Acer had on display at the MWC, the NeoTouch brothers P400 and P300, which feature the last of the older generation of the Windows Mobile platform – the Windows Mobile 6.5.3. With the announcement of the new Windows Phone 7 series, fingers are crossed that future smartphones from Acer will adopt the new OS. Nonetheless the version of the OS that has been implemented in these devices, brings about some welcome changes compared to its predecessors, like finger friendly touch, multi-touch, an enhanced Internet Mobile Explorer 6 with support for flash, better memory management, to name a few. Both...

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro was one among the 3 mobile phonesXperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro. Very similar to its sister the Sony Ericsson Vivaz unveiled by the phone maker at the MWC 2010. The other 2 being the , the Vivaz Pro adds a slide out QWERTY keyboard and includes a 5MP camera instead of the 8MP one. The 'human curvature' design philosophy has made its way into this mobile handset too. This new smartphone is a Symbian S60 5th edition device. Powering it up on the inside is a 720MHz processor. The...

Motorola announced their new Android phone, the Motorola Quench mobile phone (to be sold as Motorola Cliq XT in the US) at MWC this time. It runs Android 1.5, which lags far behind the Android 2.1 that's being offered on many handsets these days. But not all's bad news. The Quench packs in quite a punch, which sound very impressive. This smartphone has a 3.1" capacitive touch display, with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. Its multi-touch ability enables 2 finger gestures like pinching and zooming. A centrally located trackpad, below the screen offers some nifty...

Alcatel announced their first Android mobile phone, the Alcatel OT-980 at the MWC event. This handset has the Palm Pre kind of looks. A QVGA resistive touchscreen is sported. There's also a slide out QWERTY keyboard. The OT-980 is said to feature all the modern-day-high-end-phone qualities - WiFi, 3G compliance, GPS, memory expansion with microSD cards, music player, a 3.5mm headphone jack. A 600MHz processor along with a 192MB RAM will handle processing in this device. The camera housed within is however just a 2MP one. One important thing to note here is that this Android phone...

The 15th annual Global Mobile Awards at the Mobile World Congress, saw the HTC Hero being named the 'best mobile handset or device'. The Hero was in-fact the first Android phone that sported a polished look, comparable with that of the Apple iPhone. This HTC mobile phone with a 3.2" LCD touchscreen packs a Qualcomm 528MHz processor within. It runs the Android v1.5. The complete networking and connectivity set consisting of WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth and mini-USB port, is offered. There's a 5MP camera, GPS, a digital compass, microSD card support, multimedia player, an audio jack...

Sagem Wireless revealed their new mobile handset for the aged people, the Cosyphone, at the Mobile World Congress. This Sagem mobile phone has a sufficiently large display for easy readability. The keypad has well spaced wide and raised buttons. Simplicity, comfort and ease of use have been given high priority in this mobile phone. One of the most striking feature of this device is its NFC (Near Field Communication) capability. Users can create shortcut cards for some of the most frequently contacted people, maybe family members, the doctor, the supermarket etc. Just a wave over the...

Guess who's the new kid on the mobile phone block? None other than the sportswear brand, Puma! Their first mobile handset, the Puma Phone drew great attention at the Mobile World Congress event. A cute and sporty device, this phone is targeted at the youth consumer crowd. It is home to a number of cool features, that have not been spotted in any other cell phone till now. This gadget has been manufactured by Sagem. It has a 2.8" 240x320 pixel-screen with capacitive touch ability. There is a sporty side and a playful side to it....

Top mobile phone stories of Day 2 at MWC:- HTC had 3 high end mobile phones to show off at the Barcelona fest. They were the HTC Legend, the HTC HD Mini and HTC Desire. While the Legend and the Desire are Android 2.1 phones, the HD Mini is a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone. T-Mobile network had plenty of announcements to make. The mobile network provider will be bringing the first Bada handset, the Samsung Wave to the UK market in April. A second mobile handset called the T-Mobile Pulse Mini, a Huawei device, will also be stepping into UK stores...

The LG Mini GD880 was one of the 2 mobile phones that LG had on display at the event at Barcelona. The other being the Android powered LG GT540. The Mini GD880 is a sleek and attractive looking phone with a 3.2" touchscreen. The major selling point of this device will be its ease of syncing up with the PC. There are plenty of sync options for keeping your PC and phone going hand in hand with each other. The History Sync transfers the latest 100 websites visited on your PC on to the...

The T-Mobile Pulse Mini was yet another Android 2.1 mobile phone to be announced at MWC. There were the HTC Legend, HTC Desire, Acer Liquid e and Acer BeTouch E400. This handset made by Huawei sports a 2.8" touchscreen. Other features include support for WiFi, HSDPA, Bluetooth and USB mass storage. Internally it packs in 300MB of memory. Plus there is support for microSD cards. A 3.2MP camera with flash is housed within as well. A media player and a 3.5mm headphone jack are present too. The T-Mobile Pulse Mini mobile phone is said to...

HTC had 3 mobile handsets to show off at MWC 2010. The first was the HTC Legend. The other two were the HTC HD Mini and the HTC Desire. The HTC HD Mini mobile phone is a smaller version of the HTC HD2, with pretty much similar specs. However, remove the battery cover on the back, and you'll be welcomed by plenty of yellow. This is a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone. The enhanced HTC Sense UI that featured on the Legend, is present in this handset too. The Friend Stream widget is one of the novelties...

This time round at Mobile World Congress, there were not one, but two new mobile platform announcements. One was Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 series and the other was the Nokia Symbian^3 platform. This is the first completely open sourced platform from the Symbian Foundation. This upgraded operating system from Nokia aims at improving overall usage of the smartphones. Plus plenty of multimedia features are added too. The S^3 operating system has brought about many enhancements in the touch screen and home page aspects. The home page supports multiple screens with various widgets. Just a simple finger...

The HTC Legend mobile phone was announced on Tuesday at the Barcelona fiesta. Encased in aluminium, this mobile handset did make heads turn at the event. A successor to the HTC Hero, the Legend does bring in loads of remarkable enhancements. This HTC mobile phone has a 3.2" AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch ability. Therefore one can zoom in and out using 2 fingers. An optical trackpad is featured as well. The Android 2.1 OS has been used in this device. A Qualcomm 600MHz processor handles all operations in the HTC Legend phone. This handheld...

Mobile World Congress 2010 started off with much excitement amongst the crowd present. The biggies of the mobile communication industry were all gathered to impress the world with their new ware and announcements. Here are the top mobile phone stories of Day 1 (15 February 2010). Samsung presented their first Bada mobile phone, the Samsung Wave, at an event, on 14th February 2010. Sony Ericsson had an array of phones that they unveiled at the event. The Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro and the Vivaz Pro were flaunted by the company. Acer had the largest collection of handsets to...

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer announced their next generation mobile phone platform, the Windows Phone 7 series, at the MWC event on 15th February, 2010. This new operating system integrates plenty of novel features which promise to take user experience with mobile phones to a whole new level. The Windows Phone 7 platform will bring the Xbox Live games to the mobile phone console. The Zune software will work to sync up music from the PC. The Start screen will be customisable to create what are known as tiles, which are similar...

Huawei has introduced its new mobile phone, the Huawei U8800, a HSPA+ Android smartphone, at the Mobile World Congress, that's happening in Barcelona presently. HSPA+ is the evolved HSPA, and offers higher speeds for online data access. There are other new mobile handsets coming from Huawei as well. They are the Huawei U8100, the Huwei U8110 and the Huawei U8300. There's also a tablet called the SmartKit S7 that joined phones. The Huawei U8800 mobile phone is a 3.8" touchscreen handset, which runs Android 2.1. Downlink speed of up to 14MBps is promised. There are reports that this phone will be...

Toshiba TG02 mobile phone, the successor of the Toshiba TG01 phone was present at the Mobile World Congress 2010, to woo audience. This new Toshiba mobile phone has few but welcome changes from the predecessor mobile handset. The Toshiba TG02 gets a capacitive touch display, instead of the resistive one of the TG01. Most of the other specs remain the same. The 4.1" touch-display is present in this new smartphone as well. Plus the 1GHz Snapdragon processor is inherited as it is. This one is a Windows Mobile 6.5 OS handset too....

Acer treated the Mobile World Congress 2010 with 4 new Android mobile phones. Among the quad mobile handsets were the Acer BeTouch E400 and the Acer BeTouch E110. The other 2 being the Liquid e and the Ferrari. The Acer BeTouch E400 mobile phone is based on the Android 2.1 OS. The Qualcomm 7227 processor with a clock speed of 600MHz has been employed here. There's WiFi as well as 3G+ connectivity for speedy internet access. This Acer Android phone sports a 3.2-inch HVGA resistive touch-display. There's a 3.2MP camera with...

Acer had an array of Android mobile phones to show off yesterday at the Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, currently. There were a total of 4 mobile handsets that ran the Google's Android platform - the Acer Liquid e, the Acer Ferrari, the Acer BeTouch E400 and the Acer BeTouch E110. The Acer Liquid e mobile phone is a successor to the Acer Liquid. Apart from the Android version upgrade almost all other specifications seem the same. While the first Acer Liquid ran Android v1.6, the Acer Liquid e runs Android...

Sony Ericsson pulled off veils from 2 new mobile handsets, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro, at an event a day prior to the start of the Mobile World Congress 2010, at Barcelona. Both these mobile phones are variants of the high-end Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mobile phone. The Xperia X10 Mini and the Xperia X10 Mini Pro share plenty of common features, except for their form factors and the colours that they will be available in. The X10 Mini is a candybar with a 2.5" QVGA touch...