Verizon Motorola Xoom Android Honeycomb tablet gets priced, $600 Wi-Fi-only, $799 with 3G
With Mobile World Congress 2011 in full throttle, it certainly seems like CES happened ages ago. Yet only little over a month has passed since then, and the main attraction in Las Vegas was the Motorola Xoom, the first tablet announced to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Google’s especially tablet-friendly version of its mobile operating system. [...]
#MWC11: BYD WG502T brings the bling into the low-cost Android smartphone space
Among many other things, BYD is a mobile phone ODM. As in, either you specify a device you’d like to sell and they build it for you, or they build some reference (but fully working) designs, and then you can sell them under your own brand. As such, you won’t see BYD as a brand [...]
HTC’s Flyer Android tablet priced in Germany: €669
Yesterday, when HTC announced the Flyer – its very first Android tablet – the company didn’t say how much the device would cost. Well, it looks like it will be quite expensive (but that’s not exactly a surprise). Amazon Germany’s website says the HTC Flyer will cost €669 (about $900). Of course, that’s a pre-order [...]
Huawei Ideos X5 hands-on video at #MWC11
Huawei has decided to be a little more aggressive in its smartphone strategy this year. As a consequence, after last year’s pretty good launch and sales of the original Ideos Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone, the company decided to cover all the price points with Android devices. Hence, the Ideos X5 (alongside the high-end X6, and [...]
AT&T HTC Inspire 4G Unboxing
An onslaught of new 4G devices is about to be unleashed on AT&T’s network, with the very first one, the HTC Inspire 4G, available this week for $99.99 after contract with no mail in rebate. We received the Inspire 4G in the mail today and have been anxious to open it up and play with [...]
#MWC11 video: NVIDIA will bring a quad-core CPU and 12-core GPU to a tablet near you this August
NVIDIA’s latest mobile chip can really only be called a behemoth. In a world that is just starting to see dual-core tablets and smartphones get announced, but most still a couple of months away from actually being in stores, NVIDIA decided to crash every other chip maker’s party and unveil Project Kal-El. Boldly branded, Kal-El [...]
#MWC11: HTC Flyer Android tablet hands-on video
I’m pretty sure you’ve already found out that HTC has announced its first Android tablet, the Flyer, at MWC 2011 in Barcelona. Running Android 2.4 Gingerbread, the Flyer is a 7 inch tablet that should be released sometime in the second quarter of the year – HTC didn’t provide an exact launch date, and neither [...]
Quad-Core Chips Coming to Mobile Phones This Year, Courtesy of NVIDIA
Checkmate, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments? Mobile World Congress 2011 is turning out to be a huge slugfest for the chipset manufacturers, all of which are duking it out against each other and trying to outdo each other. NVIDIA is the latest company to swing punches: so quick after announcing the Tegra 2 dual-core chipset that [...]
Android Movie Studio for Honeycomb Unveiled at MWC
We are having a fun-filled week with all the news that keeps flooding out of MWC. Every major OEM (even Apple) seems to be launching something huge, unique, or noteworthy. Google didn’t come out with a whole lot of juicy breaking news, but at least Eric Schmidt is good for giving us tech junkies a [...]
Schmidt: More than 300K Androids Activated Each Day, 150K Apps in Market
At last we checked, there were 300,000 devices activating on Android’s OS every day. Earlier today at MWC, Google Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt got on stage to talk tech and his company, and confirmed what we already knew by stating that every day more than 300,000 devices are being activated. But what does this mean exactly? [...]
Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Will Finally Merge Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb
Google Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt was on hand at Mobile World Congress to present Tuesday’s keynote address, and had some good chunks of information to go along with it. At the keynote, Schmidt answered a question from an attendee about the confusion between different Android versions and fragmentation, saying: “Today I’ll use the commonly used names. [...]
Announcing the Winners of the Skullcandy Headphones!
We at Unwired View want to give all of you a special thanks for participating in our weekly Facebook giveaways. We are finding a high amount of interest and are happy to continue offering great prizes each and every week. Last week our contest sponsor was Skullcandy, which are some of our favorite headphones to [...]
This Week, Win a AirCurve Play for iPhone 4 From Griffin!
Our sponsor this week is Griffin Technology, and this contest will be a little more intense in competition because we only have one item to give away. But fret not, because it’s an AirCurve Play Amplify for iPhone 4! We enjoy almost everything that comes out of Griffin, as they make a good quality product, [...]
#MWC11: LG T500 and LG Neon 11 C330 touchscreen feature phones spotted
LG isn’t all about smartphones and tablets at MWC 2011. The South Korean company has also showcased some new featurephones, and we’ve checked out two of them (which try to follow the footsteps of Samsung’s Corby handsets). The first one is the LG T500, a small candybar that measures 105 x 57 x 12.9 mm [...]
#MWC11: Umeox Apollo, the first solar-powered Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone (video)
Solar-powered phones may not be that popular across Europe and North America, but there’s significant demand for them in developing markets. That’s why Umeox – a largely unknown company – introduced a solar-powered Android smartphone at MWC 2011: the Umeox Apollo. The Apollo’s back has a solar panel that uses technology from Intivation, the Dutch-based [...]
Fujitsu is prepping an Android-powered dual-touchscreen smartphone. Live pics and video from #MWC11
The Kyocera Echo for Sprint may be the world’s first dual-touchscreen Android smartphone, but it won’t be the only one for long. Fujitsu is already working on such a device, and it will apparently be out sometime in the following months (no specific time frame was given). Fujitsu has a dual-touchscreen smartphone on display at [...]
#MWC11: Alcatel OneTouch 990 (with Google) hands-on video
Alcatel has a new Android smartphone that was (and still is) showcased at the company’s MWC 2011 booth, which we’ve just visited. Called OneTouch 990, the handset is Alcatel’s current flagship smartphone. It should be released in the UK and other European markets starting April or May, running Android 2.2 Froyo. Don’t worry, Alcatel says [...]
HP Touchpad, Veer and Pre 3 hands-on videos #MWC11
Last week HP had showed the world how they are going to get back into mobile game with WebOS products that they have acquired with Palm Inc. Their new offerings – the next generation of WebOS, Touchpad tablet, Pre 3 and Veer smartphones looked pretty cool. We’ve covered the new device specs and features already, [...]
Adding few more pieces to Nokia Microsoft deal puzzle. Interview with Nokia’s EVP Dr. Kai Öistämö #MWC11
As Nokia and Microsoft further explain the vision and plans behind their new strategic partnership, the sense of dread that many of us felt for the future of Nokia continues to decrease. Actually, the more I think and hear about it, the more interesting things look to me. Still, it’s only been a few days since [...]
#MWC11: HTC’s Facebook phones, Salsa and ChaCha, in live photos
Just as rumored, HTC has announced two smartphones that come with a dedicated Facebook button: the HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha. While HTC did bring the two phones to MWC 2011 in Barcelona, it didn’t have any fully functional units – which, of course, means the software is not ready yet. However, we did snap [...]