Doro has introduced a few new basic handsets in conjunction with Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. They are the PhoneEasy 615, the PhoneEasy 610, the PhoneEasy 680, and the PhoneEasy 682. Even though Doro usually makes superbasic phones with the elderly in mind (see our reviews of the Doro PhoneEasy 345 and the Doro PhoneEasy …
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BARCELONA, Spain–LG had already promised that they were coming, but the company waited until today–the first morning of Mobile World Congress here–to officially unveil the Optimus 3D and Optimus Pad. Both Android devices run on Gingerbread and offer 3D video recording. The Optimus 3D smartphone builds on the Optimus 2x and Optimus Black that LG announced last month at CES. …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Europeans will soon get a chance to buy two of Motorola Mobility’s hottest products this year: the Google Android business smartphone, the Droid Pro, and Motorola’s Android tablet, the Xoom. The Motorola Droid Pro. Motorola The company announced today at the Mobile World Congress 2011 here that these devices, which are already announced for the U.S. market, will soon …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Motorola Mobility announced today that it has acquired Three Laws Mobility (3LM), which provides security software for Android smartphones targeting the business and government market. Terms of the deal, which was completed late last year, were not disclosed. The news comes on the first day of the Mobile World Congress 2011 conference here. The acquisition will enable Motorola Mobility …
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As CNET’s David Carnoy reported earlier today, the Wall Street Journal is stoking the rumor-mill fire with news that a smaller, cheaper iPhone could ship as soon as this summer. My take: so what? Sure, I’d love to see an iPhone that’s thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4–but let’s not fool ourselves into believing it’s going to be cheap. …
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At CES this year, Cricket Wireless introduced Muve Music, an industry-first cell phone plan built around an all-you-can-eat music model. The carrier first released Muve Music and its accompanying handset, the Samsung Suede, in Las Vegas after a delay. Now Cricket is expanding the phone and service as promised to 13 new markets, including Washington D.C., Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Memphis/Nashville/Knoxville, …
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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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In addition to going out on a limb with two Facebook-friendly phones, HTC also hedged its wilder bets this Mobile World Congress with updates to three of its more popular phones. The HTC Incredible S, Wildfire S, and Desire S are all familiar designs that include the HTC Sense interface on top of an Android base. The high-end HTC Incredible …
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Those of you hungry for Android 2.3 Gingerbread on more than just the Nexus S will soon get a taste with the ZTE Skate. The Skate–announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today–will have a large, 4.3-inch touch screen (qualifying it as a “jumbo phone,” according to HP). However, its 800MHz processor and 5-megapixel camera make it more midlevel than …
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BARCELONA, Spain–The T-Mobile G-Slate by LG isn’t a new announcement. The 4G Honeycomb tablet was actually first introduced at CES 2011, but it only made a brief appearance during T-Mobile’s press conference before it was quickly whisked away by LG executives. However, our appetite for the G-Slate was satiated at Mobile World Congress 2011 where T-Mobile and LG provided us …
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Cell phone-maker ZTE showed three Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. In addition to the Gingerbread-toting ZTE Skate, which we looked at earlier, there’s the ZTE Amigo and the ZTE Blade. The Amigo has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2-megapixel camera–we’ll known much more later when we get our hands on the device. The third …
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Sonim XP3300 Force Sonim BARCELONA, Spain–Sonim added another rugged handset to its burly lineup today when it revealed the Sonim XP3300 at Mobile World Congress. Like its earlier XP3 and XP1300 Core, the XP3300 is built to withstand just about anything. You can submerge it in 6.5 feet of water and drop it from 6.5 feet onto a concrete floor …
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Best of MWC Day 0 and 1 (photos) +3 more See all photos BARCELONA, Spain–Mobile World Congress 2011 is off and roaring, as we finally get a chance to have some hands-on time with a few of the products announced this past weekend. But it’s not all just handset coverage; Barcelona has also become a hotbed for the latest news …
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Hands-on with the LG Optimus 3D (photos) +9 more See all photos BARCELONA, Spain–Yes, I’ve been pretty skeptical about the concept of a 3D cell phone. But to my surprise, the LG Optimus 3D actually delivers what it promises. It won’t be like watching 3D on the big screen–and frankly, there’s no reason that it should–but it offers an experience …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Research in Motion plans to release two more BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the second half of 2011, one with LTE and one with HSPA+ networking technology, the company announced at the Mobile World Congress here today. RIM already had announced a Wi-Fi-only tablet and one using the WiMax wireless networking technology. LTE and HSPA+, though, are much more broadly …
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