Archive for February, 2011 - Page 30

We haven’t heard much out of Japanese wireless company DoCoMo lately, but what they’ve been sitting on in advance of the Mobile World Congress show has been something else indeed–they’ve been running some demos around their new 3D systems, and these are going to do things that you may not [...]

Normally you don’t expect to see games in the midst of something like the Mobile World Congress, but the folks out at Glu Mobile had an array of them ready to show, thanks to their involvement with the Xperia Play, otherwise known as the Playstation Phone.

One thing that has been in oddly short supply out at the Mobile World Congress show–and this likely has something to do with the flood of stuff that emerged back at CES just weeks ago–is news about laptops. And Toshiba has stepped in to fill in the gap by showing [...]

A little bit meta, I know, but this may be one of the biggest bits of news to escape the Mobile World Congress show yet, and it’s about the Mobile World Congress itself. Despite the fact that Barcelona has hosted the show for the last five years now (Barcelona has [...]

When you’re willing to go so far as to name your new chip Kal-El (and for the non-comic book types out there, that’s the Kryptonian name of no less than Superman), you had better be prepared to back it up. But considering what Nvidia was bringing to the table with [...]

A few weeks before MWC any smartphone enthusiast that’s pretty much updated with what’s going on in the smartphone business would have told you that the Spanish event was likely to bring us the first MeeGo smartphones from Nokia.

The seemingly never ending series of Motorola Xoom pricing rumors have come to an end and as of this morning, Motorola’s Sanjay Jha has officially stated just what the tablet will cost. And as it turns out that at least some of those rumors were accurate. Thankfully though, they were [...]

The Verizon iPhone was a long awaited and much anticipated device, and as it turns out, the pre-order sales may end up being better as compared to the day to day sales. Or, possibly more accurate, the pre-order sales may have had more excitement as compared to the day to [...]

After the three Iconia Tab tablets, two Android-powered and one running Windows 7, we went on to find the Iconia Smart, a newly launched Android handset and we soon found it at Acer’s stand.

Acer has three new tablets of its own, the Acer Iconia Tab A100/101, the Iconia Tab A500/501 and he Iconia Tab W500/501. We’ve seen them all in person today and, just like with the ViewSonic ViewPad tablets, we can’t say we’re particularly impressed with any of them.