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Quadrant is a powerful benchmark App for android smart phone. The word “Benchmark” means  “the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it” [Wikipedia]

In simple words, calculating performance metric for each component. The free Quadrant Standard Edition app is used for measuring

• CPU – Arithmetic( such as int, floating point) , branching, compression, checksum, XML parsing, Audio & Video decoding.
• Memory – Throughput.
• I/O – File System read, File System write, database read, database write,
• 2D graphics
• 3D graphics

Normally rooted phones have better performance result. You can clearly see that rooted Galaxy mini has better score than standard Galaxy I9000 S.