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TCL, which is the owner of the Alcatel brand, has great plans for the future. During Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company has demoed its smartbook concept to Engadget. The 11-inch MacBook Air-like laptop has no brains of its own; it rather relies on the hardware of a smartphone to effectively transform it into…
WhatsApp is gearing towards adding voice calls to its popular messaging app/service. Speaking with TNW, the company’s representatives said that this feature will be unveiled at some point in the second quarter of the year. As I’m writing this, WhatsApp has more than 450 million users, 320 million of which are considered active every month.…
Aside from the Android-powered Nokia X range, the Finnish company also unveiled two low-cost feature phones – Nokia 220 and Nokia Asha 230. The first of the two is said to be Nokia’s most affordable Internet-connected phone ever, selling for €29 before taxes and subsidies. It has a 2.4-inch QVGA (240×320) screen, 2-megapixel camera, FM…
Asus isn’t announcing anything exciting at Mobile World Congress; all we have are two new Fonepad models – one with 4G LTE connectivity support, and another that can take two SIM cards. Aside from rocking a 4G radio, the Fonepad 7 LTE (model number ME372CL) remains the same under the hood. Its specs include a…
We knew we wouldn’t be seeing the successor to the HTC One at MWC 2014,with HTC opting instead to unveil a pair of mid-range devices, the HTC Desire 816 and the Desire 610. The 816 is being touted as HTC’s “flagship mid-range” smartphone, with the device touting many of the HTC One’s features such as…
ZTE has unveiled the Grand Memo II LTE at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This is not a high-end phablet, but a mid-end one, rocking Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 quad-core chip, 6-inch 720p HD screen, and Android 4.4 KitKat with ZTE’s own MiFavor 2.3 UI on top. In addition, the 7.2mm-thin phone has a 13-megapixel rear…
Well folks, the day has come. No longer will you have to move *anything* from your phone to computer — cause you’ll have enough storage on the phone itself. You’ll just need one thing – SanDisk’s new 128GB microSD card. The new memory card can “take” 16 hours of full HD video, 7,500 songs, 3,200…
Lenovo unveiled three new phones in Barcelona — Lenovo S860, S850 and S660 — none of which we would describe as super-phone. Instead this trio is targeting mid-end of the market. All of them come with dual-SIM capability, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, 3G + Wi-Fi connectivity, and should start selling from June of this year.…
BlackBerry announced that BBM for Windows Phone will be available this summer. The IM client will be preloaded with Nokia X Android-smartphone, whereas Lumia owners will have to wait for another couple of months. “BBM continues to grow in popularity as millions of people use our mobile platform for chatting and connecting with friends or…
Intel can’t miss the mobile revolution; it just gotta stay in this market if it wants to grow in the future. Despite struggling to compete with the likes of Qualcomm and MediaTek (let alone handset makers which make their own processors), Intel is pushing forward. At Mobile World Congress, they’ve unveiled two new 64-bit chips…