Emporia Solid and Elegance hands-on
Emporia landed at MWC with a couple sets geared specifically to the elderly, the Emporia Elegance (pictured left) and the aptly named Solid. Both of these freshly launched phones are targeted squarely at your grannie's generation, that's to say they include large easy to read fonts, huge keys, and a pretty slim feature set. The Elegance will ship in both black and white, features a 1.8-inch OLED high contrast display, an extra loud ringer, hearing aid compatibility, and 900 / 1800 GSM
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: contrast, elegance, emporiaelegance, engadget-mobile, extreme-sports, grannie, landed-at-mwc, launched-phones, mwc, mwc 2010, result, Ringer, solid
LG not interested in proprietary smartphone OS, likes Android and Windows Phone 7
LG has told the press at MWC that it will not be developing its own smartphone platform "at least for the next two to three years." We think companies should focus on what they do well, and given our ambivalence toward the S-Class UI, it's probably a good thing that LG will narrow its operation down to churning out delectable slabs of electronics and leaving the software side to the geeks over at Google and Microsoft. The head of the company's handset unit, Skott Ahn, has indicated that the future of LG smartphones will be shared between Android and Windows Phone 7 (sorry, Symbian lovers). It will have taken plenty of restraint to not respond to local nemesis Samsung -- who has just introduced its first Bada handset -- but LG appears to be of the opinion (which we share) that the smartphone OS sector is already overcrowded, and its expectation is that over the next couple of years the market will distill itself down to just three predominant operating systems.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: ahn, entry, expectation, handset, microsoft, mwc 2010, not-interested, phone, slabs, smartphones, windows, windows-phone, windowsphone7, windowsphone7series
General Mobile’s Touch Stone: how can something so wrong be so right?
General Mobile -- maker of the DSTL1 dual-SIM Android phone -- has always walked a fine line between KIRF and originality with its phones, and its latest batch is no different. Normally it's easy to resist a device widely regarded as a knockoff (for most of us, anyhow), but in the case of the newest model here, General Mobile's actually managed to answer a question HTC's failed to so far: where the hell is the HD2 with Android? The so-called "Touch Stone" (deep breaths, Palm) rings true to many of the actual HD2's specs, from the 5 megapixel camera to the 4.3-inch capacitive WVGA display, but this sucker adds an "optional" analog TV tuner (which won't do countries with digital transitions any good) and Android 2.0 atop an ARM9-based PXA935 core.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cosmos, entry, feb, generalmobile, mobile, mwc 2010, originality, palm, phone, result, Sim, touch, Tuner, widely-regarded
SK Telecom’s Android SIM prototype combines CPU, storage and OS into one (video)
This is the future , we tell ya! Not the immediate future, mind you, as it's a humble prototype with no commercial intentions behind it, but it sure looks like the right direction for us to be moving in. SK Telecom has somehow fit a processing chip, memory, a gigabyte of flash storage and Google's Android OS onto the SIM you see above.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: commercial, convergence, customizations, like-the-right, memory, mobileworldcongress, mwc 2010, onto-the-sim, past-the-break, prototype, sk telecom, telecom
Commodore PET caught running Windows Phone 7 Series?
We're not sure what to think of this one, but it would be remiss of us not to pass it along to you.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-news, caught-running, friend-via, htc, microsoft, mwc, mwc 2010, pet, phone, tipster, windows, windows phone 7 series, windowsphone7series
Live from Eric Schmidt’s keynote at MWC 2010
We've just been ushered into the rather gigantic Auditorium 1 of Hall 5 at Mobile World Congress 2010 where we're awaiting none other than Google chief Eric Schmidt to take the stage. What's in store -- Buzz news?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buzz, congress, ericschmidt, mobile, mwc, mwc 2010, schmidt
RIM demos new WebKit-based BlackBerry browser at MWC — it’s fast!
We weren't expecting much out of RIM's presser here at MWC this morning, but the company managed to bust out one surprise -- a demo of the company's new WebKit-based BlackBerry browser . We're assuming this is what came out of that Torch Mobile acquisition , and the early build shown off on-screen looks pretty solid, rendering Amazon.com quickly and scoring a full 100/100 on the Acid3 test
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: amazon, black, BlackBerry, browser, entry, kit-based-black, mobile, mwc 2010, presser, result, rim, surprise, webkit
HTC Legend hands-on
OK, we admit it -- we're complete HTC fanboys here today at MWC. But c'mon, can you really blame us
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: absolutely-huge, chou, desire, from-the-htc, legend, mwc 2010, phone, photos, press, smartphone, windowsphone7
Nokia N900 gets new firmware, new games coming too (video)
If your N900 is in need of a little more excitement, this post is for you.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bit, coming-too, mwc, mwc 2010, mwc2010, nokia, nokia-n900, nokian900, release, result
Toshiba K01 hands-on
Toshiba's K01 is exactly what we would've liked to have seen as a complementary set to the TG01 . Happily, Toshiba's given us a QWERTY option with the new model, added capacitive touch, and swapped out the earlier display for a swanky new AMOLED version. Key feel is a bit rough on the outside keys -- shift, delete, enter -- but this device still isn't final, and with all that real estate, the layout feels just great.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: battery, earlier, excellent-day, microsoft, mwc 2010, mwc2010, phone, real-estate, really-showing, snapdragon, toshiba, toshibak01