Mobile World Congress is definitely the right place to launch a new high-end touchscreen handset, and Sony Ericsson knows how to play this game to a “t.” We hit the Opium Cinema in Barcelona, home of the Mobile World Congress 2009, thinking we were going to put hands on some of Sony Ericsson’s new handsets.…
Stantum to demo 4.3-inch Multi-Touch Development Kit at Mobile World Congress
Multi-touch sensing technology provider Stantum Technologies is introducing a new version of its SMK series of multi-touch demo, evaluation and development kits — which enable vendors and OEMs to develop their own multi-touch applications. Featuring a 4.3-inch touch panel, the new version will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (Hall 2.1, Stand 2.1F67) in…
Telmap brings its offering to MIDs
Even though we still wait to see an uptake in Mobile Internet Devices (MID) adoption, that doesn’t stop Telmap to bring its location-aware software to the platform based on the Intel Atom processor and Linux-based Moblin. Guess the idea here is to “go multi-platform” no matter what. This is not to say I’m against MIDs…
iSkin Shows Off Bluetooth iPhone Dock Adapter at MWC
iSkin, the guys who put out those iPhone cases a few weeks ago, were showing off a very cool Bluetooth adapter for iPod and iPhone docks at Mobile World Congress. This allows Stereo Bluetooth-capable handsets to stream music to iPhone docks – not entirely dissimilar to the BlackBerry Bluetooth Stereo Gateway. Pricetag for the iSkin…
Samsung Launches T-Mobile Memoir, Endorsed by Pretty Girls
Behold, (no, not that one, wrong Samsung device) the glory of Helena Christensen’s jaw-slackening beauty hath declared the Samsung Memoir the lord of all cameraphones, rendering all lesser 8-megapixel camera-bearing devices impotent with lust. As if all that teasing on T-Mobile’s newsletter wasn’t enough to get your average gadget pron geek riled up. Samsung has…
IntoMobile live from Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona!
It’s that time of year again. The IntoMobile team is gearing up to bring you, our dear readers, live coverage from the Fira de Barcelona convention center at the Mobile World Congress. We’re looking for big things from manufacturers across the mobile spectrum, especially in the touchscreen and cameraphone segments. The IntoMobile team will be…
Samsung to debut Omnia HD at Mobile World Congress!
Samsung looks to be planning some really big things for Mobile World Congress. We’ve already seen the Korean cellphone maker unveiling their high-end touchscreen slider in the Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300, but it looks like Samsung has another high-end beauty in store for convention-goers tomorrow. Plastered on the side of one of the Fira de Barcelona’s…
If you’re hoping for a 12-megapixel Samsung cameraphone at MWC… don’t
You can go ahead and stop holding your breath now. Despite varied speculation hinting at a 12-megapixel cameraphone from Samsung rearing its head at Mobile World Congress, word on the street is that Samsung won’t be bringing any mega-megapixel cameraphones to Barcelona. Telecoms Korea cites “a source familiar with Samsung’s internal marketing plans” in their…
i-mate 810-F aka Hummer shows its face
i-mate will most likely introduce a new device at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The so called Hummer will wear “810-F” badge and will sport such things as Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard edition, HSDPA support, QVGA screen, GPS, WiFi, full QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, and a 624MHz CPU. As always, the trick is in…
Three handset trends that you can expect to see at MWC, but which are becoming irrelevant
Well this year will be the first year that I am not going to MWC for a while (which I’m a bit sad about – it’s a good show), but the IntoMobile team will have reporters on-site – and they’ll be paying special attention to the devices on show. In fact, some vendors have…