Startup Audience currently specializes in improving audio quality for higher-end phones–the iPhone 4 and 4S, most notably–but now it’s going down market. The company sells small chips that process phones’ microphone signals with technology it calls EarSmart designed to identify the person speaking and filter out everything else. It’s good for voice calls, obviously, but …
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27 February
ZTE Era joins ICS gang, Kis and Acqua stick on Gingerbread
The ZTE Era comes packing Ice Cream Sandwich and a quad-core processor, the company announced this morning at Mobile World Congress, while its new Kis and Acqua phones pootle along on Android Gingerbread. So there’s plenty to choose from at the new-look ZTE buffet. But which is for you? ZTE is showing it can mix with the big boys, with …
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27 February
Samsung: ‘We’re not doing very well in the tablet market’
BARCELONA, Spain–Samsung Electronics admitted that its attempt to breach the tablet market has largely been a flop, with one executive offering a sobering summary of its performance. “Honestly, we’re not doing very well in the tablet market,” Hankil Yoon, a product strategy executive for Samsung, said today during a media roundtable here. That’s about as frank a statement as it …
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27 February
HTC One X is a quad
Now playing: Watch this: HTC One X hands-on 1:32 HTC has charged forth into Mobile World Congress this year with all guns blazing and a mighty quad-core monster at the helm. Rich Trenholm bravely went hands-on with its beastly new blower, the HTC One X, at the annual phone expo in Barcelona. You can take a good old gawp at …
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27 February
Spotlight on: Samsung Galaxy S Advance, Mini 2, Ace Plus (video)
Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S Advance 1:02 BARCELONA, Spain–Amid all the Samsung Galaxy devices shown so far at MWC, these three barely saw the spotlight, if at all. Well, it’s time to turn on the diva lights for the Samsung Galaxy S Advance, Samsung Galaxy Mini 2, and Samsung Ace Plus, even if for just a minute. Now …
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27 February
Huawei claims first
Chinese electronics company Huawei just made bold claims at MWC when its chairman, Richard Yu, said the Ascend D Quad is the world’s fastest phone. Naming another milestone, Huawei has announced plans for the first 10-inch tablet powered by a quad-core processor. Called the MediaPad10 FHD, the slate uses a similar 1.5GHz K3 CPU Huawei expects to place in the …
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27 February
Telstra launches first 4G tablet
Telstra and Samsung have today announced the availability of Australia’s first 4G tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. Telstra’s first 4G tablet, the Galaxy Tab 8.9. (Credit: Samsung) Telstra will offer a 16GB version of the tablet outright for AU$720, and will soon range a 32GB model for AU$840. Customers can also pay off the cost of the tablet over …
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27 February
Nokia Lumia 610 is official, coming this spring
We saw it leak a couple of weeks ago, but now Nokia has lifted the lid on the Lumia 610, the most affordable Windows Phone to date. And it’ll be here in the spring, which is good news if you want to get in on the Windows Phone action this season without breaking the bank. It has a 3.7-inch LCD …
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27 February
Mobile World Congress Day 2: What you missed
BARCELONA, Spain–Even though the first day of Mobile World Congress rolled out some nice phones that we’re still talking about, the handsets that debuted the very next day did not fail to impress. While LG, Samsung, and Huawei still had enough tricks up their sleeves to announce more new products, it was Nokia’s unveiling of five phones that took up …
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27 February
Nokia adds three devices to its Asha family: The 202, 203, and 302
During Nokia’s Mobile World Congress press conference Sunday night, the phone company announced three new additions to its low-end family of phones: the Asha 202, 203, and 302. The Asha 202 can hold two SIM cards. Nokia The Asha 202 and 203 will come prepackaged with 40 EA games that you can download within 60 days from your first game …
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