We told ya’ Glu Mobile is preparing to launch games for the first Honeycomb tablets and voila – they are (almost) here. The mobile gaming company is using the Big Show in Barcelona to unveil the first games developed specifically for the Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform and optimized on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile super…
HTC Facebook phones coming to AT&T
HTC just introduced the Salsa and ChaCha at Mobile World Congress 2011 and these Facebook phones will be coming to AT&T soon, according to the carrier. The Salsa and ChaCha can be called Facebook phones because these Android-powered devices have a dedicated button for the social network. The idea is that whenever you’re looking at…
NewBay launches LifeCache Digital Vault music and video cloud service for operators and device makers; Teams-up with LG
Digital content services provider NewBay launched LifeCache Digital Vault 2.4 to provide music, photo and video cloud services for operators and device makers. LifeCache Digital Vault allows users to go beyond proprietary music clients like iTunes and access their image, music and video files from anywhere. In order to take advantage of the service, users…
Sierra Wireless unveils two new 4G mobile hotspots
Sierra Wireless used the Mobile World Congress to introduce two new 4G mobile hotspots – the AirCard 753S and AirCard 754S, both of which can connect up to five WiFi enabled devices simultaneously to the internet. The former sings along Dual-Carrier HSPA+ whereas the latter with LTE networks. Both products are scheduled for commercial shipments…
Nuance Flext9 four-in-one keypad app for Android hits Europe
Nuance is bringing its multi-modal FlexT9 app for Android to Europe with support for six languages, including US and UK English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The FlexT9 combines various Nuance products like Dragon Dictation, T9 Trace, T9 Write and XT9, giving consumers ability to choose how they want to communicate with their friends and…
Synaptics Series 4 Capacitive Touchscreen Works with Stylus, Through Gloves
At Mobile World Congress 2011, touchscreen manufacturer and researcher Synaptics have been showing off their new Series 4 ClearPad touchscreen, which not only shaves off a precious millimeter of thickness by being built right into the LCD display (as opposed to being a separate layer on top of it, like usual), it can also work…
Android Ice Cream Sandwich to bridge Gingerbread and Honeycomb
This won’t be much of a surprise if you’ve been following this space lately, but during a keynote at MWC, Eric Schmidt confirmed that the next version of Android will merge Gingerbread and Honeycomb together. After we heard that Honeycomb was indeed just for tablet devices, many people (including myself) thought that Google was consciously…
Motorola, Verizon not excited about Windows Phone 7
While Microsoft is trying to propel interest in Windows Phone 7 by talking about the looming update (check out our video of it) and signing a deal with the world’s largest handset maker in the world, not everyone in the mobile industry is bullish about the smartphone platform. Executives from Verizon and Motorola downplayed Windows…
Video: Windows Phone 7 update – multitasking, IE9, SkyDrive
Microsoft talked about its Windows Phone 7 update at a keynote in Mobile World Congress and the company was kind enough to give us the same demonstration that it delivered there. Currently, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices can’t do true multitasking, as apps hibernate in the background and wake up when you go back to…
HTC Flyer, Desire S, Wildfire S, and Salsa get ‘First look’ videos
If you missed our live blog for HTC’s new handset lineup, you’ve got some catching up to do. However, if you’d like it short and sweet, HTC has provided a handful of “First Look” videos for most of the lineup. Here we have videos for the Flyer, Desire S, Wildfire S, Salsa, and one that…