This year, Intel’s presence at Mobile World Congress was especially significant because of their recent entry into the smartphone market. It was just a couple of weeks back at CES that Intel showed of their first Android smartphone running on an Intel processor. Then at MWC this past week, Intel talked more about their Intel […]
Mobile World Congress 2012 has came and went, and this year the device line-up that was announced during the show was pretty impressive, if not mind blowing. But if MWC is any indication of what is to be center stage in the mobile universe over the next year, you can be sure that the race […]
HTC, Samsung, ASUS, and countless other tech companies wowed MWC with cutting-edge products designed to compete at the highest levels in the smartphone and tablet races. BlackBerry brought a car with BlackBerry stuff installed. Which is cool, I guess.
Maybe the biggest news coming out of Mobile World Congress this year came in the form of the world’s very first official look at Windows 8, the future of Microsoft’s operating system. And there should be an emphasis on the word future, because, as Microsoft’s Steve Sinofsky put it, Windows 8 is the biggest redesign […]
Just like last year, Intivation has partnered up with a mobile phone maker to create a solar-powered phone to show off at MWC. Like the Umeox Apollo of MWC 2011, the Gionee W1512 Solar is infused with Intivation’s SunBoost 3 SmartCell technology, which promises good performance even in unfavorable conditions.
Maybe not on its own, but with a little help from its accessory friends, the ASUS PadFone unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona can really be all three of those things.
Samsung has beamed in an interesting addition to the smartphone market at Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona. The Samsung Galaxy Beam is an attempt at creating a projector-smartphone hybrid, and it looks like Samsung hasn’t done too bad of a job of it. The first concern over a projector phone would be thickness, but […]
Today at Mobile World Congress, Samsung revealed the newest member of the new Galaxy Note family – a 10.1” tablet accompanied by the same S Pen found in the smaller Note.
Rarely has a company sounded this excited about a low-end offering, but Nokia seems pretty pleased with the Lumia 610, a low-end smartphone the company says is aimed at younger users in the market for their first smartphone.
The Nokia 808 PureView, officially announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, brings new meaning to the term “camera phone.” While the phone-side specs are not particularly exciting, the camera specs are borderline unreal – a 41 MP sensor (that’s not a typo) with continuous auto-focus during 1080p HD video recording.
It seems like the Transformer Prime just came out, but ASUS is already prepping consumers for their new tablets for 2012, all of which will be branded with the Transformer Pad name. ASUS introduced high-end, mid-tier, and low-end offerings, but all three manage to pack in some very impressive tech, regardless of price point. All […]
Over the past year, you might have heard about the solar technology that Intivation has been creating for various solar-powered products. At last year’s Mobile World Congress, they partnered with Umeox to create the Apollo, a solar-powered Android phone. At this year’s MWC, Intivation has teamed up with A-Solar to create a docking station for […]
At MWC in Barcelona, Intel has announced a slew of new partnerships that will expand their smartphone presence around the world. For starters, Orange plans on releasing an Intel phone in the U.K. and France, during summertime. In India, Lava has plans to release the XOLO X900 along with Lava in India, in the second […]
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, French tech outfit TazTag, a company that specializes in NFC and similar contactless tech, unveiled a smartphone that integrates NFC, ZigBee, and Secure Element to create a very different kind of Android phone, called the TPH-ONE.
As of today, Skype for Windows Phone Beta is, at long last, available for download, finally bringing Skype to Windows Phones. And it’s about time, since, you know, Microsoft actually owns Skype.
Huawei already impressed at Mobile World Congress this year with the quad-core Ascend D, one of the world’s first quad-core smartphones. Today, they announced the same accomplishment in the tablet market, taking the wraps off of the MediaPad 10 FHD tablet.
At MWC, Intel is busy showing off their updated version of their Graphics Performance Analyzer tools which was previously only available for testing application and gaming performance on PCs. Intel has updated the software and is prepping to release a version that will allow Android developers to utilize it when developing graphics intensive apps made […]
At Mobile World Congress today, Fon announced a new wireless router that should make their Wi-Fi network better and faster. The Fonera Simpl features faster processing and, more importantly, EAP-based authentication. EAP is a universal authentication framework, making it much more easy and straightforward for Fon users to connect to other Fon wireless routers on […]
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Option announced what will be the world’s smallest 3G and Wi-Fi portable hotspot, called the XYFI.
Nivio, which recently launched in the United States, is bringing its cloud computing act to Europe, as announced at Mobile World Congress today.
If you live stateside, you might not have heard of ZTE, but they are currently the fourth-largest handset maker in the world. Now, they want to grow by entering the United States and Chinese markets. One way they might do that is with the ZTE Orbit, unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
