Adobe announced its plans for Flash Player on tablets in time for Mobile World Congress last week. Now the company is fine-tuning its earlier news. Adobe stated in a blog post on Monday that it expects the Motorola Xoom to be the first tablet to receive Flash Player 10.2. This latest Flash Player update is …

The joke’s on you, Sonim XP300 Force. You taunted me with your thick rubber sidings and waterproof, mud-flap-protected charger port and headphone jacks. You bragged with your impressive laundry list of certifications for withstanding heat, cold, humidity, dust, salt, and shock. You laughed in the face of water. But now you’re cracked, over, kaput. Spilling shards of glass as effortlessly …

Microsoft and Nokia may have spent much of Mobile World Congress trying to convince attendees of the meritsof their fresh, new partnership, but the harder step will perhaps be urging Nokia’s loyal Symbian developers to shift alliances. There’s nothing like free stuff to help change one’s mind. To that end, Nokia will be giving away one E7 smartphone and one …

Box.net announced an update to its Box.net for iPad app today, and it’s one that could make you leave behind your laptop come your next off-site meeting or business trip. In fact, four new features join the iOS app for in-the-cloud business collaboration. The first is single sign-on, a convenience that allows you to log in once to connect Box, …

There are two stories that star the Samsung Galaxy Indulge. In one (the romance-adventure), the intrepid Indulge is MetroPCS’ first smartphone foray into 4G territory. What’s more, the humble Android 2.2 Froyo handset goes on to become the world’s first commercially available LTE smartphone. Cue the crescendo! In the other (the dystopia,) the Indulge is a good-but-not-great Galaxy S phone …

Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #162: Barcelona attacks! 50:11 The avalanche of smartphone and tablet news from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week is fast and furious; we have to cover our heads to keep our noggins from caving in. While Kent and Bonnie wrap up their enormous coverage in Spain, Nicole, CNET contributing blogger Scott Webster, and …

If you’ve been disgruntled by a dearth of widgets in Google Reader for Android, today’s news might pacify you. Google issued three new features and support for Russian translation today in its Reader app. Two of them are widgets. You can now mark a previous item as read, a feature first found on the mobile-optimized version of Reader online. As …

We could scarcely believe our eyes when we read in HTC’s press release last night that both the HTC Salsa and ChaCha “Facebook phones” will run Android 2.4, Gingerbread’s successor. Android 2.4? That at first seemed unlikely given several factors–the fact that Android developers are just starting to roll out Gingerbread 2.3 phones at this show and elsewhere, the fact …

Let’s see you do this, Han. Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Burly and coated in ridged rubber, the forthcoming Sonim XP3300 Force can take its share of abuse. Rugged phones are sturdy, but certainly not indestructible. That said, this “Force” fared better encased in concrete than Han Solo did in carbonite, and it also passed our dunk test. Several enhancements kick …

Cell phone-maker ZTE showed three Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. In addition to the Gingerbread-toting ZTE Skate, which we looked at earlier, there’s the ZTE Amigo and the ZTE Blade. The Amigo has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2-megapixel camera–we’ll known much more later when we get our hands on the device. The third …