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3Dmark for Android separates performance champs from chumps

Futuremark’s 3DMark benchmark uses an impressive graphics engine to stress your tablet’s or smartphone’s GPU to its limits. Screenshot by Eric Franklin/CNET As a lifelong gamer, 3D performance (and by “3D” I mean polygonal, not stereoscopic) in tablets is something of particular interest to me. Over the last couple of years, I’ve watched mobile devices increase in performance, getting closer …

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Kindle phone tipped as Microsoft dev pops up at Amazon

Rumours of Amazon creating a Kindle phone have been reignited after a former Windows Phone general manager popped up at the company — and he’s hiring. Charlie Kindel, a former mobile developer guru at Microsoft, has joined Amazon to lead a mysterious project. Abruptly leaving Microsoft in mid-2011, Kindel’s LinkedIn profile now lists him as “at Amazon working on something …

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