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Events, News February 28, 2012

Intel Goes Mobile at MWC in Barcelona

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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Events February 28, 2012

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 [...]

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Events, Quickies February 27, 2012

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 [...]

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Events, News February 27, 2012

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 [...]

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Events, News February 27, 2012

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) [...]

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Events February 27, 2012

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 [...]

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Events February 27, 2012

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. [...]

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