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Alcaltel announce 4 new phones New 300Mbps LTE Mifi from Huawei Hands On with the Huawei MediaPad X1 Hands On with the Huawei Ascend G6 Huawei announce MediaPad X1 Huawei Event – LiveBlog Hands on with Acer Liquid Z4 Hands on with Acer Liquid E3 Samsung Gear 2 …
Alcatel announced 2 new phones today each with 2 versions so you have a 4G and a 3G option available of both the Idol 2 and Idol 2 Mini First of all is the larger Idol 2 device which the 3G version includes a 5 inch qHD display, …
Huawei have been busy recently and something they are well know for apart from smartphones is great networking solutions with mobile broadband products. Today they announced a new MiFi router that is the fastest in the world supporting Cat6 LTE, thats a peak of 300Mbps! At the moment …
Also announced today is the Huawei MediaPad X1, a sort of massive phone small tablet combination but does have some very interesting specifications from the 80% screen size to the to being the thinnest small tablet available at just 7.18mm thin, thats 30% lighter than an iPad Mini! …
Huawei just announced in Barcelona the new Ascend G6 smartphone with is the upgraded model of the P6 and packs in faster downloading speeds thanks to Cat4 LTE so speeds up to 150Mbps if the network supports it but still keeps the premium design and feel. The G6 …
Live post being updated at Mobile World a Congress 2014 Post updating….. Huawei are the number 3 manufacturer now by numbers for the end of last year Andrew Connell the CMO of Europe announced there will be a new mifi called the E5786 LTE Cat6 technology for 300mbps …
So I have arrived at the circus that is Mobile World Congress once again and am preparing myself for a week of running around from hall to hall, snapping as many photos and videos as possible for everyone to share the experience. This will be the fifth MWC …
For those of you who’ve heard me banging on about this “MWC” thing for days, let’s just give you a bit of background. Mobile World Congress, or MWC for short, is a rather huge event held yearly in Barcelona. New handsets are launched, services are announced, accessories are …
MWC is so close you can almost smell it and manufacturers are releasing information beforehand to save themselves time next week. ZTE are one of these and they’ve sent us information about two new devices. The ZTE Grand Memo LTE and the Firefox OS equipped Open C. Adam …
We’re seeing a little more of the HTC One successor every day. What we’re not seeing though, is a launch event. Still no news about what HTC are doing at Mobile World Congress, even though it’s looking like this will be their new device and it’ll probably be …
Need I say more really? Eldar Murtazin has a long history of correctly predicting these things, and indeed his information on the Samsung Galaxy S4 launch last year was spot on. According to information revealed in his latest tweet, we can expect the all-new Samsung Galaxy S5 to …
Another Alcatel handset with a dual-SIM version and it’s this – the One Touch Star. Shock, horror, there’s only one version of this particular device (Alcatel are famed for making several flavours of each device). This one is a sort-of mid-range puppy with a 5 megapixel shooter (plus …
I usually approach the Alcatel stand each year with a sense of foreboding. They usually have a humongous selection of new handsets and they’re as confusing as heck. This year, it’s slightly less confusing. There’s still a couple of different versions of the same handsets such as we …
Billed as an “affordable” and “capable”, this is the more entry-level handset made by Gigabyte for Orange. Powered by Android 4.1 it has a dual-core 1GHz CPU and microSD. There’s a 4″ 480×800 pixel screen and a 5 megapixel camera at the back with 720p HD video capture. …
This, the second Orange device we’re looking at today, is the San Remo. This is probably the best looking of the bunch and is made by Alcatel. This one packs a 4.7″ 540×960 pixel display and is powered by Android 4.1 on a dual-core 1GHz CPU with 4GB …
We took a look at the three Orange handsets that were announced a few days back at MWC. Two of them, the Orange Lumo and the Orange Nivo, are made by Gigabyte, whilst the Orange Remo is made by Alcatel. First, let’s take a look at the Orange …
Connectivity out here in Barcelona is always part of our planning when we do these trips. A local SIM came to our rescue this time, but there’s also the option of unlimited roaming data packages from the odd UK network provider. What has surprised me, as someone who …
The Microsoft stand this year took a very different appearance. It’s relatively small and carpeted, but has no logos, staff or products on display. The same can be said for the Android / Google stand, which is similarly sparse with a distinct lack of free drinks and snacks …
We knew about the Huawei Ascend W1, and this morning we found out that O2 are picking it up. You can get one of these Windows Phone 8 devices for £120 from next month on Pay and Go or just £13.50 per month on contracts. Inside there’s a …
ASUS yesterday announced their latest PadFone device called the Infinity. This interesting touch screen phone with tablet docking station is the third in the PadFone series and is easily the best one yet from the 1080p screen to LTE connectivity and beautiful design. This was my first ever …
Last week we were in London for the launch of this, the HTC One. The launch event was pretty crowded and, although we got a video demo and some pictures, I asked the guys at the HTC stand to give us a full run-through of every new feature …
Following the press launch we’ve now got full details of the ZTE Grand Memo. It’s got a monster 5.7″ screen and runs the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU (quad-core Krait 1.5GHz) CPU that has only just recently been launched. That display is a 720×1280 pixel resolution and there’s …
You know what it’s like. You walk into an electrical store and you want to get some speakers to work with your new Samsung Galaxy SIII or Galaxy Note. But when you look around the store all you can find are iPhone docks, speaker docks and random Bluetooth …
Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8 on Sunday, and there are plenty of units here at the Samsung stand. The device feels good, and is quite light, and for some strange reason is capable of taking phone whilst used as a handset. Yes, an 8″ handset. Crackers, as …
OK, we’re confused. Sure, it’s bad enough trying to pronounce the company (is it He-oo-wii or Ho-wah-way or He-oo-way or somewhere in between?) Now.. now we have this.. errr.. picture. The jury is out on what exactly it is. Perhaps an egg gently nestling between two firm, round.. …
In just over one week the first member of the CoolSmartPhone team will be arriving in sunny Barcelona to prepare for the chaos that is Mobile World Congress. This year will be the biggest one so far for us here for a few reasons. First of all there …
We’re pretty much expecting the HTC M7 on February 19th but, like things do at this time of year, leaks are revealing a little more. Two additional HTC devices could be on the way – the HTC M4 and the HTC G2. Wait, the G2? Surely we’ve seen …
HTC is up to something. Barcelona and the huge Mobile World Congress event is now just weeks away. It’s going to be bigger than ever and the competition to have your new phone hitting headlines is fierce. In those few days at MWC there’s press release after press …
We’ve covered the Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy X Cover 2 but now there’s more evidence emerging of their existence. TechnoBuffalo have leaked slides which firm up the specs and confirm that the Note 8 will be available in March while the Galaxy X Cover 2 will be …
Today I took a flick through some of the shots we took at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and found a few we’d not published. When you look at the snaps below you could definitely be forgiven for thinking about those T-shirts on the local market. You know …
Remember the Solana tablet / laptop combo we mentioned recently? It’s from Novero so we popped along to see them today. The demo unit they showed us is still in the early stages but switches in a similar fashion to the ViewSonic VIewpad we saw last year. As …
The Xperia S has the largest screen in the NXT range at 4.3″ (720×1280) and is seen here running Android 2.3, although ICS will be along shortly via an upgrade. It’s got a powerful 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, NFC and a 12 megapixel camera around the back plus another …
The Santa Clara is, it turns out, just a codename at the moment. So perhaps, just perhaps, it might appear as the Orange London we thought it would? Powered by a rather rapid Intel Atom Z2460 1.6GHz CPU, this has 16GB of memory, HD voice, NFC, 1080p HDMI …
The Panasonic ELUGA Power has just been announced (press release below) so it definitely warrants some hands-on time. It’s waterproof and has a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core 1.5GHz CPU. In the hand it selt very well build and thin too (9.6mm), despite the large 128×720 HD 5″ screen, which …
The ELUGA was announced about a week ago by Panasonic. It has a new big brother too, the ELUGA Power. We’ll have snaps of that in a moment. Like Fujitsu, Panasonc have decided to ensure that phones are waterproof. It’s an interesting to note that networks can prefer …
Missing some Mobile World Congress information? Want to know all about the CBOSS girls but can’t find the story? Are you looking for our first unboxing of the Xperia S? Maybe the HTC One Series pictures? Don’t worry, we’ve got all our coverage right here and down the …
This afternoon we went for a stroll around the Google Android stand. They’re giving away Ice Cream Sandwiches, drinks and the usual Android key-chains. It is extremely busy. Around the stand they’re showing off apps and services that use the Android platform, plus you get to pick up …
The Lumia 900 is not a handset which was announced at Mobile World Congress this year, it was announced at CES in Las Vegas back in January as a AT&T LTE exclusive device for their new network. What Nokia have done though is replace the LTE radio with …
Check this out. Good yes? A flying horse, right there in the middle of Mobile World Congress, looking down over the Fira. However, get a little closer and you may notice something. It’s actually made from Huawei Ascend D phones. Dozens and dozens Hundreds of them, all attached …
So Dan has got some great hands-on time over the last days and has uploaded some great pictures following the announcement. There’s also some great Lumia 900 shots too. We were both taking photos without realising it, so I’ve ended up with a number of additional photos which …
