CNET will have you covered with all of the news and product releases at the huge annual mobile show Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. CNET editor Kent German recently previewed what we expect to see. Here are the CNET accounts to follow for all the best at MWC: Master CNET accounts: Follow @CNET CNET …

If you’ve been eagerly waiting for a gluttonous helping of Ice Cream Sandwich, prepare to tuck in. The new Acer Liquid Glow smartphone is the latest in what is sure to be a parade of devices running Android 4.0 announced at Mobile World Congress. While I’m not exactly sure why this phone is called Liquid Glow, Acer does say the …

Rumors are circulating that Samsung’s planning a smartphone with an 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 …

Orange and T-Mobile promise to give your phone a speed boost with the launch of 4G before the end of this year. The two networks, united under the Everything Everywhere banner, promise more LTE 4G trials and massively extended HSPA+ coverage. Everything Everywhere is the new name for T-Mobile and Orange merged into the UK’s biggest phone network. The folks …

Apple When users purchase digital books through the iBookstore for their iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, those files are only able to be played on iOS devices. That’s because everything sold through the iBookstore has Apple’s Fair Play digital rights management (DRM) software protecting it. Now it appears, much to the chagrin of e-authors and digital book publishers, Apple’s DRM …

Log into your Box account (or a new one) from your Android device and presto: 50GB of free storage is yours. Box Looking for free, reliable cloud storage? Dropbox offers 2GB, while SugarSync gives you 5GB. Microsoft’s SkyDrive raises the stakes even higher with 25GB, though for the moment it lacks any official companion apps. Not enough? Check out Box, …

Muve Music, a music service from Cricket Wireless that impressed us so much that it earned a Best of CES nomination last year, is coming to the Huawei Ascend II. Muve Music is now available on the Huawei Ascend II. Cricket Wireless Muve Music lets you search through thousands of artists and albums available on major U.S. record labels. You …

Audio is no less immune to the sort of mild lies and partial truths found in the HDTV world. As I discussed in the HDTV edition of MMM, cutting through these fabrications is the key to understanding what really matters. Before you spend any money on audio, check out this list for what’s important, what’s not, and what’s just total …

The much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 could be launching in July, according to South African network operators, which have made mention of the upcoming smart phone’s launch date. Mybroadband.co.za reports that South African network Cell C has said that the follow-up to the Samsung Galaxy S2 will be on sale by July of this year, while Virgin Mobile said it would be …

Asus has finally released the unlocked bootloader for its Transformer Prime tablet, allowing Android nuts to tinker with their tablets. But be warned — activating the unlock app will void your warranty. The bootloader unlock only works with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, also known as the TF201, and will only function on tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich. You …

Google is getting ready to replace with Dennis Woodside, Google’s former head of ad sales in the Americas and overseer of the Google-Motorola merger, according to a report. Woodside would run the Motorola unit of Google once the deal closes, Bloomberg reported, citing several unnamed sources. Woodside was on a short list that included Motorola Senior Vice President Christy Wyatt …

Now playing: Watch this: Asus Transformer Prime vs. Apple iPad 2 6:08 We all know the iPad 2. Sure, it’s great, but it’s about time someone cut that smug slate down to size. You know, give it the ol’ sucker punch before the iPad 3 comes out and turns us into drooling fanboys again. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime …

Rugged phones have been around forever, but melding extreme survivability into a true Android smartphone that’s not laughably large or looks like an off-road tire is a challenge. Samsung feels it has created a tough device that has beaten the odds. The $99.99 Samsung Rugby Smart certainly has a rough and tumble name. The company claims it’s built to meet …

Chinese phone company ZTE plans to make a big splash at Mobile World Congress with a Windows device and a slew of Android handsets. ZTE isn’t exactly a household name, at least in the U.S. The smartphone maker aims to change that by dropping an as-of-yet unannounced handset running Microsoft’s Windows Phone software along with eight advanced Android devices described …

T-Mobile USA faces a daunting uphill climb as it looks to turn itself around. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless provider, two months removed from a failed attempt to merge with AT&T, today laid out its comeback plan, which includes improving its existing network and deploying 4G LTE by 2013. Parent Deutsche Telekom has committed to investing $4 billion in the business, …