MEDOLOGY

• Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 spotted at FCC
• Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Benchmarks
• Samsung to introduce new Exynos SoC at CES 2014?
• Microsoft releases its classic games Solitaire, Mahjong and Minesweeper for Windows Phone 8 devices
• Sony launches My Cloud app for Android devices
• Huawei Ascend Mate 2 images surface, hints at metal body

Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 spotted at FCC Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 (SM-T320) has been spotted at the FCC. According to earlier rumors Samsung would launched this tablet along with the Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 (SM-T520/T525) and Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 (SM-P900/P905) sometime in Q1 2014. The  Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is expected to feature a 8.4-inch screen, as the name indicates, come with Bluetooth LE and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac connectivity. It is also likely to come in a 4G LTE variant, similar to the Galaxy Tab 3. As you can see in the FCC sketch above, the tablet has a rear camera with flash on the back. You can also see the dimensions of the tablet in the sketch, which makes it slightly larger than the 8-inch Tab 3. We don't have any other specifications of the device at the moment. Samsung already has 10-inch tablets and is rumored to launch the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 tablet with a 12.2-inch screen. The Samsung SM-T320 Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is expected to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2014. Source | Via

Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Benchmarks Samsung launched the Galaxy Star Pro, the successor of the Galaxy Star back in October. We already unboxed the device earlier this week. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. The Star Pro packs a 1 GHz single-core Spreadtrum SC6820 processor based on ARM Cortex A5 CPU and has Mali 400 GPU. The phone has a 4.0-inch WVGA (480×800 pixels) display and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS with Samsung's own Touchwiz UI on top. Since this is just an entry-level chip, the performance would obviously be just average. Let's find out how it performs in a range of synthetic benchmark tests. Quadrant Benchmark The phone manages to score 2119 points in the Quadrant Benchmark. AnTuTu Benchmark 3.3 It holds the last place in the AnTuTu Benchmark 3.3. Vellamo 2.0 HTML5 In manages to score 1113 points in the Vellamo 2 HTML5 browser benchmark. Vellamo 2.0 Metal In the Vellamo 2 HTML5 browser benchmark, it manages to score 340 points. Linpack Single Thread It scores just 25.8 MFLOPS in the Linpack single thread benchmark. Linpack Multi-Thread It  locks just 22.8 MFLOPS in the Linpack multi-thread benchmark. NenaMark 2 Since the phone is powered by a Mali 400 GPU, it managed to clock 39.6 FP, better than most of the phones in the similar range. GFXBench 2.7 T-Rex ...

Samsung to introduce new Exynos SoC at CES 2014? With CES just around the corner, Samsung has already started teasing what it has planned up for CES 2014. SamsungExynos's Twitter account has teased asking if we are ready to #UnlockExynos. With UnlockExynos, it could possibly mean that Samsung are planning to update their current octa-core solution to true octa-core. Samsung was the first company to announce an octa-core processor and it featured in the Samsung Galaxy S4 which was launched earlier this year. But it wasn't a true octa-core product. There were a pair of quad-core processors that worked in tandem depending on the amount of load. This was based on ARM's big.LITTLE architecture and later in the year, MediaTek unveiled the world's first true octa-core solution that utilized all eight cores. Samsung updated their original octa-core SoC - Exynos 5410 to Exynos 5420 in Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and they claimed that the new SoC was capable of running eight cores at the same time. However, for 8 cores to work simultaneously HMP(Heterogeneous Multi Processing) has to be enabled both at the hardware as well as at the software(kernel) level. In the Galaxy Note 3 which is powered by Exynos 5420, HMP is already activated at hardware level and ...

Microsoft releases its classic games Solitaire, Mahjong and Minesweeper for Windows Phone 8 devices Microsoft has released their classic Windows games, Solitaire, Mahjong and Minesweeper on the Windows Phone 8 platform. These games were popular on Windows PCs back in the 90s. Now Microsoft have redesigned these games to suit a new generation of players and devices. Since these are Xbox games, this lets you log in with your Xbox account to earn achievements, compete with your friends, submit your scores to the leaderboards, and track your personal gameplay statistics. ou can also play, pause, and resume your games across Windows phone 8 devices, PCs, and Windows 8 tablets. The Solitaire Collection five different card games in one including, Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, TriPeaks and Pyramid. Mahjong three different themes to choose from at three levels of difficulty. It has improved Undo system and players have the option of rewinding to fix mistakes. The most popular Minesweeper lets you mark the locations with a touch of your finger. It has Easy to Hard puzzles to choose from. Microsoft Solitaire Collection - Windows Phone 8 Microsoft Mahjong - Windows Phone 8 Microsoft Minesweeper - Windows Phone 8 All these games free to download.

Sony launches My Cloud app for Android devices Taking a break from the usual routine of releasing smartphones, Sony is now launching an Android app - My Cloud. Sony's My Cloud application hopes to be your one stop app for connecting all your cloud accounts. At launch, Sony's My Cloud application lets you connect with three services - DropBox, Box and Tonido. Sony's My Cloud app aims to ease the headache that users have in organizing their content that spreads across various cloud storage accounts. Using the application, one can easily group photos, music and videos from different cloud accounts in a single place. My Cloud is designed to ease the acces to all your musics, videos and photos stored in the most popular cloud services available, putting it all in one place and organizing in one sleek interface for your Android. Just by adding your account from Box, DropBox or Tonido, all your media files become available into the application, making it easy to find, copy, move, organize and access it everywhere you go. The slick user interface segregates contents into Songs, Pictures and Videos and clicking on either of these takes you to the respective content that has been organized from various cloud accounts. Download Sony My Cloud for Android Via

Huawei Ascend Mate 2 images surface, hints at metal body Huawei launched the Ascend Mate in India back in June, which was one of the best mid-range large-screen smartphones at that time. Now, images of the Ascend Mate 2 has surfaced on weibo from the popular C Technology. According to the images, the Black phone is the Ascend Mate and the White one is the Ascend Mate 2. According to the leaked image, the Ascend Mate 2 has a narrow frame with a smaller bezel. It is also likely to come with brushed metal frame, but this might just have a plastic build that looks like Metal, says the user. Another weibo user has posted an image of the back of the device that shows a larger camera sensor with a metal ring around it. The back has nice patterns that was not seen on the first Ascend Mate. Another image shows a thinner bezel around the display, compared to the Ascend Mate, that lies next to it. According to earlier rumors, the Ascend Mate 2 is rumored to pack a 6.1-inch 720p or 1080p display, powered by a 1.6 GHz quad-core HiSilicon Kirin 910 processor with Mali 450 GPU and run on Android 4.2 with Huawei's own Emotion UI 2.0 on top. It is rumored to ...