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HTC announced its new handset lineup at Mobile World Congress today and, as expected, the Taiwanese manufacturer introduced two Facebook-centric handsets. This pair was spotted in a late-breaking leak that hit the wire Monday and now we have all the nitty-gritty detail on the touchscreen Salsa and the QWERTY-packing ChaCha. Rather than keep you waiting, here…
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…
HTC kicked off its press event at Mobile World Congress by announcing the HTC Flyer. As expected, the Flyer is a 7-inch tablet with a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor, 32GB of storage, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and HSPA+ connectivity. Sleek in design, the tablet includes an all-aluminum housing. Harkening back to the days…
T-Mobile’s fastest HSPA+ 4G handset, the Galaxy S 4G, is both familiar and new all at the same time. The only difference between this device and the original Galaxy S and the Galaxy S 4G is, well, the 4G part, but that doesn’t mean there’s less to love about it. We finally got some hands…
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,…
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…
Verizon Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent are showing off multi-player gaming over 4G LTE, which is now live in parts of the United States. The appeal is that the games are being played globally, so users can play with or against each other in real time all over the world. Verizon and Alcatel-Lucent were showing off games…
Marvell announced what looks as a super-promising product – PXA978 single-chip solution that features 3G UMTS and China’s TD SCDMA standards with HSPA support. It is said this is the industry’s first such product which in addition to being able to provide fast mobile data in China and the rest of the world, also includes…
Microsoft filled in some gaps in its upcoming plans for Windows Phone 7. The Redmond company confirmed that the mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 will debut on the platform in the second half of 2011. IE9 Mobile will support the same standards (HTML5, etc.) and include the same hardware accelerated graphics as the PC…
Texas Instruments is making it a little easier to develop software for Android with what it’s claiming to be the first development platform for Android. TI is trying to make it easier for manufacturers to develop software with the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks, which will allow software that enables smartphones to act as…