Earlier this week, Motorola announced the Quench (or Cliq XT, as it will be known in the U.S.), and we got a chance to play with it here at Mobile World Congress. As you might already know, the Quench packs a 3.1-inch OLED capacitive touchscreen, Android 1.5 with MotoBLUR, rocks a 5 megapixel camera with…
Orange launches 2 EUR for 2 MB Travel Data Daily Roaming Tariff
Orange is full of news at the Mobile World Congress, but now I want to focus on a single news item that deals with roaming, as it’s the issue that affects all of us when travelling (our trip to Mobile World Congress, included). The carrier used the big event to launch a daily data roaming…
Qtel to bring mobile money services across markets it serves
The Qtel Group announced plans to make mobile money services available for customers across its international operations, covering 17 countries and more than 53 million customers. The company wants a piece of the lucrative remittances from the Gulf region to Asian countries, but also to serve other mobile phone users in the region. In that…
Vopium now offer its mobile VoIP/Instant Messaging service as a white label solution
Denmark-based Vopium announced that it has started offering its Global Mobile VoIP and Messaging Service as a white label solution. The company also said that the first partner will be unveiled shortly. Those not familiar should know that Vopium offers easy to use (and affordable, since it’s VoIP) international mobile communication service that works from…
ZTE to make Movistar-branded handsets for Telefonica’s Latin American markets
ZTE will deliver a range of Movistar-branded phones to Telefonica for 12 Latin American markets during this year, starting in the second quarter. More precisely, the Movistar-branded handsets will be available in Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Nicaragua. Both companies have been involved in the design of…
Video demo of HTC’s updated Sense UI
HTC never rests on laurels that they may or may not think are good enough at any given time, and HTC Sense is no exception. The smartphone maker’s Sense UI creates a custom homescreen that replaces the vanilla Android homescreen with all kinds of widgets that put important information at your fingertips. With the unveiling…
Video: Playing with the Android-powered Samsung i8520 Beam (Halo) and its pico projector
When it comes to phones with pico projectors, we’re used to seeing mobile phones with unsightly projector add-ons or, at the very best, bulky projector housings that are seemingly slapped onto the top of the phone. That all changed when we put hands on the Samsung i8520 Beam (Halo). The Samsung i8520 isn’t just an…
Video: Hands-On with Toshiba TG02 and K01 at Mobile World Congress 2010
So, you might have heard that Toshiba had two new phones announced for Mobile World Congress: the TG02 and K01, both slim, wide, sexy, Windows Mobile, and powered by a 1 Ghz processor. Both Will and I managed to get some playtime with the devices, and although the K01 slider didn’t have any proper software…
A look at how the HTC Legend’s aluminum unibody takes shape
HTC’s booth at Mobile World Congress 2010 wasn’t all that big this year, but it did have one incredibly interesting display that we just had to show you – the HTC Legend‘s aluminum unibody. We had a chance to put hands on the device at the show, and we can’t say enough about how striking…
A quick look at the Motorola Devour from Mobile World Congress 2010
You might remember the Motorola Devour from Motorola’s Superbowl commercial, where Megan Fox is befriending the sharp-angled, metallic Android phone in the bathtub. The Devour is one of Motorola’s latest Android phones and it packs a decent punch underneath its stylishly high-tech exterior. Available on Verizon later this year, the Motorola Devour won’t break the…