BARCELONA, Spain–What do HTC’s three Mobile World Congress smartphones have in common? Quite a lot, actually. Besides sharing similar names, the HTC One X, HTC One S, and HTC One V are all Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) smartphones that also include the toned-down Sense 4.0 interface, HTC’s Beats Audio enhancement software, and a …
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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, …
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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 …
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Thankfully HTC went big at Mobile World Congress with its quad-core HTC One X smartphone. Sadly, the next handset to fill out the company’s new lineup, the One S, runs a less splashy Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core CPU. Still, if today’s phones are any indication, that will remain plenty fast. Related Links HTC One X hands on (video) Compact One …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Just as dual-core chips represented the pinnacle of mobile devices last year, quad-core phones are shaping up to be the must-have feature on any premiere smartphone. The problem is, do consumers really care? Sure, the tech media and analyst community obsess over specifications, and at a show like Mobile World Congress, it’s hard to fault a vendor for putting …
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BARCELONA, Spain–LG is banking that the consumer need for speed will drive sales of its mobile devices, a bet the company hopes will pay off with a larger foothold in the smartphone market. The company’s product lineup for Mobile World Congress, which was announced throughout last week, illustrates its increasing use of high-end components. The phones include Nvidia’s Tegra 3 …
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BARCELONA, Spain–If it’s a quad-core Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone you want, then add the HTC One X to your list. Just announced today at Mobile World Congress, the One X is the flagship phone in HTC’s new “HTC One” family of devices. The One X features Android 4.0, the most up-to-date (and coveted) version of the Android operating system, topped …
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With the passage last week of legislation authorizing the FCC to conduct new spectrum auctions, you might think that the looming spectrum crisis has been averted. Nothing could be farther from the truth–or more dangerous to the continued health of the mobile ecosystem. To avoid severe service interruptions or outright collapse of mobile networks, the FCC’s 2010 National Broadband Plan …
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Apple has bought Chomp, a service that makes it easy to search for Android and iOS apps, and plans to use the company’s know-how to revamp searching in the App Store. TechCrunch reports that Apple has swallowed Chomp whole, with the Mac-making company taking on all of Chomp’s tech and staff. Om nom nom. Never one to reveal its true motives, …
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Acer’s lifted the lid on its latest smart phone, the oddly-dubbed Liquid Glow — a curvy mobile that comes in a range of colours, that’s powered by Ice Cream Sandwich, the very latest version of Android. Style-wise, the Liquid Glow is highly reminiscent of previous Acer efforts such as last year’s Liquid Mini, but it ups the stakes by being …
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Sprint was just hours away from acquiring Metro PCS in an $8 billion deal when Sprint’s board nixed the agreement, CNBC is reporting. Citing unnamed sources, CNBC’s David Faber said the two companies had been working on the plan for months and that a deal was expected to be announced after Sprint’s board met late Wednesday. Metro PCS shareholders would …
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Rumours are circulating that Samsung’s planning a smart phone with a edge-to-edge screen, dubbed the Samsung Galaxy B. Sammyhub spotted a report from the Korean language Maeil Business newspaper that hints that the company has been beavering away on a nearly bezel-free device. Peering through the dense fog of Google Translate, it would appear that Samsung has been working on the …
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Heading to Europe and wondering how you can avoid coming home to a wireless bill as big as your mortgage payment? In this edition of Ask Maggie I offer some advice about using a smartphone abroad to a reader traveling to Spain next week for the Mobile World Congress trade show. Getting a local SIM card to pop into an …
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Sony has released a beta version of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Xperia Arc S, Xperia Ray and Xperia Neo V, letting more adventurous Android fans get a taste of the latest version of Android ahead of the official update. Sony posted the details on its developer site, but warns that the update should only be attempted if you’re an ‘advanced …
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Over the last month, CNET has written a lot about an upcoming trade show called Mobile World Congress. And over the next week, we’ll be writing even more about it. If you’ve never heard of the event before, I don’t blame you. Indeed, Mobile World Congress doesn’t have the same name recognition that CES commands in the United States, but …
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