Tag: mobile world congress

MWC – ViewSonic announce their next Generation range of 7” and 10” ViewPads

ViewSonic have also announced their new range of tablets at MWC. Here are some details about their new tablets. Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 26th February 2012 – ViewSonic, a global provider of computing, consumer electronics and communications solutions, today announced the launch of its next generation 7” and 10” …

MWC – Nokia Announce Lumia 900 Worldwide

Nokia have just announced the Lumia 900 will ship worldwide from April starting in Canada. Unlocked-mobiles will be selling it for £445.98 and it’s due to arrive on May 21st, so there’s a bit of a wait yet.. It’ll be available in black, cyan and white and has …

MWC – Nokia Announce Lumia 610

Nokia have just announced the Lumia 610 which is a new low-end Windows Phone from Nokia. Available in white, cyan, magenta or black the new Lumia 610 has an 800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 CPU, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and runs Windows Phone 7.5 Inside there’s 256MB of RAM …

MWC – HTC One X Up close

OK, we got some great shots of all three HTC devices last night. First up, the big one – the HTC One X. This will sell unlocked (according to Clove, who are selling the white and grey one unlocked) for £492 and expect to see it everywhere – …

MWC – The HTC One Series

We’ll have a bucket-load of information for you shortly on all the goings-on last night here in Barcelona. The beer flowed, the chocolate-dipped strawberries were passed around and there were people dancing on a stage. In amongst it all HTC took the wraps off their new HTC One …

MWC – Galaxy Note 10.1 Now official

You get to see some pretty interesting sights on the streets of Barcelona after dark. Here’s another Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 poster, and this time it’s not hiding much either. The reason ? It’s now official. That 10.1 screen is of the WXGA (1280×800) PLS TFT variety and …

Vodafone to sell HTC One X & S

Vodafone have also just announced they will stock the HTC One S and X here in the UK.  No information as of yet with regards to a price or release date but at least we know it is coming to the UK network  HTC Onex  Set to become …

MWC – HTC Event LIVE

Watch it right here. We’re just sitting down and things are a little hectic but we should have the full stream online in minutes. Update – We had several thousand people watching the stream. Many thanks for your support. The original live footage we shot can be seen …

MWC – Immerse yourself in the Mobile World Congress

So, the HTC One X is no longer on the Orange website, but it’s just a matter of hours now until HTC properly unveil some of their big 2012 handsets. We spotted their logo whilst sunning ourselves outside the Fira, so elbowed our way through the crowds to …

MWC – Nokia Lumia 610 Leaked Colours

Looks like a new Nokia Lumia has leaked before it’s official announcement tomorrow here in Barcelona.  The new low end Nokia device is expected to run Tango OS which will also be talked more about tomorrow by Microsoft. Red, Silver, Black and Blue… sorry.. Cyan are the ones …

MWC – Galaxy Note 10.1 Lurking in the shadows

We kinda expected it, but this image seems to now confirm the fact that we’ll be seeing the 10.1″ version of the Galaxy Note on the Samsung stand here in Barcelona. We’ll be heading over there shortly to get singer hands-on time, so check back for more information. …

MWC – Samsung Galaxy Beam.. it’s back!

Remember the Galaxy Beam from Samsung ? Two years ago it promised big-screen entertainment by projecting images from your smartphone to a wall or other flat surface. It wasn’t wildly successful but Samsung have fiddled around with it and released this new version, complete with a 4″ 400×800 …

MWC – Samsung announce the 10.1″ Galaxy Tab 2

So, hot on the heels of their new 7″ Galaxy Tab 2 comes this, the larger 10.1″ version. This has a 1280×800 pixel screen with “PLS technology” which basically makes the screen clearer and viewable from more angles. Running Android 4.0 (ICS), this will also have the TouchWiz …

Acer announce the Liquid Glow

Acer are really pushing for good things at MWC next week. They have today announced another handset that they will showing off next week. The Acer Liquid Glow is going to be a WVGA display type device, it will have a 5 megapixel camera, LED flash, panoramic capture, …

Is an Xperia Play 2 on the horizon?

Was it really a year ago that we saw the original Xperia Play? Rumours of a follow-up have now hit the web, with this image appearing on a site called “Concept Phones“.. hmmm.. is it merely just a … concept phone then? The site begs to differ, saying …

Orange add the Xperia S to Coming Soon pages

Well, we knew that Orange were taking the Xperia S, but now things have moved a step closer with the new Sony Mobile proudly sitting on the “Coming Soon” section. We’re hearing very good things about this phone, and we can’t wait to take a look in Barcelona. …

8 ZTE Phones At Mobile World Congress

It looks like ZTE are upping their game with 8 new devices to be announced or shown off at this years Mobile World Congress. The event kicks off in just a few days time in Barcelona and we’ll be on site with the latest news. ZTE really are …

LG Optimus 3D Max on the way to MWC too

LG have already told us about plenty of new devices this week. They’ll grace the LG stand in Barcelona while we run around the event shouting, “Phones! Phones! Phones!” The 3D Max, which we knew was on the way some time ago, is now confirmed to appear and …

Optimus Vu, now in video

Oh look it’s the Samsung Galaxy Note. Wait a minute, no, it’s the new LG Optimus Vu popping out for another video. Up-close, this is starting to look rather sexy indeed. The Vu has a 5″ screen with a 1024×768 IPS resolution and an 8 megapixel camera. We’ll …

LG L-Style handsets get announced

These.. err.. moody ladies are here to show off the new handsets from LG. They, like many others, appear to have decided that launching phones ahead of Mobile World Congress is the thing to do. The Optimus L3, Optimus L5 and Optimus L7 will all unsurprisingly have the …

Just what is Mobile World Congress?

I know, for the tech-hungry phone lovers out there this might seem like a weird question. In just a matter of days you WILL see an explosion of Twitter hash-tags (#mwc #mobileworldcongress) and more news items per hour than at any other time of year. Put simply, Mobile …

Galaxy mini 2 and Galaxy Ace 2 made official

It looks like that earlier leaked info has now become clearer, with Samsung adding details of the Galaxy Ace 2 (above) and Galaxy mini 2 (below) online.  Powered by Android 2.3, the Ace 2 should arrive here in April and the mini 2 probably at around the same …

LG Optimus Vu Announced

LG have today announced their answer to the Galaxy Note and it is called the LG Optimus Vu which was leaked recently but has now been officially announced just a week before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where we will be in attendance to bring you some hands on impressions …

HTC One X – Further specs revealed

A few more specs for you on the upcoming HTC Endeavour / HTC Endeavor / HTC Edge / HTC Supreme / HTC One X. MoDaCo reckon it’ll be super-thin and there’ll be just two physical buttons on the device – a power button and volume rocker. For everything …

HTC Endeavor and Ville to be known as the One X and One S?

New Barcelona-bound handsets from HTC look set to have another name change if rumours are correct. The Endeavor, which should of course be called the “Endeavour”, has already been spotted as the HTC Edge and we heard it might get called the “Supreme”. Now it looks like this …

LG X3 Detailed, heading to Mobile World Congress

It looks like we’ve got another LG device heading to Mobile World Congress. Hot on the heels of the LG CX2 is the LG X3 and, by the looks of the naming convention, we assume that they should either be the LG X2 and LG X3 or LG …

LG Optimus Vu snapped

Mobile World Congress = Leaks. The LG Optimus Vu, a handset with a 5″ screen, has now been pictured here next to the Samsung Galaxy Note. Oh, and if you want to get a rough idea on how large it is, have a look at our Galaxy Note …

Galaxy Mini 2 set to arrive at Mobile World Congress?

This, according to the leaked image obtained by GSM Arena , is the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2. The device, which will also be known as the S6500, looks set to be a mid-to-low end device with a launch at Mobile World Congress. Specs, as you can see, include …

Further confirmation on the HTC Edge / HTC Endeavor

Details of the HTC Endeavor (which should, here in the UK, be “Endeavour”) have been posted over at MoDaCo. We’ve heard about this a while back now, and expect it to be the “official” name for the HTC Edge. Although there’s not really any additional info, it at …

HTC Q4 Results. Celebrations put on ice

It’s been a tough old year for HTC. Their fourth quarter results were down 2.49% year-on-year. Worse still, they’re down 53% since January 2011 and total revenue looks set to drop by another 36% in the first quarter of this year. The problems? It seems that during 2011 …

Breaking – Galaxy SIII Confirmed

We’ve just had this comment from Samsung which confirms the successor to the rather wonderful Galaxy SII. We will, as usual, be reporting live from Mobile World Congress but it looks like we will have to wait a little longer for the SIII because its just not ready …

No change – Xperia S still due in March

We were pretty surprised and pretty much ignored earlier indications that the Xperia S was set to arrive on Play.com in January. We’ve had contact from Sony Ericsson to confirm that the release date is, and always has been, March. The guys at Play.com have now altered the …

Sony Tapioca – More details revealed

A few days back we saw a rather large list of leaked Sony (Ericsson) handsets. One was called the “Tapioca”, aka the ST21i. It’s now stated to have a single-core 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 4GB ROM and runs Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread). Other specs include a 3.2″ HVGA (320×480) …

Samsung are rumoured to not announce the Galaxy S3 at MWC

The Verge have reported that people they know, know people at Samsung and those people at Samsung are delaying the release of the Samsung Galaxy S3. It was expected that Samsung would announce it at MWC in Barcelona at the end of February. But now it sounds like …

HTC Getting ready for MWC

More power! Single core CPU’s? Pah, they’re yesterdays news. Digitimes reckon that HTC will be rocking up in Barcelona with many disk and quad-core CPU’s inside their spanky new phones. The HTC Edge is going to be one of them but there’s now rumours of Tegra 3 (quad …

Windows Phone 7 at Mobile World Congress 2011

In the interests of fairness we decided to take a look around the Windows Phone 7 stand today. It sits in hall one and is roughly opposite the HTC stand. Sadly for both companies they’re dangerously close to the infamous CBOSS stand which you’ll see in the video …

HTC win Device Manufacturer of the Year at MWC 2011

HTC have just been awarded the 2011 Device Manufacturer of the year by GSMA. It follows another successful year for the company which has beaten Apple and Sumsung to the title. CEO of HTC, Peter Chou, stated.. “For HTC to be recognized by the industry in this way …

Mobile World Congress – The low-down

Over the next few days you’ll see a lot of news relating to Mobile World Congress or “MWC”. What though, is this event all about? It’s a very good question. Held in Barcelona at the Fira de Barcelona this event has been running for a good few years …

HTC Countdown to Mobile World Congress

The build-up to Mobile World Congress continues. HTC have now added a countdown timer to the big announcements on their Facebook page. It states that “Big things are happening” and teases with the line “Any ideas on what we are up to?” So far we’re expecting a possible …