HTC CEO Peter Chou took to the stage at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Sunday to unveil three new handsets under a single family branding: the One X, the S and the V. HTC latest: the One S, the One X and the One V. (Credit: HTC/CBSi) Unified by a few key technologies, …

Samsung outed the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 a couple of weeks ago, and now here’s its 10.1-inch bigger brother, which confusingly has the same name. Like the 7-incher, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1-inch (sigh) runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, but the screen resolution has been bumped up to 1,280×800-pixels (from 1,024×600 on the smaller model). But aside from these differences, …

Huawei reckons the Ascend D Quad is the world’s fastest smart phone. Hear that Samsung? Hear that HTC? Them’s fightin’ words! But with a K3V2 quad-core 1.5GHz processor, it may well be onto something. In a presentation at Mobile World Congress, Huawei chairman Richard Yu compared the Ascend D to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Asus Transformer Prime tablet. Suffice …

BARCELONA, Spain–Samsung is back with another Wi-Fi-only device we like to refer to tongue-in-cheek as a Galaxy S phone without the phone. Indeed, the Galaxy S WiFi has most of the makings of a more entry-level Android smartphone, from the version 2.3 Gingerbread OS to the 4.2-inch WVGA screen (480×800-pixel resolution) and the 1GHz processor. There’s a 2-megapixel camera on …

BARCELONA, Spain–LG is jockeying to be the next handset partner to craft a Nexus device–allowing the company to get first dibs on one of the next iterations of Android. “We’re having discussions,” Ramchan Woo, head of LG’s smartphone division, told CNET in an interview. “We’re working on it.” Over the past few years, getting the Nexus title and working directly …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Beam 1:05 BARCELONA, Spain–We’ve talked for years about pico projectors in smartphones, and now at last we get our first glimpse at a phone that’s making that detail front and center. Earlier this morning, Samsung uploaded images on Google+ of the smartphone it’s calling the Samsung Galaxy Beam. And later on the eve of …

BARCELONA, Spain–Sony Mobile Communications has a new strategy. Instead of announcing one killer phone at this year’s Mobile World Congress, it’s announcing a suite of devices that it hopes will attract a wider audience of consumers, particularly those at the low end. Will the strategy work? It’s hard to say. There’s a lot of competition out there that will make …

BARCELONA, Spain–Mozilla took a big first step in making something real out of B2G, its browser-based mobile operating system, by signing on mobile network operator Telefonica as a partner. In addition, the Firefox maker discussed another step, a close relationship with mobile processor maker Qualcomm to create the hardware for the first phones, expected to launch later in 2012. Those …

BARCELONA, Spain–Mobile World Congress is one of the biggest technology trade shows on the planet. Focusing solely on mobile phones, it’s also a smartphone-lover’s dream. So far the first day of the MWC definitely delivered. The two overarching themes of the day: the ramp-up to phones with more powerful quad-core processors, and the continued march toward Android 4.0 (Ice Cream …

BARCELONA, Spain–Remember the Chacha or Salsa? Yeah, few do. They were among the several smartphones unveiled by HTC at last year’s Mobile World Congress confab. The two, which stood out at the conference for their integrated Facebook button, barely made a dent with consumers with they hit the market. But with another year comes renewed focus on the business. HTC …

BARCELONA, Spain–While the HTC real stars of the evening are undoubtedly the HTC One family of Android Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones–the One X, One S, and One V–we did learn something new that will interest HTC Vivid owners on AT&T. The carrier issued a press release promising enhanced audio and compatibility with Beats Audio accessories “in the coming weeks.” All …

BARCELONA, Spain–There are no secrets with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, the successor to the original 7-inch tablet family that Samsung unveiled last year. This Mobile World Congress brings not only a 7-inch version of the Tab 2, but an update to today’s 10.1-inch model as well. Related stories Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 not exactly priced to sell Samsung unveils …

BARCELONA, Spain–Just as Mobile World Congress was set to begin, Orange announced a new Android smartphone powered by an Intel Atom processor. Code-named the Orange Santa Clara, the handset will launch later this year in France and the United Kingdom. At that time, Orange also will reveal pricing and the phone’s official name. Outside of the processor, which is pretty …

BARCELONA, Spain–Later this year, some people should be able to buy mobile phones you can take into the shower. So forecast two companies specializing in waterproof coatings for electronics, HzO and Liquipel, that are showing off their technology here at the Mobile World Congress. There’s a certain shock value to seeing high-end Apple and Samsung phones swimming in the drink, …

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, in pictures (photos) +3 more See all photos BARCELONA, Spain–If you, like me, are still trying to figure out what the Samsung Galaxy Note with its S-Pen stylus is really for, then the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet is refreshingly simple as a large slate with a clear purpose. Related stories Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 unveiling …