Cell phone-maker ZTE showed three Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. In addition to the Gingerbread-toting ZTE Skate, which we looked at earlier, there’s the ZTE Amigo and the ZTE Blade. The Amigo has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2-megapixel camera–we’ll known much more later when we get our hands …
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14 February
Sonim shows its XP3300 Force
Sonim XP3300 Force Sonim BARCELONA, Spain–Sonim added another rugged handset to its burly lineup today when it revealed the Sonim XP3300 at Mobile World Congress. Like its earlier XP3 and XP1300 Core, the XP3300 is built to withstand just about anything. You can submerge it in 6.5 feet of water and drop it from 6.5 feet onto a concrete floor …
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14 February
MWC Day 1 Wrap
Best of MWC Day 0 and 1 (photos) +3 more See all photos BARCELONA, Spain–Mobile World Congress 2011 is off and roaring, as we finally get a chance to have some hands-on time with a few of the products announced this past weekend. But it’s not all just handset coverage; Barcelona has also become a hotbed for the latest news …
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3D on a phone? Why yes
Hands-on with the LG Optimus 3D (photos) +9 more See all photos BARCELONA, Spain–Yes, I’ve been pretty skeptical about the concept of a 3D cell phone. But to my surprise, the LG Optimus 3D actually delivers what it promises. It won’t be like watching 3D on the big screen–and frankly, there’s no reason that it should–but it offers an experience …
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RIM plans two more PlayBooks for 2011
BARCELONA, Spain–Research in Motion plans to release two more BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the second half of 2011, one with LTE and one with HSPA+ networking technology, the company announced at the Mobile World Congress here today. RIM already had announced a Wi-Fi-only tablet and one using the WiMax wireless networking technology. LTE and HSPA+, though, are much more broadly …
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Microsoft shows mobile IE9 outpacing iPhone
BARCELONA–Apple gets plenty of praise for advancing mobile browsers with its iPhone’s version of Safari, but an audience greeted its performance with some laughter as Microsoft compared it to an upcoming version of IE9 for Windows Phone 7. Joe Belfiore, a Microsoft corporate vice president, showed off the browser here at the Mobile World Congress show during a keynote speech …
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14 February
Umeox Apollo Android handset has its own built
Umeox’s new Apollo smart phone laughs in the face of low battery life. Well, it does as long as you don’t take it to Manchester. The newly announced Android handset has its own built-in solar charger, to keep it juiced with the sun’s rays as you go through the day. Not heard of Umeox? That might not be surprising: the …
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Hands on the rugged Sonim XP3300 Force (video)
Let’s see you do this, Han. Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Burly and coated in ridged rubber, the forthcoming Sonim XP3300 Force can take its share of abuse. Rugged phones are sturdy, but certainly not indestructible. That said, this “Force” fared better encased in concrete than Han Solo did in carbonite, and it also passed our dunk test. Several enhancements kick …
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LG first to mobile 3D
LG’s 3D-capable smartphone and tablet will be the first of their kind to market, and could maintain the advantage for some time. (Credit: LG/CBSi) The Korean company today announced two devices capable of creating and viewing 3D content: the Optimus 3D smartphone and the Optimus Pad tablet computer. Both devices have dual-5-megapixel stereoscopic cameras for recording 3D video at 720p, …
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14 February
Translation, mobile simplicity coming to Twitter
Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA, Spain–To make Twitter easier to use for everyone and similar across platforms the company is aiming for tighter integration with phone services and launching translation tools, Chief Executive Dick Costolo said during his keynote at the Mobile World Congress 2011 here. The company is launching a “crowd sourced” translation center for Russian, …
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