Arm is reportedly aiming to launch an Apple-beating smartphone CPU this year. The CPU is codenamed Blackhawk and will ostensibly be called the Cortex-X5. We’d expect the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 and ...

If you are familiar with emulators, then an Android emulator would come as no surprise for you. Generally, an emulator is a program that enables you to run software from another device on your ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

A benchmark test is a tool that you can use to compare the speed and performance of any given set-up/device. The idea is simple: the program runs a series of complex, arbitrary operations and then ...

Android 16 QPR2 brings performance improvements of up to 20% to Google Pixel phones, boosting graphics, and benchmarks.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of "Playing the Edge." Apply to speak here and learn more about ...

In a recent post, I drew analogies between Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and Apple's Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows. Although the conclusion of that prior writeup was generally favorable to ...

The latest phone from Meizu offers a deca-core CPU, but at least a few of those cores are there for marketing purposes. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Android phone makers are responding to Apple’s recent public relations nightmare, after it was revealed the company slowed older iPhone models down to compensate for aging batteries, and to avoid any ...

Android: Like traditional utilization meters for desktop computers, SeePU offers you a peek into your Android phone's heavy lifting with CPU, memory, and network monitoring. SeePU puts monitoring ...

CPU-Z is a popular tool that lets Windows users identify information about their computer’s CPU, memory, motherboard, and more. Now CPU-Z is also available for Android, making it easy to find out ...

If you're a developer, you may have noticed one bug in the latest Android 7.0 and its various Developer Preview releases: the option to "Show CPU usage" under Developer Options in the settings only ...