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 …

Those of you hungry for Android 2.3 Gingerbread on more than just the Nexus S will soon get a taste with the ZTE Skate. The Skate–announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today–will have a large, 4.3-inch touch screen (qualifying it as a “jumbo phone,” according to HP). However, its 800MHz processor and 5-megapixel camera make it more midlevel than …

In addition to going out on a limb with two Facebook-friendly phones, HTC also hedged its wilder bets this Mobile World Congress with updates to three of its more popular phones. The HTC Incredible S, Wildfire S, and Desire S are all familiar designs that include the HTC Sense interface on top of an Android base. The high-end HTC Incredible …

At CES this year, Cricket Wireless introduced Muve Music, an industry-first cell phone plan built around an all-you-can-eat music model. The carrier first released Muve Music and its accompanying handset, the Samsung Suede, in Las Vegas after a delay. Now Cricket is expanding the phone and service as promised to 13 new markets, including Washington D.C., Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Memphis/Nashville/Knoxville, …

It’s game time. At Mobile World Congress, CNET got a thumbs-and-eyeballs-on look at the much-anticipated Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the official name of the long-rumored “PlayStation phone.” Unlike the unsettling Frankenstein-esque nightmare of a Super Bowl ad, the Xperia Play’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread-plus-PlayStation duo is much cooler in the non-mutilated flesh. See for yourself in our gallery. Hands on with …

When it comes to conferences, the preshow is often just as important as the opening day, if not more so. Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, is no exception. Day 0 has already proven Android’s virility with five Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone announcements and two Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets, with much more to come. Even before a trio of press …

Adobe may be leaving the flashy announcements to Nokia and Sony Ericsson this Mobile World Congress, but there are some plans pertaining to Flash that will impact a wide swatch of Android smartphones and tablets going forward. Adobe shared mostly statistics in a press event before the show, but bobbing in the sea of performance numbers (like: more than 20 …

Dying to get your hands on the highly rated Motorola Atrix 4G? No, AT&T isn’t doling out hidden-away handsets from a secret stash, but buyers with their hearts set on the dual-core, Android 2.2 Froyo device that powers a laptop-like accessory can start claiming their units prior to the March 6 sale date by preordering on AT&T’s site. Keep in …

We caught wind of the Samsung Gem last month, but today Samsung and Verizon’s Alltel have made their match official. The 3G, candy bar Android smartphone sports a 3.2-inch touch screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera, an 800Mhz processor, and Swype on the virtual keyboard. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a load of Google services are also present, as is a microSD card slot. …

Just in time for the appearance of the Verizon iPhone tomorrow, VoIP calling service Skype is updating its iPhone app to include support for the H.264 video format. H.264 is the most widely accepted encoding standard for high-definition video. In addition to boosting image quality, the enhancement means that Skype for iPhone users can place and accept calls from and …