Category: MWC 2011
MWC 2011: Google's chief Eric Schmidt slams Nokia over Microsoft deal, fails to rule out Twitter buyout
Google's outgoing chief executive Eric Schmidt used his keynote speech in Barcelona to have a dig at Nokia after being snubbed by the Finnish mobile giant in favour of a partnership with Microsoft. During the talk, Schmidt revealed that…
MWC 2011: iPhone 4 declared "Phone of the Year" despite Apple's MWC snubs
The GSMA awards have been announced at Mobile World Congress, and showing that the GSMA remain impartial and good sports, they've announced Apple's iPhone 4 as the mobile phone of choice for the year. This is despite the fact that…
MWC 2011: Android Honeycomb to get Movie Studio video editing abilities
Honeycomb tablets will soon be getting a movie editing software suite, Google's Eric Schmidt has revealed at the company's MWC 2011 keynote. Called Movie Studio, the app was shown running on a Xoom tablet, and appears to be tailored to…
MWC 2011: HP TouchPad preview video
We've seen a lot of great tablets at Mobile World Congress this week, but if we were going to put money on one to really rival the iPad this year in the slate stakes, we'd back the HP TouchPad. Only…
MWC 2011: HP Pre 3 preview video
We think webOS-powered smartphones are going to finally live up to the mobile operating system's early promise this year, and proving our point is the very impressive Pre 3. HP have been beavering away at two webOS handsets since buying…
MWC 2011: HP Veer preview video
HP have been pretty quiet since acquiring Palm, but last week they blew the doors wide open with three smoking-hot new devices. Each running webOS, the smallest of the trio is the HP Veer demoed in the video above. With…
MWC 2011: New Sonim XP3300 Force phone has 'world's longest talk time"
Cast your mind back a couple of years and you may remember Sonim's tough-nut Land Rover handset. Although primarily aimed at folks in the construction industry, the supposedly indestructible phone was also pitched towards clumsy types who have a…
MWC 2011: HTC Desire S smartphone hands-on preview video
The mega-popular Desire handset from HTC also gets a revamp this year, as revealed this morning in Barcelona at MWC 2011. The sequel to the award winning handset has been given the Desire S moniker, and it again is…
MWC 2011: HTC Wildfire S hands-on preview video
Love HTC's Sense re-skinning of Android, but need a phone that wont bulge out of your trouser pockets in an inuendo-welcoming sort of way? Take a look at HTC's new Wildfire S handset then, just revealed this morning at…
MWC 2011: HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa Facebook phones video preview
The rumours surrounding a link-up between HTC and Facebook ahve proven true with the release of the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa handsets. Relatively low spec Android models (the QWERTY packing ChaCha has a 600MHz processor and 2.6" touchscreen,…