Gamin-Asus had announced their second nüvifone late last week before Mobile World Congress, and we got some time to play with it here at the show. Although there’s been a saddening lack of new Android devices here at the show, Asus has already confirmed that they’ll be doing something w...

Big international trade shows produce a lot of hype, bluster and, when the timing is right, some fairly surprising experiences.  Over the past 10 years that I’ve attended these shows I have seen tremendous progress in device design, throughput capacity, application creativity, the “emergence�...

Despite the new HTC Magic, the Sony Ericsson Idou, and Windows Mobile 6.5—which still is not Windows Mobile 7—the Mobile World Congress was a bag of lame. Some blame the economic crisis.......

I’m not attending Mobile World Congress this week and rather than blog about news from Barcelona which will be admirably covered by my MIR colleagues on the ground there, I thought I’d pick up on a related subject – contactability. One of the interesting points I’ve picked up fro...

En Gizmodo hacen un video/reseña del funcionamiento del teclado en la pantalla táctil del nuevo HTC Magic o HTC G2, que se venderá en exclusiva por Vodafone. De acuerdo a Jesus Diaz el aparato está “cercano a la perfección”, pero el funcionamiento del teclado no hace mucho sentido a...

Dear people from TAT: I love you, and not only because you are Swedish, but because you really do cool stuff. LIke this Foldout Physics UI for cellphones, running on a TI OMAP 3430 chip.......

LG’s booth on the Fira Barcelona show-floor was impressive, as always. As one of the Top 5 mobile phone makers in the world, we’d expect no less from LG. As usually, the Korean phone manufacturer came to Mobile World Congress to play some ball. LG showcased just about every single mobili...

Regular reader Carl Uminski is at Mobile World Congress. He was delighted to see that the Financial Times were represented with their own stand and decided to head over and see what was going on. Not much, it seems: Random Posts July 23, 2007 — Mirror mirror on the wall.. April 30, 2007 —...

Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone Two of Apple's rival mobile platforms announced news this week at the 2009 Mobile World Congress, with Windows Mobile 6.5 on the way, and a new Android-based handset from HTC. Windows Mobile has updated its user interface to more closely resemble the iPhone's. I ca...

Samsung's slogan here in Barcelona is "The Power of Touch." It should have been "The Power to Drive You Freakin' Bonkers" because their touch technology continues to be bad bad bad. BAD. What's......