February, 2012

• 27 February

  Mobile payment JV Isis signs up credit card allies

  

  BARCELONA, Spain–Isis, a mobile-payments joint venture among three of the major wireless carriers, is taking the slow and steady approach to its mobile wallet. And it appears to be working. An image of the Isis mobile wallet. Isis The venture, formed from an alliance between Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA, said today that BarclayCard, …

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• 27 February

  Google says 850K Android devices activated each day

  

  BARCELONA, Spain–The momentum for Android continues to build, with 850,000 phones and tablets getting activated each day. That’s according to Google Android chief Andy Rubin, who unveiled the statistic on his Google+ page today. Like most other major wireless players, he was in attendance at Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest wireless trade show. “Walking around Mobile World Congress and …

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• 27 February

  AT&T to have app developers pick up bandwidth tab?

  

  AT&T is considering a new system in which mobile app developers and publishers would pay for the wireless bandwidth associated with using the apps and downloading content. “A feature that we’re hoping to have out sometime next year is the equivalent of 800 numbers that would say, if you take this app, this app will come without any network usage,” …

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• 27 February

  Facebook aims to whip the mobile Web into shape

  

  BARCELONA–Facebook would like to build more mobile Web apps and fewer mobile native apps. Really, it would — but browsers just aren’t up to it, the company has concluded. Web apps naturally span the multitudes of mobile devices that Facebook loves to run on, but they support Web standards so inconsistently that it’s a developer’s nightmare, said Facebook Chief Technology …

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• 27 February

  Nokia unveils Lumia 610 and the 900 goes global

  

  If you’ve already been drooling over Nokia’s Lumia family these past few months, get ready for the manufacturer’s newest addition to the lineup: the Lumia 610. The Nokia Lumia 610 is the fourth Lumia model. Nokia The 610 is aimed toward a younger audience and will be one of the first few phones to run Windows Phone Tango. It will …

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• 27 February

  Nokia Lumia 900 coming to the UK this spring

  

  The Lumia 900 is heading for the UK, Nokia announced at Mobile World Congress this morning. The 900, which has been in the US for a while, is LTE-enabled for faster browsing, but will also be coming to countries like Blighty where 4G isn’t yet active in a ‘DC-HSPA’ variant. That means it’ll run smoothly on our boring old 3G …

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• 27 February

  Telefonica: Mozillaphone is ‘ten times cheaper than an iPhone’

  

  BARCELONA–Half of Telefonica’s customers are in Latin America, where smartphones are scarcer than in wealthier parts of the world. But the mobile network operator hopes Mozilla’s new browser-based operating system, B2G, will change that. “What we’re selling the most in these countries is feature phones, which is ridiculous, said Carlos Domingo, Telefonica Digital’s director of product development and innovation, in …

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• 27 February

  Samsung Galaxy S3 specs leaked: quad

  

  The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the most keenly awaited smart phone since a certain iPhone 5 failed to make an appearance last year. Well it’s one step closer to becoming reality, as we have a spec list right here. And the big news is it has a 1080p screen, quad-core processor, and Android Ice Cream Sandwich, according to BGR’s sources. …

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• 27 February

  Microsoft goes after the 99 percenters with Windows Phone

  

  BARCELONA, Spain–Microsoft wants to be known as the people’s smartphone company. The software giant said today that it had lowered the minimum requirements to build a Windows Phone, a move that allows vendors to construct less-expensive devices that can appeal to more budget-conscious customers and first-time smartphone buyers. The shift represents an attempt to expand Microsoft’s addressable market, vital to …

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• 27 February

  Sony Xperia U twinkles prettily in hands

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Sony Xperia U hands-on 1:07 Sony’s recent buy-out of Ericsson has seen a return to the company producing phones marketed only under the Sony brand. Our mobile phones editor, Natasha Lomas, went hands-on with the baby of its newest range, the Sony Xperia U, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Xperia U may be dinky …

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