Samsung unveiled a new member of its Bada family of devices – Wave 578. At first glance, it looks like the Wave 2 (Wave 528), but there’s more about it under the hood. We’re talking about the first NFC-enabled Bada product that should allow contactless payments and related services like door lock/unlock. Specs wise, the…
Hands-on: Intel MeeGo tablet at Mobile World Congress
So, when Nokia decided to back Windows Phone 7, it looked like MeeGo was going to suffer a not-so-noble death. Well, don’t tell that to Intel, as the company is still planning to support the platform and it showed off a developer reference tablet at Mobile World Congress 2011. I hate to be super critical…
SPB Software, Spatial View team-up on glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI
Mobile software developer SPB Software is teaming-up with Spatial View, a pioneer in stereo 3D auto-stereoscopic technologies, to showcase the first glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI for Android. The new software apparently comes with “full navigation capabilities,” featuring an all-encompassing home screen with animated 3D widgets, 3D folders and customizable panels in stereoscopic 3D. I…
BOLT Mobile Browser 2.5 adds Facebook video, geolocation and HTML5 support
Opera Mini’s arch-rival Bitstream announced a new version (2.5) of its BOLT mobile web browser. This latest release comes with few new features and enhancements, including: Geolocation support – allowing GPS-enabled phones to pass latitude and longitude information to location-enabled websites through the browser. Facebook Video support – which comes in addition to other popular…
Hands-on: LG G Slate (Optimus Pad) at Mobile World Congress 2011
While LG officially announced the G Slate at CES 2011, we didn’t get a chance to see the thing in person … until now, that is. We got our hands on the LG G Slate, which will also be known as the Optimus Pad, and the 9-inch tablet may be something special. The company made…
BlackBerry PlayBook HSPA+ and LTE Flavours Announced
Today at Mobile World Congress 2011, RIM announced two new 4G-ish varieties of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. In the second half of the year, there will be one PlayBook that runs on LTE and Wi-Fi, and another that runs on HSPA+ and Wi-Fi, in addition to the WiMAX version headed to Sprint. The rest of…
Motorola adds new social and media sharing features to Motoblur
Motorola confirmed that it is rolling out a new version of Motoblur for its upcoming Android handsets. The latest version of Motorola Blur will include a new social and location-aware service from Aloqa as well as new photo sharing and media syncing components. These new features can be summarized as follows: Aloqa: Motorola acquired this…
Motorola XOOM to land in Europe this spring
Motorola confirmed today at Mobile World Congress that its XOOM tablet will land in European markets starting in Q2 2011. The high-end tablet device will be available in both a 3G/WiFi version and a WiFi-only version. The XOOM is a premier Android tablet that features a 1GHz dual-core processor, a 10.1-inch widescreen HD display with 1280×800…
Motorola PRO is the DROID PRO for Europe
Motorola is bringing the DROID PRO to Europe. Called Motorola PRO, it’s basically same as Verizon Wireless’ baby with the only difference between the two being in the mobile radio used. Instead of singing along CDMA networks, European version is made to work with GSM-based ones, supporting the fast HSPA data. Rest of the specs…
Flash Player 10.2 with Stage Video confirmed for Honeycomb tablets, BlackBerry PlayBook
In its “Strong mobile adoption of Flash Player” press release, Adobe said that the new release of Flash Player with performance advancements will be available for computers and also for Android Honeycomb tablets and BlackBerry Tablet OS (PlayBook). The main new thing of version 10.2 is called Stage Video, which delivers much improved video performance…