The Truth behind Android Benchmarks' Scores

The Beginning : How it all started

Even yesterday, an allegedly Snapdragon S800 Mi3 leaked out on Antutu and there was a lot of talking surrounding the low score and a few theories quickly attached to it.
Cheating in benchmarking has always been the most popular sport in the PC world. We were just hoping it wouldn't becoming one so fast so soon in Android. The first one caught was the Samsung Galaxy 4 in late June via a post at Beyond3D from @AndreF.
Lately, Samsung, has been caught doing it again with the Note 3. This time, it was Arstechnicawhich spotted it.
Samsung took most of the heat, but what about others manufacturers ?

Xiaomi Mi3 64GB just got approved by Chinese Officials

While Xiaomi has successfully launched their latest flagship, the Mi3 in China, the success was achieved despite the lack of the 64 GB version.

Xiaomi Mi3 S800 Spotted on Antutu

The long awaited International S800 based Xiaomi Mi3 is finally (unofficially) showing off its face. While Tegra 4 based version is enjoying its time and selling quite well, no news so far towards its twin brother, the WCDMA supported version.
We wrote an article explaining the delay.

Breaking News : Xiaomi HongMi (Red Rice) WCDMA is OFFICIALLY launching on November, 5th !

Yesterday, we just talked about a commentary from Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi. Today, he went even farther, much farther.

CEO of Xiaomi announces that HongMi (Red Rice) is indeed coming

It is been quite a while since the last appearance of the Xiaomi HongMi in the news. Our last report talked about Chinese officials giving their approval to a HongMi WCDMA release.

It's Sunday : Photo of the Week 08, Xiaomi Mi3 Tegra 4 in action

This photo has been taken by my Xiaomi Mi2S.

So, I am halfway through my Xiaomi Mi3 Tegra 4 Review which will be published within the next 24h. So stay tuned to our blog or our Youtube channel.

We have already done the unboxing of the Mi3.

Another BIRD enters the arena

Bird is a small Chinese Tech Company which has just unveiled 2 new devices :
- Bird Snapdragon XL powered by an 8 Core MediaTek MT6592 SoC
- Bird Snapdragon HD destined to compete against the Xiaomi HongMi

There is absolutely no link whatsoever between Bird and Qualcomm despite using the name "Snapdragon".

Here is our First Official Unboxing Video of the Xiaomi Mi3 (Tegra 4)

Unfortunately, this is not the Snapdragon S800 version but the different versions should have the same content in their boxes. We will publish an In Depth Review in a few days.

MIUIandroid has published the MIUI Bible

MIUI is one the greatest Android ROM out there. It comes with so many options included, full customization, etc... but we often forget that MIUI packs so many useful utilities app tools like Backup, Updater, Anti Virus, Mi Cloud, Transfer, etc...

New iPads, what will change in the Chinese Tablets market

While the 10 inch tablets market is quite done for, meaning that the standards have been out for a bit now, people are still waiting towards the growing 7-8 inch market.