Huawei HiLink and Mobile WiFi Smartpro – Up close

Huawei tend to be behind a lot of the USB 3G dongles that are sold by the big networks. Look closely enough at yours and you may see their logo. If you have one you may be aware of the fairly slow start-up time. It’s something Huawei are …

Huawei X3 – Up close

Built on Google Android 2.3 this is the Huawei X3. It’s just got announced and will probably appear as a re-branded device on a network near to you mid-2011. It has a 3.2″ HVGA capacitive screen, 3.2 megapixel camera and has an over-the-air update system from Huawei themselves. …

Yes, the Orange Tablet is the Huawei Ideos S7

Yesterday we told you of a new Orange tablet. We spoke to the guys at Orange today and alas there’s no plans for this device to hit the UK, however we did pretty much confirm that it is indeed the Huawei Ideos S7 – a device which has …

Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Stand

Verizon have launched a 4G LTE network over in the States offering super fast speeds, new devices and true internet on the move whilst here in the UK we have a good 2-3 year wait before we get to enjoy LTE. Being a bit of a Verizon fan …

Huawei U8300 at MWC 2011

We took a tour around the Huawei stand today and got to handle some of their new devices. One which hasn’t had much coverage is this little puppy – it’s called the U8300 but it’ll probably get rebranded and sold as network-own devices. The U8300 is a cute …

Windows Phone 7 at Mobile World Congress 2011

In the interests of fairness we decided to take a look around the Windows Phone 7 stand today. It sits in hall one and is roughly opposite the HTC stand. Sadly for both companies they’re dangerously close to the infamous CBOSS stand which you’ll see in the video …

The CBOSS girls at Mobile World Congress

OK, we give in. It’s been a hectic few days and we’d walked past this particular stand a number of times and resisted the temptation. Today the girls at CBOSS got the better of us and we just had to take a few snaps. CBOSS do “convergent IT …

HTC win Device Manufacturer of the Year at MWC 2011

HTC have just been awarded the 2011 Device Manufacturer of the year by GSMA. It follows another successful year for the company which has beaten Apple and Sumsung to the title. CEO of HTC, Peter Chou, stated.. “For HTC to be recognized by the industry in this way …

An iPad for just £99? You’d better believe it.

This afternoon a colleague of mine got an email from T-mobile UK offering a reduced rate for existing customers wanting a new iPad. Below is a copy of the email. The small print mentions it’s only available for certain existing customers. So whether or not you can get …

Vodafone Handsets Coming Soon Highlights

So we are now nearly at the end of Mobile World Congress for 2011 and there have been a lot of new devices announced or shown off to press and media around the world. Vodafone have uploaded a few YouTube videos to their account of some of the …

Google at Mobile World Congress – Android is taking over

I wanted to give you guys a feel for how things are here in Hall 8 of Mobile World Congress. I know I’ve mentioned this before but I’m hereby rebranding Hall 8 as the “Google Hall”. Every single partner here has an Android sitting on the desk with …

Skifta – A global remote control

We went to see something called Skifta today. It’s available right now in the Android Market and is “a global remote control for your media”. You can access media on your phone, from the cloud and from media at your home. We spoke to Gary Brotman who told …

Motorola XOOM – Up close

The Motorola XOOM tablet runs the all new version of Android which has been specifically designed for tablets, Android Honeycomb. It measures in at 10.1″ and has a 2 megapixel front and 5 megapixel HD rear facing camera with LED flash. You can play back recorded videos in HD …

Morning all..

Woaha, and I really mean “Woaha!”. We really weren’t expecting that. Apologies for the downtime last night (Wednesday morning). We appear to have had a LOT more traffic than we could have ever expected.. and I mean.. A LOT. This effectively knocked the main server clean over last …

DivX at Mobile World Congress

We ran into the guys at DivX yesterday and they’ve certainly got a lot going on. Basically put, if you see a DivX certified phone (like the Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S or Galaxy Wave) then you’re guaranteed to be able to watch and enjoy high-quality content on your …

ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro – Windows 7 and Android in one

Whilst at the ViewSonic stand we took a look at the dual-booting ViewPad 10pro. Now, first up, we should state that the term “dual boot” isn’t quite right. It’s doesn’t have to boot or reboot – it’ll just switch. A mere double-click of the Android icon within the …

Windows Phone 7 at MWC. It’s here, somewhere.

We attended the big windows Phone 7 launch day last October and got hands-on with the new handsets from LG, Samsung, HTC and Dell. It was only four months ago, so we weren’t really expecting to see any new Windows Phone 7 devices launched here at Mobile World …

ViewSonic Dual-SIM V350 – Up close

Today we sat down for a chat with ViewSonic. They’re tucked away somewhat but we wanted to see the dual-SIM phone and dual-boot tablet. After being hurried upstairs and given free beer we took a look first at the ViewSonic V350. This is the dual-SIM device and, straight …

Orange announce their own tablet

Orange have announced their very own Orange Tablet. It’s a 7″ device and will be arriving in Spain, Romania, Poland and Slovakia. Sadly this device isn’t going to turn up in other countries but, if you are in one of the countries selling it, you get Android 2.1 …

HTC Incredible S – Up close

The HTC Incredible S will arrive in March and packs a 4″ WVGA Super LCD 480×800 display with srurround sound, 8 megapixel camera with auto-focus, flash and HD video recording. Up front there’s another camera for video calls and it’s a 1.3 megapixel shooter. It’s powered by a …