As you probably know by now, HTC has officially unveiled its first Android tablet, the 7-inch Flyer. With all the major players recently announcing new tablets, it was only a matter of time before the Taiwanese manufacturer threw its hat into the ring. In terms of hardware, it has pretty much everything we were expecting. …

Think Foursquare is just about bagging the mayorship to your local kebab house or getting a discount on your Starbucks coffee? Think again. The social location service wants you to shape up, and wish your friends a happy birthday. Its VP of mobile and partnerships, Holger Luedorf, explained Foursquare’s moral purpose in a social-networking panel this afternoon at Mobile World …

The oft-quoted DigiTimes, a Taiwanese tech industry favorite publication, has revealed that Apple is outsourcing the production of its A5 processor chip, which many expect will be based on the ARM Cortex A9 design and used in the forthcoming iPhone 5, to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. AppleInsider reports that Apple’s A4 chip is currently produced by Samsung Electronics, but the …

BARCELONA, Spain–With Apple, Samsung, LG, and Motorola all entering the tablet space, you had to know HTC would join them sooner or later, so we can’t say we were completely surprised when the Taiwanese handset manufacturer unveiled its first tablet today at Mobile World Congress 2011. Everyone, meet the HTC Flyer. This Android 2.4 2.3-based tablet features a 7-inch Super …

The HTC Desire and its desirable siblings will receive an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but owners could be facing a long wait. The current Desire range won’t be updated until after the new Desire S launches in spring. A HTC representative confirmed that the phones would be upgrading to Gingerbread during our natter at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but he …

Having bagged an award at CES in January, RealNetworks’ Unifi service is already drawing quite a buzz ahead of its launch later this year. We sat down for a hands-on demo with Unifi this morning at Mobile World Congress, and came away impressed. Here’s the problem it’s designed to solve: you have photos, music and videos scattered across a range …

HTC has delivered a truckload of brand-new smart phones this morning at Mobile World Congress, including two new mobiles built around Facebook. We reckon the HTC Salsa is the hero of the two — the Qwerty-sporting HTC ChaCha is definitely the hip-swinging sidekick. But the Salsa has a real social-networking rival in the shape of the new INQ Cloud Touch …

The T-Mobile G-Slate is the U.S. version of the LG Optimus Pad. Bonnie Cha/CNET It’s not just handsets and smartphones at this year’s Mobile World Congress; tablets made their way to Barcelona, Spain, as well, despite some people’s opinion that tablets aren’t really mobile. As an echo to CES this year, Mobile World Congress proved once again that 2011 is …

ViewSonic pegs the ViewPad 4 as equal parts phone and tablet. ViewSonic ViewSonic Europe is in Barcelona this week where it’s showing off the latest addition to its ViewPad family. Joining its 7-inch and 10-inch siblings, the 4.1-inch ViewPad 4 is expected to be on the short list of Android devices running Android 2.3 Gingerbread when it debuts. Currently listed …

Forget the Facebook Phone, which remains a thing of myth, but how about a Twitter Phone? CEO Dick Costolo rubbished the idea in his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress yesterday, saying that he’d rather see more mobile manufacturers make Twitter a key feature in their handsets instead. “I believe there is a need [to better integrate] Twitter in existing …