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Microsoft’s confirmed that they’re taking Windows Phone downmarket with Tango, and this week we saw the first handset to be announced running said OS: Nokia’s Lumia 610. But there’s another device running Tango that didn’t get a lot of attention, the ZTE Orbit. Now before you get confused about Tango, we should say that there…
Nokia’s booth in the App Planet hall here at Mobile World Congress dominates a nice chunk of the space and is filled with some interesting things along the way. It’s basically everything you’d expect to see from a booth of this size, so check out the gallery below. As you’d expect, the Lumia line was…
BlackBerry wasn’t showing off too many new products this year at Mobile World Congress but that certainly didn’t stop it from having a rather impressive booth. We snapped a couple of shots, so take a gander if you want to see what RIM’s booth looked like here in Barcelona. We got a chance to play…
LG is really pushing its phone designs this year, which is really something it desperately needed to do since most of its handsets look rather drab. Along with the Vu and 4X HD, the new L-Style line comes with some nice designs and we just got a chance to play around with the new trio…
The second quarter of this year is going to be ridiculously exciting because we’re finally going to see mobile phones come out with something other than Qualcomm’s S3 Snapdragon or Samsung’s now ancient 45 nanometer Exynos chips. Qualcomm will be launching their S4 Snapdragon, which is built on a new 28 nanometer process, has a…
Last quarter (Q4 2011) something amazing happened, smartphone sales overtook PC sales for the first time. That’s great news if you’re Apple or Samsung, but horrible if you’re Intel. The chip company we all know and love for the processors that are currently inside our laptops has failed, year after year, to penetrate the mobile…
We’ve seen the Ford Sync AppLink before and believe it’s a smart way to augment your car’s experience with the technology in your pocket but this has been an exclusive experience for people in North America until now. At Mobile World Congress 2012, Ford said it is bringing the AppLink system to cars around the…
Samsung created the ridiculously huge smartphone category with the 5.3 inch Galaxy Note, and it looks like competitors are quick to catch up. LG has the 5 inch Vu, Viewsonic has the ViewPhone 5e, and now it’s Panasonic’s turn to announce their difficult to hold creation: the Eluga Power. It’s going to come with a…
In a hall filled with European handsets, Samsung had a treat in store for us North American visitors: the Galaxy S Blaze 4G for T-Mobile. The Blaze is a mid-level offering that’ll appeal to feature phone owners and current smartphone owners looking to save a buck. It won’t compete with the HTC One X, but…
Samsung didn’t hold a press event this year at Mobile World Congress, but that didn’t stop the Korean handset maker from introducing a series of tablets and phones. One phone that piqued our interest was the Samsung Galaxy Beam, an Android handset with a 4-inch WVGA display, 1GHz dual-core processor and an integrated pico projector. The…