Sure, two-way video chat on mobile devices is cool, but what if you could hold a video conference call with 4, 8, even 16 people in full 720p HD resolution? You’d probably want to give it a spin, right? Well, Ittiam is at Texas Instrument’s Mobile World Congress 2011 booth to demo their multi-party P2P…
Hands-on: HTC Wildfire S – Small and stylish and packs a punch
One of HTC’s newly-announced Android smartphones is the Wildfire S, the successor to the compact and feature-packed Wildfire from last year. The iterative update to the Wildfire made its debut at Mobile World Congress 2011 at HTC’s press conference, and we had a chance to take the compact handset for a spin. If you’re in…
Sneak Peak: Waze Android widget predicts traffic for your commute
Waze, the smartphone app that uses crowd-sourced data from their network of smartphone-savvy users to determine traffic levels on highways and side-streets in your area, will soon make it even easier to check up on traffic density with a new Android widget that serves up at-a-glance traffic info. Waze was at Google’s Android booth at…
Dual-core schmual-core, NVIDIA quad-core ‘Kal-El’ processor is where it’s at
What, you didn’t think all the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core tablets and smartphones that we’ve been seeing recently were the end-all-be-all for mobile tech, did you? Tegra 2 might be the hotness right now, but you should know that, as the rest of the world races to catch up the Tegra 2 dual-core processor, NVIDIA…
HTC ChaCha in the flesh at Mobile World Congress – A Facebook phone for the typing types
The HTC ChaCha made its live appearance at Mobile World Congress here in lovely Barcelona, Spain, and it looks like a pretty neat Facebook phones for those who love typing away on physical QWERTY keyboards. Given its candybar design with the keyboard out in front, it’s a small departure from what we’ve seen in terms…
Up close and personal with the HTC Salsa – The closest thing you’ll get to a Facebook phone
The HTC Salsa was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this morning, and it looks like one of two handsets that will be the closest thing we’ll be getting to a Facebook phone. At least for now. This probably quells those rumors late last year about Facebook developing its own phone, and it…
Hands-on: HTC Desire S – Android Gingerbread, Sense 2.1, Larger Image Sensor
The HTC Desire S is one of HTC’s just-announced higher-end Android phones, slotted directly underneath the Incredible S, and we had a chance to go hands-on with the Europe-only smartphone at the HTC Mobile World Congress 2011press conference. The successor to the HTC Desire sports a similar look and feel to the original, but manages…
Hands-on: HTC Incredible S – Android Gingerbread, New Sense, Rotating Navigation Keys
HTC just unveiled to the world their new lineup of Android phones, and we’re at Mobile World Congress 2011 to check out the new wares – stuff like the just-announced HTC Incredible S, the successor to the wildly popular HTC Incredible smartphone. We had a chance to check out the Incredible S at the HTC…
Live: HTC’s MWC 2011 Press Conference – ChaCha, Salsa Facebook Android Phones, 7-inch Tablet
We’re live at HTC’s Mobile World Congress 2011 press conference, where the Taiwanese smartphone maker is expected to finally unveil their Salsa and ChaCha “Facebook phones” to the world. From the whispers we’re hearing circulating throughout the blogosphere, we’re also expecting HTC to drop a few new non-Facebook Android phones, including one model with an…
Hands-on: Kinoma Play – When third-party apps beat native app performance
When it comes to smartphone apps, there are a lot of choices, unfortunately even the best apps tend to suffer from framework-related bottlenecks and non-optimized code. You might not think that native Gallery app on your Android phone is all that slow, but take a look at what Kinoma can do with their third-party apps,…