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Your estimation of black level should be pretty close. It does not seem to be perfectly linear in practice. Contrast ratio is just luminance / black level. So for 200 nits and 0.16 black level, the contrast ratio would be 1250. Because OLED displays have a zero black level, they have an...

The Moto X Pure Edition’s software is purely Android, its attractive styling is purely Motorola, and its customization options make it purely yours. Motorola Moto X Pure Edition Review : Read more

Xiaomi's new Mi 5 flagship is sleek, slim, and curvy. It's packed with high­ performing parts too, including Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 820 SoC, up to 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and up to 128GB of UFS 2.0 storage. Xiaomi Announces Mi 5 Flagship Smartphone : Read more

We are currently looking at the Lumia 950, but we have not evaluated the camera yet. - Matt Humrick, Mobile Editor, Tom's Hardware

Samsung follows up last year's radical redesign of its Galaxy flagships by fixing common complaints, polishing up the design, and resurrecting microSD support and IP68 environmental protection. Samsung Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge Preview : Read more

Our conclusion is that neither is "better." The practical differences between them are small. Nobody other than Apple knows the exact differences between the two versions (and they say 2-3%), because none of the tests online, including ours, account for manufacturing variance. It's also possible...

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The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus may look just like last year's iPhones, but hardware updates and Apple's new 3D Touch feature make them feel completely new. While the new cameras and 4K video recording may get the hype, it's the 2GB of RAM that steals the show. Apple iPhone 6s And 6s Plus Review ...

The only SD 820 device we've tested so far is the Qualcomm MDP, which is the company's own development hardware. Because we had less than two hours to complete our testing, we were not able to collect any battery life data. - Matt Humrick, Mobile Editor, Tom's Hardware

We test Huawei's Mate 8 smartphone to see how its Kirin 950 SoC performs. This is also our first look at ARM's Cortex-A72 CPU core and new Mali-T880 GPU. How does A72 compare to the A57 and Snapdragon 820's Kryo cores? Huawei Mate 8, Kirin 950, Cortex-A72 Benchmarks : Read more

ARM's Cortex-A72 CPU adds power and performance optimizations to the previous A57 design. Here's an in-depth look at the changes to each stage in the pipeline, from better branch prediction to next-gen execution units. ARM Cortex-A72 Architecture Deep Dive : Read more

Movidius said cost was a factor in its decision to use SPARC instead of ARM. - Matt Humrick, Mobile Editor, Tom's Hardware

I did a little more digging and found this in an Nvidia whitepaper about Fermi: "In the Fermi ISA, the native hardware predication support used for divergent thread management is now available at the instruction level. Predication enables short conditional code segments to execute efficiently...

In this performance preview, we subject Snapdragon 820, including Qualcomm’s first custom-designed 64-bit CPU, Kryo, and new Adreno 530 GPU, to a battery of benchmark tests. Snapdragon 820 Performance Preview : Read more

The only real negative we found was the screen, which does not match up with other premium phones. Everything else we found to be good, just not the best. Personally, I only read reviews from a couple different sites, since most of them do little or no testing and spend only a couple of days...