Acer has well and truly thrown its hat into the smartphone ring, with a slew of Android phones announced Monday. The most affordable is the BeTouch E110, which is designed to offer Web-connected smartphone-style features to the masses. Unfortunately, it has one glaring omission: Wi-Fi. However it does have 3G, so you could use data …

Intel and Nokia are combining their respective Linux operating environments to power future smartphones and tablets, another step in a technology tie-up launched last year. The technology merger will fuse Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo software to form a new operating environment dubbed MeeGo, which is expected to power a range of devices, including pocketable mobile computers, Netbooks, tablets, connected …

What’s that stench? Is it a French trench? Or a drenched wench? No, it’s Motorola, stinking up Mobile World Congress with the worst name for a phone since the Krzr. It’s not all bad though: the Motorola Quench is a touchscreen Android phone with Motoblur, the social-networking savvy UI we first saw on the admirable Dext. The Quench is a …

BARCELONA, Spain–On Monday, Motorola introduced its eighth Google Android device, the Motorola Cliq XT/Quench, at Mobile World Congress 2010. In other parts of the world, the device will go by the name of Quench but in the States, it will be called the Cliq XT and will launch with T-Mobile in March. As with the original Motorola Cliq, the Cliq …

If mobile phones aren’t your bag, Panasonic wants to lighten the burden of this year’s Mobile World Congress with some AV news. First to reach us was word of its new 3D Blu-ray player, an ideal match for the company’s new 3D plasma TVs, and with some exciting new features and an interesting technological solution to pumping 3D over HDMI. …

Sony has announced that its new line-up of Blu-ray products will go 3D with a firmware update this year. Sony announced a line-up of 3D home cinema products at CES in January, including the Bravia LX and HX 3D TVs. The range of products to go 3D includes the BDV-E670W, BDV-E870, and BDV-IZ1000W. We’ve contacted Sony for a full list …

Panasonic plasmas have been reported to be increasing in brightness after a certain period of use causing some overseas users to complain, but the company says this is normal and will not be fixed. In a statement to CNET US, which had received a “barrage” of reader complaints, Panasonic said that its plasma TVs’ “background brightness will increase”, but described …

There’s definitely a buzz around Mobile World Conference 2010 and the smart money says this year we are in for a real treat. Most of the major vendors will be on hand to show off their latest wares, and not just new handsets, but major OS overhauls as well. Here’s what we are dreaming of seeing in Barcelona. HTC Supersonic(Credit: …

You won’t see it at Mobile World Congress, but Verizon Wireless added the LG Accolade to its lineup this week. The very middle of the road, the Accolade has a standard flip-phone design and a modest feature set. Inside you’ll find a 1.3-megapixel camera, text and multimedia messaging, Bluetooth, speaker-independent voice commands, a personal organizer, a 1,000-contact phone book, a …

Sony Ericsson at MWC (photos) +2 more See all photos Sony Ericsson typically treats Mobile World Congress (MWC) as one of its biggest events of the year, and the 2010 show in Barcelona is no exception. The manufacturer unveiled three new handsets the night before MWC began at a packed nightclub on the Mediterranean Sea. The Vivaz Pro is a …

From the signs looming over Mobile World Congress we knew that Samsung was going to “unpack” a new phone in Barcelona. And the night before the show began the company did just that with the Samsung Wave, the first handset to run on Sammy’s new Bada operating system. Samsung Wave Samsung Also called the S8500, the Wave’s slim (4.64 inches …

BARCELONA, Spain–On Sunday, the Samsung Wave made its splashy debut during a rather lavish press conference hosted by Samsung on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2010 here in Barcelona. Complete with dancers and aerial ballet (not to mention drowning us in every wave metaphor one could ever think of), the event gave us a chance to check out the …

BARCELONA, Spain–Executives from Sony Ericsson, the struggling European handset maker working hard to make a turnaround in 2010, said most of its new phones introduced this coming year will sport the Google Android operating system. On the eve of the Mobile World Congress trade show, Sony Ericsson held a press conference here to show off its three new smartphones due …

BARCELONA, Spain–Verizon Wireless could soon be adding Skype software to some of its phones, according to reports. Verizon, the largest wireless company in the U.S., announced Friday that it is scheduling a press conference with Skype on Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress trade show and conference here. Verizon isn’t commenting publicly on the announcement, but Bloomberg is citing unnamed …

BARCELONA, Spain–Microsoft is expected to show off the long-awaited Windows Mobile 7 operating system for smartphones at Mobile World Congress, as the company attempts to resurrect itself in this arena and better compete against rivals Apple and Google. The operating system will be demonstrated during Microsoft’s press conference here Monday, according to several reports. News of Microsoft’s plans to talk …