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Qualcomm Krait S4 SoC fully benchmarked, diagnosed as 'insane'
We've seen it, touched it and we fully expect it'll be turning heads in Barcelona next week, but until now Qualcomm's Krait chip has largely escaped the rigors of independent benchmarking. Fortunately, AnandTech has to come to our rescue once again with a characteristically thorough analysis at the source link. Those blue and green charts can speak for themselves, but if you're in a rush then here's the rub of it: the Krait truly is a next-gen SoC, with the dual-core 1.5GHz MSM8960-powered reference handset delivering an "insane performance advantage" of between 20 percent and 240 percent on CPU benchmarks. As we glimpsed recently, graphics performance is somewhat less ground-breaking but still very healthy, with the 28nm process allowing the Adreno 225 GPU to run at up to 400MHz, versus 266MHz on its Adreno 220 predecessor. Oh yes, this is going to be one mother of an MWC.
One Shots: Festival fun
The harvests are done, and the hard farming work for another year is largely over. Well, unless you're in an MMO -- heavens knows we farm things all year round. Still, for those who want to take a bit of time away from that, Lord of the Rings Online offers fun at their Fall Festival -- the perfect place to relax and enjoy yourself! Today's festive festival screenshot comes to us from Andrew, who travels in Lord of the Rings Online as Pojoh on the Firefoot server. He writes in to explain the scene: "[This is an image of ] my character, Pojoh, enjoying the festivities at the Fall Festival in Hobbiton, riding one of the Harvest Festival Ponies. [He's] having lots of fun." No matter how deep into your festival ales you get, you always can count on One Shots! Published every day, it's all about bringing you interesting views from around the MMOGsphere. However, we need you to help out by sending your images in. Just email them to us here at oneshots@massively.com, along with your name, the name of the game, and a quick description. We'll post the image on Massively and give you the credit! %Gallery-85937%
Motorola's Opus One leaks out, whispers of 'iDEN' and 'Android' overheard
There's an excruciatingly small amount of detail to go on right now, but the Boy Genius has managed to snag a few tasty shots of what could be the world's first iDEN Android handset. The Opus One (as it's currently codenamed) certainly smacks of the myTouch 3G in terms of design, though the bottom-mounted ball is obviously replaced with what appears to be an intensely large home button. Hit the source link for a couple more images, and drop your wildest estimations of a specs list in comments below.
