At a panel at Mobile World Congress, U.S. wireless carrier Sprint announced that it will be launching at least ten new Android smartphones with support for Google’s mobile payment service called Google Wallet. On smartphones, Google Wallet makes use of near field communications, or NFC, technology. Users with a compatible NFC-enabled phone, for example, can [...]
After HTC had dropped hints of ushering new phone hardware with the arrival of Windows Phone 8, codenamed Apollo, earlier at Mobile World Congress, rival Windows Phone manufacturer Samsung is now offering similar hints of the impending next-generation Microsoft mobile operating system at the same trade show. Along with announcing that Windows Phone 8 will [...]
After Sony had announced that it would fully take over Sony Ericsson and buy out its partner Ericsson’s investment in the joint venture, it was believed–and hoped–that with Sony in full control at the helm of the new Sony Mobile, things would change for the smartphone division and there would be more synergies between Sony’s [...]
While wireless carrier Orange had announced the Santa Clara smartphone, which is powered by Intel’s x86 Atom architecture in the form of the Medfield chipset, at Mobile World Congress, we are now hearing more details about the efficiency and power of Medfield coupled with the Android platform. Intel reps at the trade show revealed to [...]
Smartphone-maker HTC, which manufactures phones running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Google’s Android operating systems, confirms that it would be launching new smartphone hardware once Microsoft releases the next-generation of Windows Phone OS codenamed Apollo. Apollo, which some have been referring to as Windows Phone 8, will be a major OS revision for Microsoft as [...]
After having created an uproar by eliminating the unlimited data plans just days before launching the iPhone 4, AT&T is seemingly continuing its vendetta against unlimited iPhone data plan subscribers who had been grandfathered in before the carrier switched over to tiered data plans. Most recently, the ‘rethink possible’ carrier had created an outraged community [...]
At Mobile World Congress, Corning announced that consumers can expect to find devices–both tablets and smartphones–with the company’s Gorilla Glass 2 glass screens starting in the April or May timeline. The company highlighted that both smartphone- and tablet-manufacturers Acer and Asus have announced products or roadmaps for devices in the future that will launch with [...]
Navigon announced at Mobile World Congress that it will be releasing new app updates to its turn-by-turn, voice guided navigation apps for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platform this spring. On iOS, Navigon will be brining Google Street View to the GPS navigation app, allowing Navigon iPhone and iPad owners to get street-level views of [...]
The Sony Xperia S smartphone, which was announced last month at the Consumer Electronics Show, is now shipping globally and users can begin to save up for the handset if they choose. The smartphone will be the first device to abandon the Sony Ericsson branding as Sony takes over the mobile operations from the former [...]
At Mobile World Congress, HTC had let it slip that the company’s HTC Vivid Android smartphone, which is available in the U.S. under carrier AT&T, will be getting an update in the coming weeks that will bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as well as Beats Audio support to the smartphone. The first feature, Android [...]
AT&T confirmed that its 4G LTE version of the HTC flagship One X smartphone announced at Mobile World Congress will come with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset rather than the quad-core Tegra 3 ‘4+1‘ CPU found on the international version. The decision to go with the dual-core Snapdragon rather than the quad-core Tegra 3 [...]
Thought the dual-core powered Motorola Droid RAZR–known for its sleek and slim form factor–and the Droid RAZR Maxx–known for keeping things trim despite having a battery that keeps ticking–are the powerhouses of mobile today? Well, Huawei is doubling what Motorola is offering today with a quad-core CPU powering the Ascend D quad series smartphone. The [...]
At Mobile World Congress, not only did rising Chinese smartphone-manufacturer Huawei announce the company’s first smartphone in the form of the Ascend D Quad and Ascend D Quad XL smartphones–akin to Motorola’s Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR Maxx where the latter XL moniker denotes a device with a more capacious battery, but the company also [...]
HTC worked with Google to create the first Nexus and Samsung followed-up to create the most recent two Nexus smartphones. LG may get its turn next. According to LG’s smartphone head Ramchan Woo, the company is in heavy discussions to create the next-generation Google-branded Nexus product. Woo says, “We’re working on it,” but did not [...]
Sony has finally taken the wraps off of its much leaked Xperia P and Xperia U smartphones, which are mid-range and budget-conscious cousins the the company’s Xperia S flagship that was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month. Announced at Mobile World Congress, both the Xperia P and Xperia U will [...]
My 12-megapixel capable Nokia N8 just feels incredibly insufficient now that Nokia has announced a successor in the form of the Nokia 808 PureView, which packs a powerhouse 41-megapixel still camera. The camera on the Nokia 808 can capture widescreen 16:9 resolutions at a more meager 35-megapixel resolution. The insane megapixel support bests any camera [...]
After the Galaxy Note 5.3 ‘phablet’ release, Samsung is now announcing a purely tablet version of the device with the company’s S-Pen functionality in a 10.1-inch form factor. Like the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Galaxy Note 10.1 will be an Android slate that incorporates the S-Pen, which is based on Wacom’s digitizing technology for pen [...]
HTC goes for a “Premium” market with the HTC One Series. At Mobile World Congress today, HTC announced the HTC One series with promises of a better phone experience. HTC is claiming this series will not only have awesome specs that we all love, but also a better task management and a more simplified home [...]
Yesterday, LG announced that it would be debuting one of the most anticipated smartphones of this year’s Mobile World Congress 2012. That device of course is the LG Optimus 4X HD, a device that was originally known under the name LG X3, and one that will be the successor to the the company’s previous release, [...]
Nokia took its time to get into the modern smartphone market, but it’s already made a pretty big impact. After just one quarter of producing devices running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, Nokia managed to become the biggest vendor of Microsoft’s mobile OS. It seems that Microsoft’s deal with Nokia is already paying off. In [...]
We have a feeling that HTC is going to be announcing both the HTC Edge aka HTC Endeavor aka HTC One X as well as the HTC Ville aka HTC One S at this year’s Mobile World Congress. And while we’re pretty sure we have all of the details on both phones, we had yet [...]
In advance of Mobile World Congress, Japanese electronics-maker NEC has debuted three new Android devices with varying form factor to target different audiences. The three devices each either have a large screen, a slim form factor, or a dual-screen design that will make it appeal to specific users. The first device, which NEC is calling [...]
Like other smartphone rivals that have either leaked, teased, or announced their hardware ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show that’s slated to happen at the end of the month, Acer is already showing off its wares in the form of the CloudMobile Android smartphone. The name is a little odd, but given its [...]
It looks like NVIDIA may not be the only one to be promoting quad-core ARM processing power at Mobile World Congress as Samsung may hit the trade show later this month with its own offering in the Exynos chipset line. The company had recently shown off what a quad-core Exynos processor could do, and Samsung [...]
The HTC One X has been teased since early February, and now we can finally share the first photo of the HTC One X. The One X is a new Android smartphone from HTC with a quad-core processor and Sense 4.0. The HTC One X likely uses the new NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor, detailed this [...]
Fujitsu, which has made a name for itself and its Arrows-branded Android smartphones and tablets in Asia, is looking to expand its offerings globally. The outfit has revealed that it intends to bring its smartphones globally, and Europe may be the next destination for Arrows to head to. That said, we’re beginning to hear about [...]
Asus has released a teaser video on YouTube with little information about what the company may be announcing at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of the month. The video depicts a series of Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls with the phrase ‘Divided we stand. Together we rock.’ The tags for the YouTube video [...]
ZTE has already unveiled a few of its smartphones ahead of Mobile World Congress, but the company just issued a press release stating that consumers should expect to see a total of 8 new devices being announced at the Barcelona trade show later this month. The smartphones being announced will be multi-core devices, and some [...]
Although companies have yet to make any of them official, we know that phones with quad-core processors are going to be announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress. How do we know this? NVIDIA, the maker of the Tegra 3 quad-core chip, confirmed that phones using their product will be on hand at MWC. In [...]
LG apparently doesn’t want to leave any of its Mobile World Congress announcements to the imagination as it has outed yet another device today in the form of the LG Optimus 3D Max. The announcement comes shortly after the company officially announced its 5-inch Optimus Vu smartphone and three upcoming Optimus smartphones that will launch [...]
In just a few days time, companies not named Samsung will take the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and announce a bunch of new devices. LG has already announced several of the smartphones that it will be showing off at the conference while HTC and Nokia, while remaining officially mum, are also [...]
LG is expected to have quite a few devices in store for this year’s Mobile World Congress and one of those devices will be the already announced LG Optimus Vu, a device that will feature a 5-inch display and will be the company’s answer to the Samsung Galaxy Note. And while LG has already announced [...]
In the build up to this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, companies have begun teasing their upcoming announcements. HTC has decided to join the party and has posted an odd teaser on its Facebook page that, well, reveals virtually nothing other than the fact that we’ll probably see a new smartphone announced at the [...]
Mobile World Congress is just a couple of days out in the distance but that doesn’t mean companies aren’t releasing tidbits of information prior to their announcements. Earlier today, LG outed three of its new Optimus smartphones and now it’s Nokia’s turn as the Finnish company has unleashed a teaser video that we presume has [...]
LG has already announced one of the phones we knew it was planning for this year’s Mobile World Congress in the Optimus Vu and now it appears the company has pulled the trigger once more as it has announced its new L-Series of Optimus phones which includes three different phones called the LG Optimus L3, [...]
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