While the focus has been on Intel’s partnership with various companies on the creation of the new Ultrabook category of laptops here at MWC they are talking about a very different kind of partnership. This time, they are talking about new partnerships that will grow their presence in the exploding worldwide smartphone market. Just one [...]
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Hands On with the Sony Xperia Ion and the Xperia P
After the mob scene Helena and I had encountered at the Sony Press Conference the other night, it was refreshing to have a one-on-one session with Alistair and Tobias from Sony. Tobias just happened to have the just announced Sony Xperia P and the upcoming (this summer) Xperia Ion on him, and he didn’t mind giving us [...]
Get Your iBling On With this Gold-Plated iPad
The 64GB 3G iPad runs $830 new. That’s certainly not inexpensive but, at least in my humble opinion, it is worth every penny. But what if you didn’t want your iPad to look like every other iPad and you had money to burn? Judie found the answer in the airport yesterday as she arrived in [...]
Nokia PureView Brings 41MP of Camera Goodness to a Phone
If you thought 12MP was overkill you ain’t seen nothing yet. At MWC Nokia announced the Nokia 808 PureView camera. It sports a whopping 41megapixels. And it isn’t just the megapixels that stand out. No, there’s a lot more going on here. As the Nokia Press Release explains, The Nokia 808 PureView features a large, [...]
With Huawei MediaPad 10F HD Tablets Go QuadCore
If you thought dual-core tablets were speedy wait until you check out what Huawei just announced. The Huawei MediaPad 10F HD is a fast-performing tablet with unsurpassed audio-visual entertainment features including a Huawei 1.5GHz quad-core processor, Google Android 4.0 operating system and a 10-inch IPS high-definition display screen. Let’s repeat those specs- the 10″ tablet [...]
Sandisk MWC iNAND Extreme and Mobile Experience Announcements
Today at MWC Sandisk made a couple of announcements. First, they announced that their iNand Extreme embedded Flash memory will be included on Windows 8 development platforms from companies such as Intel, Qualcomm and TI. Here is a snip from that press release: Companies such as Intel Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) [...]
Nokia Makes a Number of Big Announcements at MWC
Nokia had a number of announcements from their huge MWC press conference. Here are a few of the highlights with links to the Nokia site covering each of the items: Nokia advances on its new strategic direction, rolls out range of new mobile devices and services Nokia has extended the range of products with Windows [...]
The Asus Transformer Prime and PadFone Offer a New Definition of “Convergence”
Judie is at the ASUS Press Conference in Barcelona. Right now she is listening to the CEO of ASUS. The big news here? The Asus Transformer Pad Prime and the PadFone.
Check Out the Glympse Location Software at MWC
One of the areas in which smartphone software competition has been especially fierce–or so it seems to me–is in the area of navigation. What with most smartphones now GPS-enabled (or at least emulating such), lots of folks have jumped into the pond with everything from your basic line-on-a-map to highly-detailed and expensive voice turn-by-turn jobs. [...]
What’s 4-PLUS-1? The new name for Tegra 3′s Quad-Core Architecture
Unless you’re a hardcore nerd, you probably don’t give a lot of thought to the processors at the heart of your computer. Heck, I’ve been into computers for over 30 years, and I don’t give it much thought! But the fact is, a good-quality processor is absolutely key to your experience. You can have the [...]
T-Mobile to be Premier Launch Partner in the U.S. for the HTC One S
We have a bit more news on HTC’s new HTC One line coming out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It seems T-Mobile will be the premier launch partner in the U.S. for the HTC One S. The HTC One S will be T-Mobile’s next smartphone to take advantage of the company’s speedy 4G (HSPA+42) [...]
HTC Announces Their New HTC One Series
HTC is at Mobile World Congress and just announced their new HTC One series. It brings a new design and enhanced camera and sound to a line of brand new devices. The HTC One devices combine impressive specs and sleek designs with HTC Sense 4 on Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich platform. The camera is one of [...]
The World’s First Ice Cream Sandwich Dual-SIM Smartphone Announced at MWC
UPDATED with Judie’s pictures from MWC ViewSonic not only announced some great new tablets at MWC but they are also announcing a host of new smartphones. Among them is the first Ice Cream Sandwich Dual-SIM Smartphone. Why dual-SIM? Dual-SIM phones are expected to see an 80% growth rate in the next two years and, according [...]
Next Generation 7” and 10” ViewPads from ViewSonic Announced
UPDATED with pictures from MWC ViewSonic just announced new 7″ and 10″ ViewPad tablets during Mobile World Congress. The ViewSonic tablets are “designed to fit into today’s mobile lifestyle. They are the perfect options for consumers to surf the web and interact with friends or for the mobile worker to enhance productivity whilst on the [...]
Mobile World Congress Begins in Barcelona and Judie is There
Judie left the “Create.Work.Inspire. event in Brooklyn and immediately flew to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. The plane landed and, just three hours later she was in her first meeting. It will be back to back meetings and events for the next few days.
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