MWC
Fujitsu’s gesture keyboard
Forget physical keyboards BlackBerry! Forget even on screen keyboards! Fujistu devised a way of monitoring your fingers tapping on your table. Pretend that you’re typing on a keyboard and Fujitsu’s new technology will translate your typing into a text. At last week’s MWC Fujistu had a guy typing away on a table like a [...]
Leap Motion Control
Leap Motion Controller allowing you to control your PC via movements of your hands will be available on May 13th. Best Buy will pick it up a week later on May 19th. 3D gesture controls can easily be added to your computer for $79 so long as your computer runs Windows 7 (or newer) [...]
The Razer Edge, world’s first gaming tablet PC
With Intel Ivy Bridge chip and discrete graphics, Razer Edge hopes to carve its way into the gaming hearts and minds. We first saw Razer Edge at CES in Las Vegas and today March 1st it’s being made available for preorder by razerzone. Razer Edge will start shipping on 1st of May 2013. The [...]
Nokia Lumia 720
Nokia Lumia 720 features decent specs to appeal to young audience. 6.7MP low light camera, 7GB of SkyDrive storage, 4.3-inch LCD display, wireless charging and all for about 249 Euros. With recent change of Nokia’s strategy to offer a variety of cheaper smartphones targeting younger not so affluent audience including the cheapest windows phone [...]
Asus FonePad – One Big Ass phone!
7-inch Jelly Bean phablet features 1.2GHz Intel processor coupled with PowerVR SGX540 graphics and 1GB of RAM. This tablet makes phone calls! FonePad is not to be mistaken for Padfone, although both are tablets made by Asus (…running out of names, I think). Asus Padfone is essentially a phone, which could be used as [...]
NEC dual screen smartphone Medias W N-05E
With two 4.3-inch qHD displays, Medias smartphone acts as 5.6-inch tablet when opened. This dual-screen android handset can also be folded to work like a smartphone with one 4.3-inch touch-screen. There is another entertainment mode if you will, turn on the second screen when watching a movie and both screens play the same content. Much [...]
1080p smartphone craze in China
While 720p display and video has been great, it is slowly but surely becoming obsolete. Well, at least dated. 1080p is the new heat wave flooding Asia. HTC One, or LG Optimus Pro G are the new top-tier phones to look out for. Companies like Lenovo, Huawei, and ZTE are all making 1080p phones. There [...]
A Touch-less Touch-screen by STMicroelectronics
Ultrasensitive “FingerTip” touch-screen by ST gets controlled by hovering over the screen. No need to actually touch this display. Monitoring electrical field above the screen by capacitive controllers, this display is controlled by just moving your finger above the screen much like with Samsung’s S Pen. Actually, the technology uses S-Touch capacitive sensing method [...]
Windows Phone on a rise and Nokia’s new strategy
Nokia’s new strategy may be to wow first time smartphone buyers and to win over android users with inexpensive windows phones. Nokia had shown off 5 new Lumia phones on MWC in Barcelona. Nokia Lumia 520 is the cheapest windows phone and for 139 euros it is bound to be a success. It has [...]
Samsung HomeSync Set-Top Box
HomeSync is a media hub that streams TV shows, movies, games. Powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core processor, and 1GB of RAM, Samsung HomeSync Set-Top Box is a prefect android alternative to Apple TV. Samsung HomeSync has HDMI connection as well as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to connect to smart TVs and soon also to android [...]
LG Optimus G Pro at MWC
LG shows off new 5.5-inch LG Optimus G Pro smartphone at MWC. Dimensions are 150.2 x 76.1 x 9.4 mm (5.91 x 3.00 x 0.37 inch). Notice that width is only 3 inches. This makes it very comfortable to hold. G Pro weighs 160 g (5.64 ounce). Optimus G Pro phablet features 5.5-inch 1080p [...]
Huawei Ascend P2 at MWC
Claming the world’s fastest LTE smartphone, Huawei teases with 150 Mbps LTE speed on their new ultrafast Ascend P2 smartphone. P2 feature 4.7-inch HD display with In-cell technology and promising 30 percent power saving with their 2420mAh battery. The new LTE Cat 4 device sports a quad-core 1.5GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and [...]
Sony Yey, Samsung Nay to Firefox OS
While Huawei, ZTE, LG, Alcatel, and now Sony jumped on the new FireFox mobile train, Samsung decided to wave this train goodbye. At least for now. Samsung’s high level exec disclosed to cnet at the MWC about future plans not to include new Mozilla’s Firefox mobile OS on their devices. Their focus has to [...]
Nokia to offer cheap windows phones
Showcasing new budget Lumia 520 windows phone, Nokia promises to deliver a full line of cheap smartphones. Hans Henrik Lund speaking at the MWC this morning said, “I believe 139 [Euros] is not the lowest price point we can get to. We can go lower”. Nokia Lumia 520 is the cheapest windows phone on the [...]
First smartphone with Firefox OS by Alcatel
Alcatel announced a very first smartphone featuring Firefox OS called One Touch Fire. Featuring Mozilla’s open-source Firefox OS, this Touch Fire 3.5-inch smartphone may just ignite the fire under Blackberry and Windows Phone. There is never enough of competition and with open source HTML5 apps suitable for all form factors (web, tablet and smartphone), [...]
HP Slate 7 android budget tablet at MWC
HP brought in Slate 7 android budget tablet to MWC in Barcelona. Learning from failed TouchPad tablet, Hewlett Packard brings in 7-inch Slate 7 android Jelly Bean tablet to compete with Nexus 7 with similar specs and $169 price tag. HP also offers HP Care Pack for additional $29 for two years. Slate 7 [...]
Mobile World Congress 2013 kicks off
MWC hasn’t opened it’s doors yet, but Samsung has unveiled it’s 8-inch Note. Huawei didn’t wait for its scheduled press conference to announce its Ascend P2. Many exciting gadgets will be introduced by about 1,500 exhibitors and over 300 keynote presentations. As expected Samsung keeps its guns under cover. Galaxy S IV and S IV [...]
Samsung Galaxy S IV launch up for March 14th
“Tightly-guarded secret” is out. Galaxy S IV launch is scheduled for March 14th. Tweet from Mobile review’s Eldar Murtazin has been confirmed by Verge and SamMobile. Galaxy S III brought in eye-tracking and other leaps. Sources claim that S IV leap will be much bigger than we saw in S III, or S II. Samsung [...]
