Meet HTC’s brand new flagship superphone, the One M9. Andrew Hoyle/CNET HTC unveiled a slew of products Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, including a new version of its One flagship smartphone, a virtual reality headset and a fitness band. HTC’s new One M9sports a metal body with a gold and silver finish, …

Now playing: Watch this: SanDisk crams 200GB into a tiny microSD card 1:51 BARCELONA — Flash memory specialist SanDisk hopes you’ll be taking a lot of photos and videos with your smartphone. At the Mobile World Congress show here, the company announced a range of storage products geared for folks whose phones and tablets just don’t have enough storage space. …

Though the world’s biggest mobile tradeshow hasn’t offically begun yet, Sunday was a big day for announcements. Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Alcatel, Mozilla and Nokia all held events to bring everyone up to date on what’s next for them. And of course, there was a boatload of new products. Here are the highlights of the day’s news and events. (Or all …

The Android-powered Huawei Watch is designed to bring a more classical look to the smartphone market. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Huawei debuted its first smartwatch Sunday, upgrading its mobile device ambitions with an Android Wear-powered model designed to look as much as possible like a classical round-face timepiece. “People prefer the traditional classical watch, but today, smartwatches are not traditional,” …

The new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge will work with Samsung Pay. Josh Miller/CNET BARCELONA–Now it’s Samsung’s turn to take a stab at mobile payments. The world’s largest smartphone manufacturer on Sunday unveiled Samsung Pay, its own take on allowing you to pay for goods and services by waving your smartphone near the register instead of swiping a credit …

Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge design compared with S5, S4 and… 1:26 If you’re one of the horde of smartphone fans baying for Samsung to ditch its reliance on creaky plastic, your protests have been heard — with the all-new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge , Samsung has abandoned its traditional plastic construction in favour of …

Lynn La/CNET Withings’ stylish fitness trackers, the Activite and the Activite Pop , can now sync with Android phones, the company announced at Mobile World Congress 2015. The two smartwatch and fitness tracker hybrids were only compatible with iOS at first, but now Android owners can use them, too. Not only will the Withings Health Mate Android app sync with …

BARCELONA–A flagship Lumia smartphone from Microsoft is coming. Just not today. Stephen Elop at Mobile World Congress in 2014. Sarah Tew/CNET Stephen Elop, head of Microsoft’s devices business, promised to bring out a flagship smartphone later this year, timed with the launch of Windows 10. The company has yet to say when the new operating system would launch. Microsoft, the …

Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) An electric toothbrush app, a digital whiteboard, a smart bicycle accessory and a student-designed medical sensor are the Bluetooth Breakthrough Award winners for 2015. The winners, acknowledging achievement in Bluetooth-compatible hardware and software in four categories — apps, products, prototypes and student-created initiatives — were chosen by a small panel of CNET editors. (CNET is …

The Fleksy keyboard app, wearing a few different themes. The app can be had free by Samsung Galaxy S6 owners. Fleksy Owners of Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 smartphone can start training for the world speed-texting championships with no need to buy extra gewgaws — except maybe some highly caffeinated energy drinks and a crate or two of screen cleaner. That’s …