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MWC 2009: Global Mobile Awards 2009

The winners of the 14th Annual Global Mobile Awards were announced last week at a gala dinner, at the National Palace in Barcelona. One of the highlights of the Mobile World Congress, the ceremony has been hosted by comedy star Michael McIntyre. This year more than 450 companies submitted their entries in various cat...

27 February 2009
12:01 GMT

MWC 2009: Garmin-Asus Round-Up

Asus, one of the IT industry leaders offering everything from PC components to complete solutions including notebooks, desktops, smartphones, PDAs, broadband communications products, LCD monitors and wireless applications, started a collaboration with Garmin, the global leader in satellite navigation. Created at the ...

26 February 2009
12:01 GMT

MWC 2009: Sony Ericsson Round-Up

One of the most crowded booths at the Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona was Sony Ericsson's. The company showcased a medium number of devices, in different stages of development. Obviously, what made the headline was the first handset to feature a 12 Megapixel camera, Sony Ericsson Idou (pronounced '...

25 February 2009
12:01 GMT

MWC 2009: Samsung Round-Up

Samsung, the South-Korean phone manufacturer, finds itself in a fierce fight against LG Mobile division for the number 3 spot on the handset market. Thus, it could not miss the chance to amaze at Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona, through its new devices. Some had been leaked before, but others came as a real ...

24 February 2009
12:52 GMT

MWC 2009: Gigabyte Round-Up

Gigabyte is one of the most prolific manufacturers in the computer motherboard industry, but lately is started to build up its name in the PDA phone department. While the company is not renowned for its good-looking devices, it has become a fact that the Taiwanese company’s PDA products are among the best in te...

23 February 2009
11:01 GMT

Samsung GT-S1100 Watch Phone Caught on Camera

It seems that LG Electronics is not the only mobile phone maker to work on the development of watch-shaped handsets. Another company that has plans in that area would be Samsung, which was caught on camera at the Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona with a nice wrist phone dubbed GT-S1100. Unfortunately, the...

20 February 2009
08:40 GMT

Samsung BEATDJ and Samsung BEATDISC Unveiled

Korean mobile phone maker Samsung came to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week with brand new handsets, among which we could see two music-oriented handsets, namely the Samsung BEATDJ and Samsung BEATDISC, both of them part of the company's BEAT Edition series. The new devices include not only great ...

20 February 2009
03:58 GMT

MWC 2009: LG Round-Up

One of the most prolific handset manufactures, LG, presented a wide array of hot devices at their MWC 2009 booth, in Barcelona, and the company's head display at this year's Mobile Congress was obviously the LG KM900 Arena, officially announced last week. Featuring the fresh 3D S class user interface, LG KM...

19 February 2009
10:55 GMT

i-mate Unveils New Handsets at MWC

i-mate came to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with some interesting new devices, all of them powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. Among the new handsets, we can count the i-mate 810-F, a ruggedized PDA-phone that has been unveiled before the MWC show, as well as two new handsets, both ...

19 February 2009
10:41 GMT

Gigabyte Unveils Its g-Smart MS820 and S1200

Gigabyte is yet another company to come to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year with brand new touchscreen devices. The g-Smart MS820 and S1200 are the two 3G-enabled PocketPCs the company has unveiled at the show, and they both sport Wi-Fi connectivity, Office Mobile and fancy UI plug-ins. The g-Smart M...

19 February 2009
04:58 GMT

MWC 2009: HTC Round-Up

I was surprised to find out that HTC, the leading Windows Mobile-based smartphone manufacturer, only managed to come out with three devices, none of them impressive enough. Obviously, following the mild success that G1 had in the past, HTC continues the Android-based series with a new G1 smartphone that features almo...

18 February 2009
12:01 GMT

Nokia Awarded for Outstanding Environmental Contribution

The Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been awarded at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the GSMA's first award for Outstanding Environmental Contribution, which recognizes its efforts and environmental actions. At the same time, the company also received the award for the Best Mobile Interne...

18 February 2009
10:42 GMT

A New Solar-Powered Handset Spotted in the Wild

Digicel, the Pan-Caribbean mobile network operator, announced that it would start selling a low-cost mobile phone that is solar-powered. The new handset, dubbed Coral-200-Solar, is manufactured by ZTE, and uses proprietary technology from the innovator Intivation, a Dutch-based company.Digicel has been offering to it...

18 February 2009
10:12 GMT

Samsung Valencia Seen at MWC

A new Samsung handset has been spotted at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona these days, dubbed Samsung Valencia. The interesting fact about this device is that it hasn't been showcased by the phone maker, as anyone would expect, but it can be seen on Microsoft's area, where the latest Windows Mobi...

18 February 2009
04:33 GMT

LG Unveils GM730 Touchscreen WM-Based Phone

LG Electronics came with quite a few handsets at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, among which we could spot the LG GM730, a new handset based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, also including LG’s own 3D S-Class User Interface.According to the mobile phone maker, it managed to in...

18 February 2009
04:02 GMT

ASUS Shows Windows 7 Eee PCs at MWC

ASUS has recently announced that it would be showcasing some of its Eee PC models, using Microsoft's Beta version of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. The purpose of the demonstration, which will take place at the Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona between February 16 and 19, is to provide the compa...

18 February 2009
03:37 GMT

MWC 2009: Nokia Round-Up

Nokia made quite an impressive appearance at the 2009 edition of the annual Mobile World Congress event, held in Barcelona. Apart from the five handsets that were officially launched at MWC, Nokia made an announcement regarding its new application store called OVI. Ovi Store intends to offer users all previous servic...

17 February 2009
12:33 GMT

NVIDIA Announces Tegra Support for Android

NVIDIA announced a partnership with Google and the Open Handset Alliance for the development of Android with the Tegra series of ‘computer-on-a-chip’ processors. The company expects its support for Android to offer manufacturers and operators an easy way to use its Tegra processor on future mobile phones ...

17 February 2009
11:33 GMT

Yahoo! Mobile Launched Today at MWC

Yahoo! announced today that it would soon launch its new highly-personalized Yahoo! Mobile service. The fresh Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile web, on the Apple iPhone as an application for the device, as well as an app for handsets from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, not to mention sma...

17 February 2009
10:45 GMT

Acer Unveils Four New Handsets

Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market around the world, announced the launch of four Pocket PCs, falling into three groups, according to what the company says would consist with the consumer's needs and views over the mobile market. Acer targeted its new devices at various mobile Internet usage prefere...

17 February 2009
10:07 GMT

LG Showcases the World's First Transparent Phone

LG Electronics, a global leading provider of mobile phones and technology solutions, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the first handset in the world to feature a transparent design, the new LG-GD900. The product comes as proof of the maker's commitment to deliver innovative aesthetic concepts ...

17 February 2009
07:03 GMT

ArcSoft Unveils PowerMobia for Android

ArcSoft, Inc., a worldwide leading provider of innovative mobile multimedia technologies and applications, announced today the launch of its ArcSoft PowerMobia for Android, a software-based multimedia solution that has been designed for Google's operating system for mobile phones. ArcSoft's PowerMobia for A...

17 February 2009
06:35 GMT

MySpace Mobile Announces Redesigned Website

MySpace, the leading social portal in the world, announced today the launch of a new optimized and more integrated mobile Website that would become available this week for its 20 million worldwide members. At the same time, MySpace also revealed plans to develop new applications for Nokia on the S60 web runtime envir...

17 February 2009
06:17 GMT

SEVEN Brings Email Services to Android

SEVEN, a worldwide leading provider of mobile email and messaging software solutions, announced today that its award-winning mobile messaging applications would be available for the Android platform as well. SEVEN comes to Google's OS with both personal and business mobile email, while also offering calendar and...

17 February 2009
05:45 GMT

LG Officially Unveils ARENA with 3D S-Class UI

LG Electronics, a worldwide leading mobile phone maker, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the new LG ARENA (LG-KM900), a multimedia phone that includes a full-load of features, able to deliver enhanced audio and video experience through its new and intuitive 3D S-Class User Interface (UI). “W...

17 February 2009
05:02 GMT

HTC Magic (ex G2) Comes to Vodafone

The British mobile giant Vodafone has inked after all a deal with HTC for the distribution of the next Android-Powered handset, which will come under the name of HTC Magic (previous version was G1, and the new handset was expected to come as G2). Moreover, the highly-expected device from the Taiwanese handset maker H...

17 February 2009
04:33 GMT

LG's Touch Watch Phone Gets Showcased

LG Electronics, a leading mobile phone solutions provider, will demonstrate the world’s first market-ready Touch Watch Phone and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new LG-GD910 comes with 3G Video Telephony (VT) service and GSM Network capabilities, and was first announced at the Consumer Electronics S...

17 February 2009
04:04 GMT

TI's Mobile-Phone Platform Enables 1080p Video Recording

One of the most interesting new technologies unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the mobile-phone platform from Texas Instruments, capable of recording 1080p video, shooting 20-megapixel images, and playing MP3 files for as long as a week on one battery charge. The new OMAP 4 platform uses ARM'...

17 February 2009
03:44 GMT

Nokia N86 8MP, a New Imaging Handset for Enthusiasts

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced at the Mobile World Congress a new mobile imaging device that combines the wide-angle Carl Zeiss optics and an 8-megapixel sensor, the Nokia N86 8MP. The new device comes with both photo snapping and video capture capabilities, while also sporting high-speed connectivity. Ac...

17 February 2009
03:09 GMT

LG Electronics Announces New Symbian Handset

LG Electronics showcased at the Mobile World Congress its fourth S60 on Symbian device, dubbed KT770. The new handset features S60 5th Edition on Symbian OS 9.4 and comes with a slider form factor and a numeric keypad. According to the company, the new handset includes a 5-megapixel camera, along with a 2.8-inch touc...

17 February 2009
02:48 GMT

Samsung Demonstrates the Omnia HD Device

Korean mobile phone maker Samsung unveiled on the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, one of the top-of-the-line handsets to run under the S60 5th Edition platform, namely the Omnia HD, also known as the i8910. The main focus with this brand new device is on the HD and multimedia capabilities....

17 February 2009
02:02 GMT

Microsoft Pushes Mobile Phones in the Cloud

Microsoft is pushing mobile phones into the Cloud via Windows Live. The Mobile World Congress 2009 proved to be the fertile soil for the Redmond company to ink a variety of agreements with members of the telecommunications industry, designed to connect mobile phones with the Windows Live suite of applications and ser...

16 February 2009
12:10 GMT

Windows Mobile the Primary Smartphone Platform for LG

Windows Mobile would be the primary smartphone platform for LG going forward, Microsoft announced at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona on February 16, 2009. The Redmond company and LG have deepened their alliance on the foundation of a memorandum of understanding signed on Novembers 3, 2008. As a direct con...

16 February 2009
11:45 GMT

HTC Unveils Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2

HTC Corporation, a leading developer of mobile phones, unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two new flagship devices, namely the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2. The new handsets include both simplicity and style, complemented by an intuitive user interface, being able to provide a combinati...

16 February 2009
11:27 GMT

New Windows OS: Windows Mobile 6.5

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not the only operating systems cooking over at Microsoft that have reached a standard of quality sufficient for the general public to get a taste of. In this context, the Redmond company has showcased Windows mobile 6.5 at the Mobile World Congress 2009. Microsoft Chief Execut...

16 February 2009
11:13 GMT

Windows Mobile 6.5 Showcased at MWC

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer, along with mobile partners HTC, LG and Orange, unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the newest version of Microsoft's operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5. Handsets that will be based on the new platform will be able to deliver new user-friendly software and...

16 February 2009
10:39 GMT

Samsung Joins the Development of LTE Networks

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) announced today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress tradeshow and exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, that it plans to participate in the ng Connect Program. As many of you might already know, the ng Connect Program is a new multi-industry initiative meant to enhance the ...

16 February 2009
09:57 GMT

Huawei Unveils Its First Android Handset

Huawei Technologies, a leading provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions all around the world, unveiled today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, its first Android-powered smart phone. The new smart device is expected to become available for purchase sometime in the third qua...

16 February 2009
09:27 GMT

Adobe Brings Reflowable PDF to Mobile Devices

A new move from Adobe is designed to make PDF documents play nice with mobile devices. In this regard, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe introduced the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, promising an evolved experience when it comes to the way in which mobile devices download, manage, and display PDF content. The softwa...

16 February 2009
09:14 GMT

SanDisk Announces the Service Delivery Card

SanDisk Corporation, a worldwide leading provider of flash storage cards, announced today, at the Mobile World Congress, its SanDisk Service Delivery Card (SDC), a custom memory solution that delivers high storage capacity. The solution is based on a microSD card and has been specifically developed for Mobile Network...

16 February 2009
08:54 GMT

Sony Ericsson Launches New Panels for Xperia X1

Sony Ericsson unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress new panels for its Xperia X1, meant to offer consumers new ways to personalize the content of their devices. Last week, the mobile phone maker announced other panels as well, and the new additions should enhance even more the user experience on the Xperia X1 t...

16 February 2009
08:36 GMT

Adobe and Nokia Pour $10 million into Cross-Device Flash-Based Runtime

In an effort to take its Flash technology beyond the desktop where it is already ubiquitous, Adobe has announced fresh financial resources for the Open Screen Project. Together with Nokia, Adobe is pouring no less than $10 million into the project it fathered which aims to deliver a singular user experience across de...

16 February 2009
07:44 GMT

New Flash Player for Windows Mobile

The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the stage where Adobe launched a new Flash player tailored to Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 operating systems. Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player is, according to the company, an over-the-air mobile runtime that has been made immediately available. At this point in time Adobe i...

16 February 2009
07:23 GMT

Nokia Announces the Ovi Store and New Devices

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today at the Mobile World Congress the launch of the Ovi Store, a content and application store that is the first in the world to allow personalization of the content according to a user's social connections and physical location. At the same time, the company also anno...

16 February 2009
05:50 GMT

ARM Announces NEON Technology Included in Dolby Mobile

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ARM announced today that its ARM NEON technology would be included in the Dolby Mobile from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. The combination between the two will offer manufacturers new ways of leveraging the user listening experience on mobile phones and portable media players, whi...

16 February 2009
05:21 GMT

Palm Joins the Open Screen Project

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the mobile phone maker Palm is joining the Open Screen Project, an industry initiative dedicated to enable standalone applications and full web browsing across televisions, desktops and mobile devices to benefit from the Adobe F...

16 February 2009
04:44 GMT

Samsung Memoir Goes Official

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and T-Mobile USA officially unveiled the Samsung Memoir touch-screen phone, which the two have announced together with photographer and model Helena Christensen, who gained a first hands-on experience with the Memoir. The new mobile phone comes with an 8-megapixel c...

16 February 2009
04:18 GMT

Gemalto Brings Windows Live Messenger to Handsets

Microsoft Corp. and Gemalto announced today at the Mobile World Congress a partnership to bring Windows Live Messenger services to mobile phone users. The two companies announced that a new Windows Live Messenger client application would be offered to the mass market pre-installed on phone Subscriber Identity Module ...

16 February 2009
03:22 GMT

Gemalto Announces Its UpTeq Mobile TV SIM Card

Gemalto, a worldwide leading provider of digital security solutions, announced today that its UpTeq mobile TV SIM card has earned the security certification that is in accordance with the SIMalliance Security Guidelines, which are applicable to Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Mobile Broadcast Services Enabler Suite (BCAST...

16 February 2009
02:44 GMT


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