#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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 live pictures and hands-on video at #MWC11
Look, it’s an iPhone! No! Look, it’s a Galaxy S! No! Look, it’s a Galaxy S II! The Samsung Galaxy Ace (S5830) is neither of those. This Android-powered smartphone is a ‘mini’ version of the Galaxy S, one may say. Its target market is the midrange, people who want a very well designed smartphone but [...]
HTC Wildfire S live pictures and hands-on video at #MWC11
The third of the three rehashes of past HTC phones powered by the letter “S” is the Wildfire S. Joining the Desire S and the Incredible S in HTC’s lineup, this phone is noticeably smaller than either of those, for it has the same screen size as its predecessor, the original Wildfire. However, HTC has [...]
HTC Incredible S live pictures and hands-on video at #MWC11
HTC must have seen a gigantic gap in their portfolio between the Desire (and now, the Desire S) with its 3.7-inch screen, and the Desire HD that has a 4.3-inch screen. And so they decided to fill that gap with the HTC Incredible S, just announced today. This device, clearly modeled after the Droid Incredible [...]
HTC Desire S live pictures and hands-on video at #MWC11
Today was the day when HTC chose to announce its new handsets for 2011 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Today is also the day when phone branding has died a bit, since HTC chose to reuse three of its existing names. And add “S” to them. Not “2″, but “S”. How coincidental might that [...]
HTC Intros Salsa and ChaCha Facebook-Centric Androids at MWC. Available Q2 in Europe and Asia
While they may not be official “Facebook Phones” for all intents and purposes, that’s ultimately what they are: 2 Android handsets announced by HTC this morning at MWC, the HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha, are incredibly Facebook-centric and even have a dedicated Facebook button. That, I believe, is the closest you can get to a [...]
HTC Adds Incredible S, Desire S and Wildfire S to Android Lineup at MWC
When HTC promised big things were coming to MWC, I wasn’t sure what to think. Historically HTC prefers to make MWC its biggest show of the year for announcements, and as we see the press releases trickle out as the press conference gets underway, we know that HTC is doing it once again. First we [...]
HTC Announces its First Tablet, the Flyer. Runs Android 2.4 Gingerbread
We just got a flood of information all at once about HTC’s newly announced devices at Mobile World Congress, and it’s going to be a great ride. First up is the long-expected HTC Flyer, the company’s first foray into the tablet market; it’s a 7-inch Android tablet, but isn’t running Honeycomb like all the other [...]
#MWC11: Motorola Atrix may arrive in Europe in March
File this under ‘rumored, but from a rather reliable source’. Remember the Motorola Atrix, the Android-powered superphone that AT&T likes to call ’4G’? Are you in Europe and possibly drooling over its impressive specsheet? Well, while roaming through Motorola’s booth at Mobile World Congress, I came across an interesting bit of info. According to a [...]
Texas Instruments Announces Me-D Experience, Powered by OMAP 4
Texas Instruments (TI) has been keeping almost as busy as Qualcomm, coming out with a few announcements of its own today. One of the biggest unveilings is the introduction of the Me-D Experience running on TI’s OMAP 4 platform. Me-D experiences are gestures and interactions, in which customers are “no longer limited to the physical [...]
HTC Prepping 2 Facebook Phones For MWC Announcement Tomorrow
If HTC were only announcing the Desire 2 and Wildfire 2 tomorrow, we’d think that they were a bit overconfident in their “we’ve got big things coming at MWC” talk. So we’re glad to hear that HTC has a couple other secrets lined up for us, as Pocketnow has confirmed that they have not one, [...]
HTC Wildfire 2 Also Given First Press Shot
Well, look at that — we just barely finish talking about the Desire 2 press shot being leaked, and immediately afterward we find the Wildfire 2 being given the same treatment. So now we are almost certain we can expect both of these phones being presented at tomorrow’s presser. Now all we need to complete [...]
Motorola Pro hands-on at #MWC11
I could probably write an entire post just ranting about Motorola’s apparent lack of interest towards the Pro, at least compared to the Xoom. This has resulted in all three of the Pros that were on display being in an area in which the lighting choices were anything but camera-friendly, as you’ll undoubtedly gather from [...]
Motorola Xoom hands-on at #MWC11
The Mobile World Congress has started with very good news for Android tablet lovers. First, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 got official yesterday, then earlier today Motorola confirmed that the Xoom tablet will be sold in Europe starting in the second quarter of this year. Let’s not forget that the Xoom was the first officially [...]