Adéu, Barcelona: MWC 2010 draws to a close
For the industry, the press, and phone geeks alike, the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in the lovely Catalonian capital of Barcelona is the biggest event of the year -- and apart from a few unplanned power outages at Engadget's home base, an average nightly rest hovering around three hours, and unseasonably cold weather, 2010's gathering didn't disappoint. Let's take a quick look back at some of the highlights: Windows Phone 7 Series coverage Windows Phone 7 Series: that's the name Live from Microsoft's Windows Phone press event at MWC 2010 Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on and impressions (updated with video) Editorial: Engadget on Windows Phone 7 Series Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know Liveblogs Live from Samsung's 2010 MWC press event Live from Sony Ericsson's MWC 2010 press conference Live from Nokia's (and Intel's) MWC 2010 press event Live from Microsoft's Windows Phone press event at MWC 2010 Live from HTC's MWC 2010 press event Live from Eric Schmidt's keynote at MWC 2010 Hands-ons Aava Mobile's Intel Moorestown prototype hands-on Acer Liquid e, beTouch E110 / E400, and neoTouch P300 / P400 hands-on Alcatel OT-980 with Android hands-on, we feel frugal just looking at it Bug Labs' BUGbase 2.0 prototype hands-on Chumby prototype with Marvell innards spotted at MWC 2010 Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 and A50 hands-on General Mobile's Touch Stone: how can something so wrong be so right?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: congress, e400, engadget, ericsson, htc, intel, microsoft, mobile, moorestown, motorola-quench, mwc, mwc2010, weather, world
Motorola MT710 quick hands-on
We've already had a quick look at the Korean Motorola MOTOROI , and we figured it was only fair if we gave the Motorola MT710 a fair shake, too. The MT710 is running the Android-based Ophone OS on some pretty sweet hardware including an 854 x 480 FWVGA resistive touchscreen display -- to help with Chinese handwriting recognition we'd bet -- replacing HSPA 3G with TD-SCDMA for 3G, and a pretty slick housing accented in reflective and red metals. Of course the MT710 isn't meant for our market, but we're still encouraged to see how many Android sets are cropping up here at the show and indeed from Motorola.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: chinese, engadget, handwriting, korean, motorolamt710, mwc2010, ophone, ophone1.5, pretty-slick, result, td-scdma
Engadget Mobile Podcast 036: MWC 2010 Day 2 – 02.17.2010
Hey, do you know what your Bizarro name is? Because these guys certainly do.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: aggregator, engadget, marketplace, mobile, music, mwc2010, phone, podcast, podcasts, result, wolbe, zune
Acer Liquid e, beTouch E110 / E400, and neoTouch P300 / P400 hands-on
Acer took MWC rather seriously this year with no fewer than five phone intros to its name spanning the range from Android to Windows Mobile 6.5.3 , so we went ahead and put our hands on all of them today. Starting at the bottom of the range, the lowly beTouch E110 is obviously designed to compete head-to-head with the likes of the HTC Tattoo -- in fact, it apes the Tattoo's design pretty closely in some respects. Unlike Acer's higher-end Android phones, the E110 uses a custom skin that seems pretty well-suited for its QVGA resolution, and it's still managing 3.6Mbps HSDPA in your choice of 900 / 2100 and 850 / 1900 flavors for different areas of the world.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: audiences, e400, htc, mwc2010, reasonable-way, result, touch-e110, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5.3
Puma Phone hands-on
Chalk one up for Sagem and Puma who apparently just want a cell to be fun -- and somehow, we're right there with them. The obviously-named Puma Phone launched today, and for a pretty basic handset, it was drawing some reasonably large crowds at the booth.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: active, entry, feature, mwc2010, north, Player, puma phone, sagem, tunes
Hands-on with TAT’s dual-screen phone concept and augmented reality app
What, you thought Home was the only project in the pipeline for these guys?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: blaze, clever, conclusions, frames, keyboard, mwc, mwc2010, normally-expect, realization, recognizr, result, tat, the-astonishing-tribe, Usability, viewfinder
ZTE and OKWAP team with Intivation to deliver next generation solar devices
Let's be honest, we'd scorch the Earth to eke just one more hour of power from our superphones.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: both-the-s316, developingworld, device, entry, feature, Flashlight, gadgets, mobile-world-congress, mwc2010, okwap, result
LG Mini GD880 finally gets a full on announcement at MWC
Hey there, Mini GD880 -- we've seen plenty of you around here lately -- but we were beginning to wonder if you'd ever get totally, completely, 100 percent official. Well, here we are, day two of MWC, and it was definitely worth the wait
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 2010, airsync, desire, entry, europe, Heart, hsdpa, minigd880, money, mwc2010, phone, photos, pretty-smart, Sync, wifi
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
Samsung Wave shows what’s Super about its AMOLED display by going outdoors (video)
Direct sunlight -- is there anything more terrifying for an OLED screen ? Up until now, you had to sacrifice some outdoor performance from your phone's display in order to get the spectacular contrast and viewing angles on offer from OLEDs.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, amoled, bada, environment, more-terrifying, mwc2010, outdoors, pictures, publication, samsung s8500, samsung wave, samsungwave, super amoled, video