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Today at Mobile World Congress, we got some time to lay eyes upon the LG Optimus 3D. The specs are more or less what you’d expect for a top-tier Android handset – 4.3-inch screen, TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor, DLNA support – but the standout feature is that it is the world’s first smartphone with…
Viewdle is an app that was being shown off at Mobile World Congress 2011 that really caught my eye. Using an augmented reality interface, where you point your camera to the world and your phone screen superimposes data on top of the image, these guys have developed a way for the phone to not only…
Today at Mobile World Congress 2011, RIM announced two new 4G-ish varieties of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. In the second half of the year, there will be one PlayBook that runs on LTE and Wi-Fi, and another that runs on HSPA+ and Wi-Fi, in addition to the WiMAX version headed to Sprint. The rest of…
At Nokia’s press event tonight at Mobile World Congress, CEO Stephen Elop fielded a variety of questions ranging from how he thinks Nokia will grab the attention of consumers to his share holdings in Microsoft. Interesting stuff all around, which you can read in the liveblog, but of most interest to those who are really…
We have touched down at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain and the press events are starting. Right now, Nokia is on stage in an event that is a follow-up to its big Windows Phone announcement on Friday. Though we don’t expect to see any Windows Phone handsets this early in the game, Nokia may…
Today at Mobile World Congress, Samsung will be announcing their first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, called the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Surprise, surprise, the screen is 10.1 inches, but don’t be too jaded by the blatantly unoriginal naming, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 still packs a punch. It’s got a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor clocked at…
ViewSonic is following up on their first Android tablets with yet another called the ViewPad 10Pro that will be able to dual-boot into big-boy Windows for those times you need to do some serious computing. On top of that, they’ve announced a dual-SIM phone called the V350 that runs Android 2.2 Froyo. The V350 has…
The HTC HD7, which has been chilling out on T-Mobile the last couple of months, has crawled its way north of the border into Canada, and found refuge from the elements in Bell Mobility’s retail igloo. Bell is claiming the exclusive on the HTC HD7, and selling it for $99.95 on a three-year contract, or…
Reports from Finland say Nokia employees are walking out on work and taking the day off in protest of Windows Phone effectively replacing Symbian as the company’s primary OS. Just to give you an idea of how widespread the panic must be internally, Nokia’s Oulu office has a little under 2000 employees, about 1000 of…
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet was announced with HDMI-out capabilities, but it hadn’t been shown in action. Today, a video demo shows the PlayBook hooked up to a projector, and streaming HD video and the native OS to the big screen with little problem whatsoever. At 1:51, it looks like the video jumps a little bit,…