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Apple announced a brand new chipset for the iPhone 5s – the Apple A7 – and in traditional Apple fashion proceeded to give very little detail about it. The company promised 2x performance increase over the iPhone 5 in CPU and GPU performance (and 40x over the original iPhone). There was very little on the GPU front – OpenGL ES 3.0 support was added and the presenters boasted about the improved graphics, but GPU model remains unknown. The Apple A6 in the iPhone 5 had a PowerVR SGX543MP3, so there's a high chance Apple is using a newer PowerVR or at least one with more cores / at a higher clock rate. A GFXBecnh 2.5 score confirms the performance has indeed gone up, but the test is getting old now (and uses OpenGL ES 2.0) so we're not seeing the full capabilities of the new GPU (like those fancy lens flares in Infinity Blade III). GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen) Higher is better Sort by Label Sort by Value Sony Xperia Z Ultra 60 Apple iPhone 5S 56 ...

Apple has just announced the iOS 7 update will become available on all compatible iGadgets on September 18. The update will be distributed for free, of course. The iOS 7 is compatible with iPhone 4 and above, iPad 2 and above, iPad mini and iPod Touch 5th generation. Apple has also announced it will supply all iOS 7 devices with iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps for free.

Just as expected, the newly introduced Apple iPhone 5s looks the same on the outside (if you don't count the new white with gold/champagne color option). It still has the same thin 7.6mm profile and it still weighs merely 112g. However it comes with a number of changes under the hood where pretty much all the work has gone into this time around. The A7 chipset The iPhone 5s makes use of a radically re-engineered new chipset, called A7, which is twice as fast in CPU and GPU computations as the one in the iPhone 5. Based on 64-bit architecture for the first time, the new iPhone 5s is said to be up to 40 times faster than the original iPhone with graphics being up to 53x faster. iOS 7 is now a 64-bit OS, but it's backward compatible with all the currently available 32-bit apps. The A7 also supports OpenGL ES 3.0, which opens the door to even higher-quality graphics, allowing for real-time computation of effects such as depth of field, blur, full screen vignettes and ...

After the Sony Xperia Z1 (a.k.a. Honami) made the big splash at IFA 2013, it's now time to get back to the business of rumoring the mini version of the water resistant smartphone by Sony. In keeping with previous Xperia Z1 mini leaks, come two images suggesting the handset is indeed in the making. The first one is of an alleged Xperia Z1 mini pictured lying on its front next to two Xperia Z1s. The other image is of what looks to be a front panel of the rumored mini device.   Sony Xperia Z1 mini alleged pictures Since there's no official word from Sony, we have no way of knowing if the two images can be taken at face value. Along with the images we get a sneak peak at some of the specs as well. Proceed with caution as these could turn out to be nothing more than speculations, too. The Xperia Z1 mini is said to bring a 720p 4.3" screen (like the HTC One mini), carry 2 gigs of RAM to accompany the quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor (it already gets doubtful),...