Think Foursquare is just about bagging the mayorship to your local kebab house or getting a discount on your Starbucks coffee? Think again. The social location service wants you to shape up, and wish your friends a happy birthday. Its VP of mobile and partnerships, Holger Luedorf, explained Foursquare’s moral purpose in a social-networking panel …
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Will HTC continue to make Windows Phone 7 handsets? Yes, according to chief executive Peter Chou. He was asked the question on stage during a Mobile World Congress panel session this afternoon. It’s not a silly question to ask, given Microsoft’s recent buddy-buddy act with Nokia, and more importantly, the promise that Nokia’s engineers will be working with their Microsoft …
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BlackBerry PlayBook with Wi-Fi connectivity alone might not be a hugely tempting prospect, even if you can pair it with a BlackBerry smart phone for 3G access. RIM, however, has announced two new PlayBook models this morning, due to go on sale this year, which will have built-in 4G mobile broadband. 4G? Bully for the US, where the operators are …
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Umeox’s new Apollo smart phone laughs in the face of low battery life. Well, it does as long as you don’t take it to Manchester. The newly announced Android handset has its own built-in solar charger, to keep it juiced with the sun’s rays as you go through the day. Not heard of Umeox? That might not be surprising: the …
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Eager to get your hands on Motorola’s Honeycomb-powered Xoom tablet? We’ve got good news and bad news. The good: it’s coming to Europe, including the UK. The bad: you’ll have to wait a little bit longer, as it’s due to launch on this side of the Atlantic in the second quarter of the year. Still, that means Xoom should touch …
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Dual-core Android smart phones are all the rage at Mobile World Congress this year, but technology is moving on apace. Qualcomm just unveiled its next-generation Snapdragon chipset, which you can expect to see in devices sometime in 2012. How powerful is it? Quad-core. Even the word sounds slightly rude. The APQ8064 uses a new micro-architecture code called Krait, which has …
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Nokia’s recent decision to adopt Windows Phone 7 as its primary smart-phone platform has thrown up plenty of thorny questions. Not least among them is whether Nokia and Intel’s joint MeeGo operating system has a real future. Despite widespread expectations that it will be mothballed eventually, it seems Nokia could announce its next MeeGo device as soon as today. Nokia …
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Samsung will take the wrappers off its Galaxy S2 smart phone tomorrow at its Mobile World Congress press conference, but the device’s specs appear to have leaked early, via a listing on UK retailer MobileFun’s website. The site is taking pre-orders on the Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 for £549.95 SIM-free, with an expected release date of 4 March. There’s also …
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The BBC iPlayer for iPad app is very slick indeed, but the Beeb isn’t the only company looking to push things forwards when it comes to watching TV on your tablet or smart phone. Finnish firm Axel Technologies has announced that its Fuugo application will be available in Europe in the second quarter of this year. The idea behind Fuugo is …
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LG’s Optimus 3D smart phone and Optimus Pad tablet herald a big mobile 3D push for the company at Mobile World Congress over the next week. It’s been confirmed that both will make their debut at the show already, but today LG announced a few more details about the innards of its new flagship devices. The Optimus 3D is all …
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