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While it’s not technically a part of Mobile World Congress 2012, Microsoft chose to co-locate its Consumer Preview of Windows 8 with the world’s largest mobile conference. Even though we’ve played with Windows 8 before, we just had to go to see what’s new in this version. Check out the photos below for an idea…
We know that eBay is betting big on mobile so it’s not surprising to see it put on a good show at its booth during Mobile World Congress 2012. The eBay and PayPal booth had a nice mix of food, demonstrations and some impressive footwork with a soccer ball. The company was pushing its mobile…
We’re live at Mobile World Congress 2012 and one of the interesting trends is handset makers creating water-proof phones. Panasonic rolled out its Eluga lineup and these are thin and powerful smartphones that you won’t have to worry about if you spill on them. The Eluga Power gets most of the attention because it sports…
The big story coming out of Mobile World Congress 2012 is the launch of multiple phones with the quad-core Tegra chipset made by NVIDIA. Consumers may see “quad-core” and immediately think it’s much better than a dual core but Qualcomm is saying that it’s more complicated than that. While it has its own quad-core chips…
We thought last year’s Google booth was a sight to behold but the Android maker has upped its game for Mobile World Congress. While the layout is similar to last year, Google is promoting a host of new servies, apps and partners. Also, it has by far the most fun booth at the show. If…
Mobile World Congress is always a showcase for new devices and Samsung has its massive booth devoted to a variety of products. It also rented another neat tent to show off the newly-announced Galaxy Note 10.1, so go on a tour with us. As we’ve seen before, Samsung had artists drawing pictures of people using…
After we spotted the Galaxy Note 10.1, we just had to play with this new tablet at Mobile World Congress 2012. We’ve always been fans of the Tab series, so we’re curious to see how it will let the Note 10.1 to stand out. The Galaxy Note 10.1 has the similar slim form factor and…
We’re live from Mobile World Congress 2012 and one of the cool things about it is we get to hang out with companies that we normally don’t interact with much like Fujitsu. We popped by its booth and saw it absolutely torture testing phones, so check it out. Fujitsu was making a big deal about…
ZTE kind of went nuts at Mobile World Congress, as the company introduced multiple smartphones and tablets, highlighted by the quad-core ZTE Era smartphone. The ZTE Era sports the NVIDIA quad-core processor with Android Ice Cream Sandwich and the new user interace flavor known as Mifavor. You can look forward to a nice 4.3-inch screen…
Is Facebook reading your text messages without your permission? That’s what a story in the Sunday Times kind of says but the folks at the world’s largest social network are denying this. The story sounds pretty alarming, especially considering how many privacy missteps Facebook has had in the past but the company says it has…