Tag: MWC 2012
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HTC’s One X and One S to Land on All Major UK Networks in April
HTC’s heavyweight-hitting new smartphones, the One X and One S, will be available in the UK next month on all 5 major networks. The Carphone Warehouse has all three new phones – with the inclusion of the One V – in its ‘coming soon’ section online, each dated for an April release. The good news…
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MWC 2012: Fujitsu Impresses with Quad-Core Prototype Beast
The big theme of this year’s MWC (and indeed this year in general) is companies who are well-known in the East, starting to focus on worldwide products and really impressing with them. Fujitsu is definitely one of these; while they are known in the West as a general manufacturer, they command a significant portion of…
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MWC 2012: Orange Santa Clara Brings Intel Reference Design to the UK and France
Telecom Orange has recently announced that it will be bringing the first Intel-powered phone to the UK and France in the next three months. The reference phone has been modified into designs by both Lenovo and Motorola, but won’t be seen in the West for some months, so the Santa Clara will be the first…
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MWC 2012: Nokia’s 41-Megapixel PureView 808 Wins Best New Smartphone Award
Nokia’s new PureView 808 Symbian smartphone, with its eye-popping 41-Megapixel camera, has earnt the Finnish manufacturer an award over in Barcelona at MWC. Over at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, it’s Samsung 2 – 2 Nokia in the awards stakes. Samsung picked up awards for Best Smartphone and Best Manufacturer yesterday, and now Nokia has…
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Now Available to Download for Everyone
Microsoft has just finished giving an extensive demonstration of its new Windows 8 operating system at the Mobile World Congress. In doing so, it has also launched the Consumer Preview, which means anyone can now download Windows 8 to try it out. The Redmond, Washington, company demonstrated how its revamped operating system can work smoothly…
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MWC 2012: Samsung Claims Best Smartphone and Best Manufacturer Awards
Despite not unveiling a new flagship smartphone as many had hoped, Korean manufacturer Samsung has cleaned up nicely at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, picking up two awards – Best Smartphone and Best Manufacturer. Initially we thought that Samsung’s excellent Galaxy Nexus would be the phone to pick up the first award, but it was…
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Samsung’s Galaxy Beam Projector Smartphone Gets Priced and Dated
Samsung kicked off 2012’s Mobile World Congress with a big surprise, treating us to a new member of its Galaxy smartphone family. The Galaxy Beam was something of a surprise – a smartphone that featured an inbuilt projector. The intriguing device has now been given a price and a release time by UK retailer Unlocked…
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Windows Phone Tango Update Will Roll Out After April
Microsoft has confirmed that the next update to its Windows Phone operating system will indeed be called ‘Tango’, and it will come to all Windows Phones sometime after April. Joe Belfiore, Head of the Windows Phone team, confirmed the details via an in-depth post on the official Windows Phone Developer Blog. Tango is not a…
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App of the Week: Skype for Windows Phone (Beta)
Microsoft has finally released Skype for its Windows Phone 7 platform, a move many expected to happen sooner after the software giant purchased Skype last year for a whopping $8.5 billion. At long last the app is now available on a variety of Windows Phones, with models from Nokia to Samsung to HTC in the…
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MWC 2012: Huawei Announces Ascend D Quad, Ascend D1 Android Smartphones
Huawei has continually impressed at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The company has already unveiled a brilliant tablet in the MediaPad 10 FHD, and now it has unveiled the Ascend D Quad and Ascend D1 Android smartphones. The ‘D’ in each name stands for Diamond – these phones belong to Huawei’s high-end ‘Diamond Series’ that…
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MWC 2012: Huawei Reveals MediaPad 10 FHD Tablet – A Valid Rival to the iPad 3
You might not have heard of Huawei, but you’d better sit up and listen, as they’ve just unveiled a tablet that could rival Apple’s forthcoming iPad 3. It’s called the MediaPad 10 FHD, the FHD tag standing for ‘Full HD’. Huawei caught the attention of many yesterday at Mobile World Congress by showing off the…
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MWC 2012: ASUS Reveals New Transformer Pad Infinity Series Tablets
Just as we had gotten used to ASUS’ fantastic Transformer Prime series of dockable tablets, the company has gone and announced a complete re-jig. From now on, the ‘Transformer Prime’ will be referred to as the ‘Transformer Pad’. ASUS has also unveiled a top-end range of tablets called the Infinity Series. So just to set…