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We’re just about wrapped up with Mobile World Congress 2012 and the largest mobile-focused conference was filled with major announcements from nearly every company. Not everything was a home run though, so let’s take a look at who really stood out from the crowd. Winners Android Google’s Android was the star of Mobile World Congress,…
Don’t lie, Android fans. So far, sales of Android tablets suck. Apple is selling millions upon millions of iPads while Android hardware vendors scratching their heads wondering why their tablets aren’t selling even remotely as well. Sure the software was buggy at first and prices are often not where they should be, but things have…
Dolphin Browser keeps getting better. Like it isn’t already straightforward to use, the company wants to make it even easier. Thanks to the new Dolphin Sonar capability, now you can browse the web and search for stuff on Internet using nothing but your voice. Simply tap the microphone icon at the bottom of the screen…
Guys from SwiftKey are having a time of their life at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. They’re out with an SDK that will expand their reach to even more users, who in turn will be able to type faster on their touchscreen devices. The idea is simple – rather than offering it as an app,…
Aside from the new powerful Ascend D series devices, Huawei also launched another Android smartphone at Mobile World Congress – G300. It’s a mid-ranger with metal-clad casing and specs that include a 4-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera on the back, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, dual microphones for crystal-clear call quality, along with all of the…
Motorola may not have any new phones to show at the Mobile World Congress, but that doesn’t mean it’s going out of business (at least not yet). The American handset maker launched a new trade-in to help businesses switch to Android. Under the scheme, Moto will take business users’ old smartphone, offering up to $200…
Not sure why every handset maker thinks it needs a custom Android UI, but hey – that’s the just the world works these days. Sure there were times when pure Android experience wasn’t good enough, but Ice cream Sandwich pretty much rocks even in its basic form. ZTE is joining this (crazy?) trend with its…
Samsung keeps updating its S Pen SDK, allowing developers to make apps that run on the Galaxy Note devices. Version 2.0 of the SDK is out, packing a number of improvements over the previous release (version 1.5), including: SCanvasView Class inherited from CanvasView has been added – so that developers can animate their drawings and…
StumbleUpon is one of the companies selected by Google to show off its app at the big Android booth in Barcelona. The web discovery service used the opportunity to launch a new version of its application for Android smartphones and tablets, as well as iOS-based devices. The main new thing of the updated Android app…
Yandex, the new owner of SPB Software, is using Mobile World Congress to launch SPB Yandex Shell 3D for Android tablets. Similarly to the smartphone version, the tablet UI also comes with glasses-free 3D UI, allowing interested mobile operators and OEMs to differentiate their products from the competition, which may or may not have its…