Tag: MWC

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 – Huawei Announce Ascend D & XL

Huawei have today announced the Ascend D and the XL a day before MWC is about to kick off. This is touted as being the worlds fastest smartphone with some awesome specifications. Powered by Huawei’s K3V2 quad-core 1.2GHz/1.5GHz CPU there’s more than passing resemblance to the Samsung Galaxy …

MWC – Orange gets too eager, puts HTC One X online!

The word here is “whoops”. Looks like the yet-to-be announced HTC One X is now plastered all over the Orange website for all to see… More as we get. Remember where you read this first… Link – Orange Shop Credit – Andrew Exelby

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 – A few more Nokia Lumia 610 details leaked?

BGR.in appear to have a bit more information on the Nokia 610, which we’re expecting to get final details on tomorrow morning. Their moles reckon that it’ll have a 3.2″ display and a 3 megapixel camera. Apparently this will go on sale for around €175. We’ll be live …

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 …

MWC – HTC One X Full specs leaked

Well, we knew it was going to be good, but now the full specs seem to confirm that too. More pictures of the device are now available, plus we understand that new owners will get themselves 25 GB of Dropbox storage completely free for two years. FullGSM have …

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, …

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. …

HTC promise us ‘something authentic’

Another little snippet of news from HTC today! Their official facebook page is currently advertising that this Sunday, a day before the Mobile World Congress, that we will hear about something authentic from HTC. What could it be? Well it was accompanied by this image… My guess? Well it sounds like …

HTC One X breaks cover – First press shot

The Mobile World Congress is getting closer and closer which means it seems to get harder and harder to keep things under wraps, the impressive HTC One X (Endeavour) being the latest device to get a leak. We ran a few stories about its name change (here) and its …

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 …

HTC Prepare for launch

It looks like the HTC Facebook team are starting to drip-feed info about their upcoming Mobile World Congress launch this Sunday. This image, coupled with the text, “This Sunday you’ll discover something fast.” We’ll be reporting live from the event, so tune in for the latest. Link – …

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 …

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 …

The Countdown To Mobile World Congress

Next Sunday (26th) we have the unofficial start to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…. why unofficial? Well the real conference starts on the 27th but every year more and more manufacturers want to show off their new gadgets a day early, and this year is no different with …

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 …

Xperia S – Light belt tells you what’s happening

Over on Facebook the Sony Ericsson guys have posted a close-up of the Sony Xperia S and highlights the “illuminating transparent belt”. We saw this earlier in our in-depth look but it seems that it’s not just a funky part of the design. It’s a notification light, and …

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 …

Sony ST25i Kumquat leaked image

One of the phones on the leaked Sony roadmap is called the Sony ST25i “Kumquat” and we figured it would be quite small just because of the name. The lovely people at the Xperia Blog have received a leaked picture of it and it seems to maintain the …

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 …

Pricing and more – Motorola Atrix on Orange

The Motorola Atrix will arrive on Orange in early May for free on £35 per month plans over 24 months. This deal includes 600 minutes, 750MB internet allowance, 50 MMS and unlimited texts. If you buy the Atrix Orange will also offer a “Work and Play” kit which …

HTC Event – Watch it all again here

Apple event? What Apple event? 😉 A couple of weeks back we streamed the big HTC event in Barcelona live. It got a number of you watching but, if you missed it, there’s now a YouTube recording of the whole thing. HTC revealed several handsets, all of which …

Motorola Atrix Video Overview

We managed to get hands on again with the Motorola Atrix during Mobile World Congress and I was lucky to have arranged some time with a member of the team to give us a quick walk through the Motorola Atrix and the docks which are available and also how they …

LG Booth Tour @ MWC

We were lucky enough to be given a near 20 minute tour of the LG booth with one of the reps there, no having to fight through crowds of people to get hands on with the devices, they brought them to us and gave us a talk through …