Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Morgan Reed’s bio below. In the Broadway musical “Oliver!,” orphaned Oliver Twist famously holds out his empty bowl and asks, “Please sir, may I have some more?” For those of us who make mobile applications, we feel like Oliver, holding out our virtual bowl, begging for more …
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28 February
Toshiba shrinks the AT200 tablet, adds quad
Toshiba wowed us back in September with the vanishingly thin AT200 tablet, pictured above. Only just launched in the UK, the Japanese giant’s about to unveil a follow-up at Mobile World Congress — and the good news is it’s smaller, faster and runs Ice Cream Sandwich, Pocketnow reports. We’re still awaiting an official announcement, so there’s no word on name, …
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28 February
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 arrives March 1 on Verizon
Back in January during CES (yeah, with all this Mobile World Congress stuff, it can be hard to remember), Samsung announced its tablet, the Galaxy Tab 7.7. We liked the initial look and feel of the device, and if you’re interested in purchasing one, it will be available this Thursday, March 1, on Verizon’s 4G LTE network. As CNET’s Stephen …
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28 February
Schmidt: Don’t let censorship hold back the Net’s benefits
BARCELONA, Spain–Technology is going to make it harder to be a repressive dictator, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt believes, but censorship could still create a “digital caste system” that will mean some people remain laggards in the global economy. Information inevitably will leak like water out of areas where censorship prevails, he said in a speech at the Mobile World …
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28 February
HTC One X priced at £470, coming in April
The HTC One X has been easily one of the most impressive phones at Mobile World Congress so far, and it’s heading this way soon, courtesy of Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and online retailers including Phones4U. Excellent. Retailer mobilephonesdirect.co.uk is offering the One X on T-Mobile and Vodafone for £31 per month, or pay as you go for £470 — not …
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28 February
Huawei taps Linux
BARCELONA–Chinese mobile-phone maker Huawei has joined the Tizen Association and said it plans to build phones using the open-source, Linux-based operating system. In addition, Huawei joined Tizen’s board, which also includes Intel, NEC, Casio, NTT Docomo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, SK Telecom, Telefonica, and Vodafone. The association also announced the open-source release of the Tizen beta and a Windows version of …
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28 February
iPad 3 set for 7 March launch
Get the edge of your seat warm and prepare your best excited faces — the iPad 3 is set to be unveiled at an Apple event in San Francisco on 7 March. The news came via an official Apple invite: “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” And although it sounds like something that could be whispered …
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28 February
Panasonic stakes smartphone recovery on Eluga line
BARCELONA, Spain–We now know the two Android phones on which Panasonic is pinning its hopes for a successful re-entry into the world market for mobile phones. The good news: they’re both sleek, waterproof designs with buttons tucked into the back. The bad news: they’re named “Eluga.” Maybe the name test-marketed better in Europe and Japan, where the phones will arrive …
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28 February
Asus Padfone: Turducken of the mobile world (hands
Now playing: Watch this: Asus Padfone 1:57 BARCELONA, Spain–It may be early days yet, but I’m really liking what I’m seeing so far of the Asus Padfone and Padfone Station. Or, as I like to call it, the turducken of mobile devices. The Padfone essentially mashes up the concept of the Asus Transformer Prime tablet with its docking station, and …
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28 February
XCom Global Wi
BARCELONA, Spain–Even with some significant engine trouble, it took me a day to go from zero to addicted to XCom Global‘s MiFi rental service for travelers. TheInter Communications subsidiary offers a handy service–$14.95 a day to rent a mobile MiFi network access point with unlimited data access when you’re traveling abroad. The price looks painful until you compare it to …
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