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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What, you didn’t think all the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core tablets and smartphones that we’ve been seeing recently were the end-all-be-all for mobile tech, did you? Tegra 2 might be the hotness right now, but you should know that, as the rest of the world races to catch up the Tegra 2 dual-core processor, NVIDIA…
It’s not entirely surprising to learn that Android has taken off in a big way, but Eric Schmidt threw down some numbers at Mobile World Congress during a keynote today that is surprising nonetheless. Given the number of smartphones and tablets that support the Google operating system, it’s no surprise that it is quickly becoming…
There’s been a terrible amount of confusion regarding HP’s statement regarding webOS on personal computers. Many eager to read between the lines, trying to find something there that wasn’t, thought HP was going to ship personal computers with webOS as the main operating system. The Seattle Times interviewed HP CTO Phil McKinney to find out…
I’m sure you’ve already checked out our hands-on video of the just-announced HP TouchPad webOS tablet but we couldn’t resist getting another taste of the webOS tablet at Mobile World Congress. The HP TouchPad webOS tablet has a 9.7-inch display, a 1.2-GHz dual-core SnapDragon processor from Qualcomm, 512 MB of RAM, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera…
GSMA used its Big Show to unveil some cool numbers regarding GSM-based technologies adoption. We crunched the numbers to bring you only the key points: HSPA mobile broadband connections have increased by 100% year-on-year, passing 400 million globally. More than 17 million HSPA connections are being added each month around the world, compared to nearly…