Nyan Cat song.


A frames-per-second count on top lets you know how well your device handles 3D rendering in real-time, and at the end of the song-and-dance you also get a benchmarking score that makes it easy to compare performance between devices.

When not running the benchmark test, you can also freely spin Hatsune Miku around, zoom in and out on the 3D model through “pinch” gestures, and put her in one of a variety of still poses or animated sequences by selecting something from the scrolling menu at the bottom.



There is also a Kagamine Rin version of this app, called RinRinBench, which is also free to download.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Current Android Distribution

Recent statistics revealed that Ice Cream Sandwich only powered about 7% Android devices. Gingerbread still have the biggest market penetration, powers about 65% of all Android devices.

The following pie chart and table is based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Google Play within a 14-day period ending on the data collection date noted below.



Source : http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html

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