BARCELONA, Spain–What do HTC’s three Mobile World Congress smartphones have in common? Quite a lot, …

Google has patented a new way of using shortcuts from your smart phone. And it’s pretty clever. Here’s how it works. You write a letter that you’ve assigned to go to a website or carry out a set action, then, without breaking the stroke, you draw a circle round the text or image you want to apply that action to, …

Huawei’s speedy Ascend D Quad phone debuts (photos) +3 more See all photos Surprise, surprise. It turns out the first quad-core smartphones to be announced at Mobile World Congress aren’t powered by Nvidia’s vaunted Tegra 3 chip. Instead, Huawei’s D Quad line will feature quad-core silicon specially made by Huawei called the K3V2. Huawei Chairman Richard Yu took the stage …