Toshiba TG02 CNET UK We have to give props to Toshiba for being first on the fast-phone dancefloor with the Snapdragon-powered Toshiba TG01, but its resistive touchscreen and clumsy user interface left it to boogie alone. The Toshiba TG02 definitely improves on its older sibling, but with Windows Phone 7 Series stealing the limelight and …

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to unveil the new Windows Phone 7. Marguerite Reardon/CNET BARCELONA, Spain–Steve Ballmer hopes “7” will be Microsoft’s lucky number as the company restarts its mobile business with the release of Windows Phone 7. On Monday, the CEO of Microsoft and his team of Microsoft executives took the …

With the Windows Mobile neoTouch P400 and P300 smartphones, announced at Mobile World Congress 2010, Acer pushes the enterprise angle on its mobile phones. The P300 (pictured on the left) and P400 both sport Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which adds, among other features, multitouch support and a reworked virtual keyboard. Even though version 6.5.3 is only a couple of weeks old, …

We’ve just gotten our first glimpse of the Toshiba K01, a Qwerty slider phone with a massive 4.1-inch screen. The phone is still under glass at Mobile World Congress, but Toshiba is tempting us with a 1GHz processor and HSPA connectivity. The K01 runs Windows Mobile 6.5, which felt rather dated even before Monday’s launch of Windows Phone 7 Series. …

Apple may have the iPhone, but the iPhone doesn’t have the Xbox. On Monday, Microsoft leveraged its most compelling entertainment asset, the Xbox 360, into the Windows Phone 7 Series. But what does this mean, practically speaking? (Note: If you don’t understand what the heck Windows Phone 7 is, read this first.) Here’s the official word from Microsoft on how …

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 instead. It only has Android …

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. …