BARCELONA, Spain–We’ve seen lots of interesting hardware at Mobile World Congress, and yesterday when the team met to talk about what product should get our best of show award, there were plenty of gadgets in the mix. Asus’ Padfone Infinity was in the running, along with its FonePad, the Nokia Lumia 720, and Sony’s Xperia …

BARCELONA, Spain–The second half of this year will see phones in the shops that can work on 4G LTE networks in both Europe and the U.S., according to Roberto Di Pietro, a VP at Qualcomm in Europe. That has the potential to solve a major problem with today’s 4G phones — although you can normally get a data connection in …

BARCELONA, Spain–Swinging past the Telefonica booth at Mobile World Congress I came across these two phones sitting in a case full of Firefox phones. First up is a mystery device from Huawei: Sarah Tew/CNET Related stories MWC 2022: How to Watch the Samsung Galaxy Book Reveal CES 2021: What to expect as the show goes all-digital ​Microsoft warns it might …

We’re all going to sunny Spain for Mobile World Congress, the annual trade show for phones, tablets, apps and mobile services. Held in Barcelona, over 65,000 people are expected to show up to see what the latest trends are. You don’t need to go anywhere, though: for the first time the different CNET sites around the world are combining forces …

Two days ago, the company formerly known as RIM pulled out all the stops at a super-swanky event in New York to launch two new phones that will either kill or cure the company. Despite the global launch happening in the U.S., America will be the last in the first batch of countries to see the Z10, BlackBerry’s first phone …

It’s a been a whirlwind year of tech launches, with phones and tablets taking centre stage. Our colleagues over at CNET.com went the whole hog and wrote up their 100 top stories of 2012, but as the year draws to a close I wanted the CNET UK team to take a moment to reflect on their personal highlights of the …

For anyone interested in buying the new iPad or iPad mini who would like to use them on 4G: good news! Unlike the model released earlier in the year, both of the ones announced tonight support 4G. That means you’ll be able to put a SIM from newly launched 4G network EE and browse the web at whatever speeds that …

Hello, good evening and welcome to CNET’s coverage of tonight’s Apple launch. Everyone has been speculating on what Apple will reveal for months now, with the smart bets landing on a new tablet with a 7.85-inch screen and the smaller lightning port from the iPhone 5. We only have a short time to wait to find out if those predictions …

I remember picking up my email for the first time on my mobile over 10 years ago. I was using one of the first BlackBerry phones, and it felt a little bit like magic. If someone sent me a message, it just arrived — I didn’t need to ask the phone to check for it, and the Qwerty keyboard was …

One question I am asked all the time is whether the Samsung Galaxy S3 is better than the iPhone 5. It’s the new “Mac or PC?” I have a fairly standard answer for this, which is that it depends on what you want from a phone. The S3 is better for people that like a product with loads of features …