Gamin-Asus had announced their second nüvifone late last week before Mobile World Congress, and we got some time to play with it here at the show. Although there’s been a saddening lack of new Android devices here at the show, Asus has already confirmed that they’ll be doing something with it this year – the…
Samsung’s Booth at Mobile World Congress
Samsung stuck to their usual conference-going ways with a huge and brightly colored booth at the Mobile World Congress’s Fira Barcelona convention center. The Korean cellphone manufacturer, now the second-largest mobile phone maker in the world, announced their Samsung Omnia HD earlier this week. So, it stood the test of reason that Samsung would be…
HTC TouchFLO 3D walkthrough video – New and improved!
Let it never be said that HTC rests on their laurels. With the HTC Touch Pro 2 and HTC Touch Diamond 2’s official announcement earlier this week, HTC is pushing ahead in the Windows Mobile smartphone market that they helped shape over the past several years. But, rather than push out new hardware with the…
Shazam Partners With Samsung for Music ID on New Beat Handsets
Samsung announced two new Beat-series handsets earlier this week, the DJ and Disc, but one feature that we hadn’t heard about was music identification through Shazam. Although the app is available separately on a bunch of platforms now, it will be preloaded on both the DJ M7600 and the Disc M6710. It’s a match that…
Live from Mobile World Congress – BlackBerry Booth Tour
The BlackBerry folks, which is to say Research In Motion (RIM), had an impressive booth decked out with LED banners and a funky-cool booth design. We werent’ going to let some little thing like RIM’s lack of any new product announcements keep us from exploring the retro-looking booth and giving our readers a look at…
Toshiba booth tour from Mobile World Congress
Let’s take a look at Toshiba’s booth at the Mobile World Congress in beautiful Barcelona, Spain. Toshiba’s presence was understated, to be sure. The electronics maker wasn’t showcasing much in the way of mobile phones, just a single Windows Mobile smartphone – the Toshiba TG01. But, as the first mobile phone to take advantage of…
Yahoo! Launches Widget Platform that Just Might Offend Apple
Yahoo! has announced a new widget platform called the Yahoo! Mobile App for Smartphones. Huh. Look familiar? Due to go public at the end of May on BlackBerry, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile, and Nokia devices. A slightly different one for the iPhone will be available for the end of March. By using an…
Beating up on the i-mate 810-F – Ruggedness redefined
I-mate’s brand-new 810-F “Hummer” smartphone really lives up to its nickname. Like the military-tough Humvee (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)), the i-mate 810-F can take a beating and keep on… calling your friends. Seriously, this thing is one tough sucker. I-mate really wanted to hammer home the 810-F Hummer’s military-spec ruggedness with a live…
Sony Ericsson Idou – Hands-on video and pictures!
The Sony Ericsson Idou is still riding the hype-wave generated by Sony Ericsson’s PR team, and with good reason – the Sony Ericsson Idou smartphone boasts a class-leading 12-megapixel autofocus camera, GPS, WiFi, and the Symbian Foundation OS. As a smartphone, the Symbian Foundation OS is expected to deliver all the functionality you could want,…
Sony Ericsson booth tour from the Fira Barcelona
Sony Ericsson’s booth at Mobile World Congress wasn’t as big as we remember it being last year, but was nevertheless impressively stocked with new hardware from the Japanese-Swedish cellphone maker. The newly unveiled Sony Ericsson Idou 12-megapixel smartphone was on-deck as the highlight Sony Ericsson’s Barcelona appearance was the. With an industry-leading 12 megapixel camera…