Samsung Galaxy S6 Is World's Most Powerful Smartphone, New Benchmarks Show

Ever since Samsung announced the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge people have been trying to put it against other flagship smartphones and each benchmark anyone thrown at these devices showed off the charts results. The reason these two smartphones are so good in benchmarks could be the fact that they include new chipset and memory technology. We have already reported about Samsung's Exyno 7420 chipset which is made using 14nm manufacture process. Samsung confirmed the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 wasn't good enough for its Galaxy S6 flagship smartphone and that was most likely related to performance, but also on consumption. The in-house developed has both better performance and lower consumption, so we could say that Samsung took the right...

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Xiaomi Mi4 LTE Sold with Dodgy Apps Pre-Installed, Rooted

The highly popular Mi4 LTE Android smartphone produced by Xiaomi has been found to be shipped from the factory with serious security risks that range from pre-loaded risky apps to root and a shady flavor of the underlying Android operating system. The demand for Xiaomi devices has grown lately and the Mi4 LTE smartphone seems to attract a large number of customers. In mid-February, 25,000 units sold out in 15 seconds on India’s online retailer Flipkart. Apps detected as malware found in default configuration However, it appears that at least the versions sold in China are filled with enough security problems to make a customer think twice about purchasing it. Following an initial analysis, security researchers at mobile data...

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