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Shortly after announcing plans to enter the European smartphone market, Panasonic launched its first device to be available outside Japan, the ELUGA.
Showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Panasonic ELUGA sports a 4.3-inch OLED capacitive touchscreen display that supports 540 x 960 pixels resoluti... |
5 March 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Chinese handset manufacturer is determined to conquer the European smartphone market this year. The company confirmed its push on said market and announced the upcoming availability of several Android phones at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.After revealing the Ascend D quad, dubbed “the fa... |
3 March 2012
06:28 GMT |
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Fujitsu announced world’s slimmest smartphone back in November, shortly after Motorola RAZR was introduced on the market.
At only 6.7mm thickness, Fujitsu Arrows F-07D is 0.4mm thinner than Motorola RAZR. The smartphone measures 127 x 64mm and weighs only 105g (battery included).
Showcased at this year’... |
1 March 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Japanese handset maker Fujitsu is one of the few that won’t be entering the European smartphone market this year. Even though the company showcased most of its lineup of waterproof smartphones and tablets at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2012, these are all targeting the Japanese market. For exampl... |
1 March 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Unveiled last week at the Mobile World Congress 2012, HTC One S is a middle-class Android phone, though it is equipped by a powerful dual-core CPU.
However, 2012 is likely to be the year of quad-core smartphones, which puts all the dual-core handsets in the mid-range category.
Aside from the Qualcomm MSM8260A Snap... |
1 March 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Computer maker Acer was present this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with its latest Android-based handsets, including the affordable Acer Liquid Glow.
We got the chance to put our hands on it, and came up with a gallery of live photos for you to enjoy.
The new mobile phone was made official with a... |
1 March 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Huawei did not bring to this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona only high-end smartphones, but also chose to showcase some more affordable devices. Thus, the company had the Android-based Huawei Honor on the floor at the event, and we got the chance to have a better look at it. The handset was launched w... |
1 March 2012
07:18 GMT |
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The most controversial device announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress exhibition, Nokia 808 PureView has just been awarded as “Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet,” by a jury of well-known journalists and analysts.
This is the first mobile phone to carry a 41-megapixel camera and will ... |
1 March 2012
05:54 GMT |
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This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona provided us with the possibility to have a better look at some great dual-core smartphones, including two coming from Huawei, namely the Ascend D lte and Ascend D1.
Both of them have been designed to offer great performance capabilities through the dual-core 1.5... |
1 March 2012
05:52 GMT |
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After a whole bunch of quad-core and dual-core smartphones powered by Android, or the new and appealing Windows Phone devices from Nokia, it’s high time we had a look at some more traditional phones present on the floor at MWC 2012, such as the Motorola Gleam+.
Packing a flip form factor, the same as its pred... |
29 February 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The release marks a new step in the evolution of Windows 8, but is still only a preview version of the platform, destined mainly for testing purposes. The new platform flavor brings along a variety of... |
29 February 2012
10:23 GMT |
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One of the Android-based devices that Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE brought to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the ZTE PF112, a device that runs under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.
The smartphone packs 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory, along with a 4.5-inch (720 x 1... |
29 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Motorola DEFY Mini and Motorola PRO+ were two of the smartphones that the United States-based mobile phone maker brought along at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Both these devices run under Google’s Android operating system and both of them are destined for the lower-end of the market.
Even so, th... |
29 February 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Besides the new Xperia P and Xperia U smartphones, Sony brought along to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona phones that were launched last month, including the LTE-enabled Xperia ion destined for AT&T’s airwaves.
The new mobile phone will soon offer great performance capabilities to all those interested i... |
29 February 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE promised no less than eight mobile phones for this year’s Mobile World Congress, and it delivered. There were six Android-based devices showcased in the company’s stand at the event, along with two smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. ... |
29 February 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Motorola did not launch new smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but the company did bring along some of its latest handsets, such as the Motorola RAZR that can be seen in the hands-on photos attached at the bottom of this article.
We took the time to have a closer look at the device, to see whet... |
29 February 2012
04:55 GMT |
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One of the newly launched mobile phones that we had the chance to play with at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the Panasonic ELUGA. The smartphone was unveiled to the world earlier this month and is expected to arrive on shelves in the not too distant future. The handset packs a dual-core 1 GHz TI OMAP 443... |
29 February 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Since we took the time to check out Acer's high-end 1,920 x 1,200 tablet, we couldn't just leave its sibling hanging, so we snapped photos of the Acer Iconia Tab A510 as well. This item may not have the same resolution as the Iconia Tab A700 (we have a gallery of it posted here), but it makes up for it th... |
29 February 2012
03:30 GMT |
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This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought along the first smartphones packing quad-core application processors. ZTE launched its own such mobile phone, the ZTE Era, and we took the time to photograph it. The smartphone packs Nvidia’s Tegra 3 Quad-core 1.3 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM, while runnin... |
29 February 2012
02:56 GMT |
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Where it once used to be, at best, skeptical of the tablet sector's chances of success, Acer has turned into one of its primary promoters, as its exhibition at MWC 2012 proves.
Acer has been going through some rough times, but about two years of financial decline are finally nearing their end, so the company w... |
29 February 2012
02:52 GMT |
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We spoke about the ASUS transformer Pad Infinity twice over the past few days, when ASUS included it in its MWC 2012 conference and, earlier, when the formal press release came out, along with the full specs. Now, we are able to show you the real life look of this slate whose screen has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,20... |
29 February 2012
02:26 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Sony took over Sony Ericsson, and turned the mobile phone maker into its mobile division.
However, the company did continue on the line Sony Ericsson had been moving, and released some new devices in the Xperia lineup, the low-end Xperia U included.
The new mobile phone was made official on Sun... |
29 February 2012
02:16 GMT |
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Just before this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced the launch of a new family of devices, the L-Style series.
Three handsets have been included in this lineup so far, namely the LG Optimus L7, LG Optimus L5 and LG Optimus L3. We managed... |
29 February 2012
01:40 GMT |
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Motorola announced all its new products at the International Consumer Electronics Show, last month. Given the fact that the company's main market is North America, Motorola didn't bring anything new at this year's Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain.However, we had the chance to try out some o... |
28 February 2012
16:38 GMT |
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Acer does not have a booth of its own at Mobile World Congress 2012. Instead the company preferred to rent some meeting rooms.Silently launched a while ago, Acer CloudMobile was pretty elusive at the MWC. Luckily, we've been able to find the phone tucked in a corner within Google's booth. The phone is sho... |
28 February 2012
16:30 GMT |
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The third phone manufactured by LG and Prada has been recently launched on the market in the UK. Given the fact that the smartphone was officially announced last month we had to check out the device showcased at LG's booth during Mobile World Congress 2012.Alas, this was one phone hard to find. However, this is ... |
28 February 2012
16:07 GMT |
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On Monday, Nokia launched the most advanced camera phone in the world, the Nokia 808 PureView.
Running under Nokia Belle, the new mobile phone packs a 41-megapixel photo snapper on the back, the highest-quality camera sensor in a smartphone. It can record 1080p Full HD videos and shoot great photos.
The handset a... |
28 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia unveiled new handsets in the Asha series, set to deliver great capabilities and performance to users in more markets than before. The company also had the new devices on display in its booth at the event, and we had the chance to take a better look at ... |
28 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Opera brought to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a new flavor of its Opera Mini browser for feature phones. Dubbed Opera Mini Next, the new application flavor was meant to provide users with increased social capabilities through a new feature called Smart Page. Basically, it was designed to bring together ... |
28 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE was expected to bring a new range of handsets at this year’s Mobil World Congress in Barcelona, and the company did not disappoint.
Among the smartphones that we had the change to see at ZTE’s stand, we can count the ZTE Skate Acqua and the ZTE Skate Kis.
The new devices... |
28 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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New Medfield chips and acceleration in 14nm processor development are just one facet of Intel's effort to secure a portion of the mobile device market.
The Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker has also announced a partnership with Visa inc., one that will benefit developed and developing countries.
Accord... |
28 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 610 is the cheapest Windows Phone that Nokia unveiled to date. Launched on Monday at the Mobile World Congress, the handset is expected to arrive on shelves in the second quarter of the year with a price tag of EUR189 attached to it. Nokia’s Lumia 610 smartphone will be among the first devices in ... |
28 February 2012
12:09 GMT |
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On Monday, at this year’s Mobile World Congress, Opera announced the release of the final flavor of its Opera Mobile 12 browser for Android and Symbian devices. As you can see in the video embedded above, we had the chance to have a look at the browser in Barcelona, where Opera showcased it on Android 4.0-bas... |
28 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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If you wanted some small headphones that could also handle the basic operations of a smartphone, the Jabra Clipper may be just the thing.
On display at MWC 2012, these headphones connect to one or two devices that support Bluetooth.
They come with noise cancellation and can even pause music when answering an inco... |
28 February 2012
09:58 GMT |
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The next major Android release might become available in late 2012, Mountain View-based Internet giant Google confirmed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Nothing was specifically announced on the matter, but things that we were already expecting have been confirmed.
Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of... |
28 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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ZTE is the first mobile phone maker in the world to announce the availability of an Android-based device to include Nvidia’s Icera 450 HSPA+ modem in addition to the dual-core CPU and GeForce GPU that were packed inside the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip. The smartphone is called Mimosa X and made an appearance at the ... |
28 February 2012
08:59 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA users will soon get the chance to grab the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G smartphone on the airwaves of their wireless carrier and to take advantage of its capabilities.
Before that, however, they can have a look at the handset in the live photos that we managed to shoot at the Mobile World Congress in Bar... |
28 February 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Sony brought two new smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, one of which was the Sony Xperia P. We had the chance to play with the device at the official launch on Sunday, but also took the time to have a better look at it after the show kicked off. Sony announced the handset in three color fla... |
28 February 2012
07:22 GMT |
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The Mobile World Congress 2012 event takes place these days in Barcelona, Spain, and our hard working team is there to bring you the latest news headlines. Today, February 28th, Canonical made a short demonstration of the Ubuntu TV device for Softpedia (check the video above). Featuring a customized version of the... |
28 February 2012
06:20 GMT |
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LG has unveiled some highly appealing Android-based smartphones before this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, including a successor to its first 3D-capable device.
The company also chose to bring the new LG Optimus 3D Max handset to the event, so that people could have a better look at it. We seized... |
28 February 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Fujitsu has brought a somewhat unusual tablet to this year's edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2012) taking place in Barcelona, Spain. Where it is showing off the Arrows smartphone (which we filmed shrugging off clobbering from metal balls here), Fujitsu also has the Arrows tablet on display. Even fr... |
28 February 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Samsung did not bring the successor of Galaxy S II at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but the company did showcase at the event some of its latest Android-based devices.
Among them, we can count the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 smartphone that was made official earlier this month, along with the Samsung Galaxy Ace... |
28 February 2012
04:54 GMT |
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We reported the launches of quite a few products over the past few days and, now, we're showing you what they look like in real life. Our colleagues at the Mobile World Congress 2012, in Barcelona, Spain, managed to shoot some photos of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Users should take care not to confuse it wi... |
28 February 2012
04:50 GMT |
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The excitement stirred by this year's edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2012) is rising. Nevertheless, despite the urge to run around and look at everything there is to see, we were still able to settle down enough to snap some pictures of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1). We aren't going to bore... |
28 February 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Yesterday, we let you know about the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD tablet and, now, we are able to bring you some close-up photos of the product. This slate is different from most others through its use of the company's own 1.5 GHz quad-core CPU instead of the NVIDIA Tegra or Qualcomm's platforms. The rest of ... |
28 February 2012
04:12 GMT |
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This year, LG launched a new smartphone series, the L-Style family of devices, which includes three smartphones at the moment. Among them, we can count the LG Optimus L7, which was present in LG’s booth at the MWC show in Barcelona. It is the better spec’d handset in the series, featuring a 4.3-inch scree... |
28 February 2012
04:02 GMT |
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Tegra 3 will be the core of NVIDIA's tablet and smartphone strategy this year, but the Tegra 3+ and Tegra 4 have, apparently, already been completed.
If we are to go by what VR-Zone claims to have found out at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC 2012), two of NVIDIA's upcoming Tegra iterations are... |
28 February 2012
03:58 GMT |
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LG has brought to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona all of the handsets that it made official during the past few weeks.
Among them, there was the LG Optimus 4X HD, the first quad-core smartphone from the company, launched with the latest Android operating system on board. We had the chance to spend a few mom... |
28 February 2012
02:48 GMT |
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One phone to rule them all, the One X is HTC's new Android flagship smartphone. It's been a long time since I've seen such a clean and fresh design coming from an HTC device.
I have tried to decide which phone should be my next smartphone for the rest of the year. I was tempted by Sony's Xperia S... |
27 February 2012
17:57 GMT |
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Chinese handset maker ZTE is going for other markets this year. The company plans to sell more of its products in North America and Europe, but does it has what it takes?
After checking with the company's booth here at Mobile World Congress, I would say that ZTE is still a long way from other Chinese handset ma... |
27 February 2012
17:29 GMT |
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