Posts Tagged ‘Ces’

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Looking to pick up a Windows Phone handset on Big Blue? You might want to sit tight for a few days. AT&T has just confirmed to us that the HTC Titan II will be hitting the carrier’s U.S. stores on April 8th, the same day that the Lumia 900 is set to ship. HTC’s flavor [...]

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Those of you stateside Windows Phone hopefuls just dying to get on the Lumia bandwagon will have a new handset to jump on beginning early next month. AT&T has confirmed to CNET that the Lumia 900 will be hitting U.S. retailers on April 8th, for $99.99 on a two-year contract — an aggressive price for [...]

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Not one, not two, but three Nokia interviews at Mobile Word Congress? Yes, we were lucky to catch up with CEO Stephen Elop — whom we last saw at CES — and chat about the Lumia 610, the white Lumia 900, the 808 PureView imaging flagship, and a hint at what kind of cameras we [...]

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Back at CES, we first got wind of Vimeo’s impending plans to welcome the iPad to its iOS party. Today at MWC, the outfit has announced that the new version of its app for iDevices is now available — and it’ll play nice with your Apple slate. If you’re in need of a refresher, the [...]

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Today at Mobile World Congress we spent a few minutes talking with Stefan Pannenbecker, VP of Industrial Design at Nokia about Espoo’s past, present and future handsets — including the just announced 808 PureView, Lumia 610 and Asha 302, as well as the Lumia 900 we played with at CES. He shared his insights on [...]

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Intel’s Medfield-based Android smartphones have been buzzed about for sometime now, but until this past CES, we hadn’t actually seen one of these unicorns en vivo. No longer, as the chip manufacturer outed a trio of those very handsets today at its MWC event. Of particular note is the Xolo by Lava, a 4.03-inch, single-core [...]

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Samsung’s Exhilarate was first announced back at CES as AT&T’s first sub-$50 LTE phone. It also apparently meets a variety of sustainability and environmental standards, but the FCC wasn’t concerned about if it was made of bamboo when it shredded the handset for the public’s good. Our boys in blue lab coats were more preoccupied [...]

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Those of you that have been waiting to get your grubby paws on Sony’s Xperia S are in luck, as Sony just confirmed in its MWC keynote that it’s now gone on sale. Those with stellar memory will recall that’s more concrete than its former Q1 suggestion. To recap those taking the plunge will be [...]

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Sony certainly didn’t pull out the big guns today at its Mobile World Congress 2012 keynote — those showstoppers were for CES. Instead, the electronics giant decided to trot out two new, mid-to-low end additions to its NXT line of handsets, a portfolio that previously claimed the ion and S as its sole occupants. Focused [...]

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That’s smartphones, guys. Not superphones, and certainly not phablets (blech). After showing off its slate-friendly ClearPad 7300 multitouch display at CES, Synaptics is back with a smaller 2200 series controller designed for phones. Specifically, modest little handsets with screens measuring four inches or less. And, it’ll be among the company’s first capacitive panels to make [...]