After teasing its latest generation Atom chips geared for smartphones, Intel has officially launched three new CloverTrail+ mobile chipsets – the Z2580, Z2560 and Z2520. The three chips are clocked at 2.0GHz, 1.6GHz and 1.2GHz respectively and all of them have twin cores. Intel combines these CPUs with PowerVR SGX 544 GPUs which make them more competitive than the Medfield chips it launched last year. That said, these chips retain the 32nm manufacturing process we saw in the original Medfield chip, which puts these new chips at a disadvantage when compared to chips made by Qualcomm and Nvidia both of which leverage a 28nm process.

Mozilla Firefox OS makes its first landing on ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire smartphones, both of which are flaunting the new OS at the MWC. While announcing the launch of the Firefox OS, Mozilla also disclosed its partners including ZTE, Alcatel, Huawei and LG as phone manufacturers, Qualcomm for providing Snapdragon chipsets, and so far 18 operators for bundled services. The ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire initiate the Firefox OS journey in the mobile market, while LG and Huawei will join in a bit later latter. Here we tell you more on, besides the OS, what all do these phones hold for the users.

South Korean mobile maker LG it seems is treating the Mobile World Congress as nothing less than a battle to take over the mobile world and today gave a look into its arsenal. It has announced four series— G, Vu, F and LII, under which it will launch smartphones at the event.

We recently reported about Nokia’s plans to launch phones in the cheaper-end of the market at the Mobile World Congress to counter stiff competition from other mobile companies. At that time it wasn’t clear which phones or at what price range would the Finnish company launch these phones. But now the folks at @eveleaks have uncovered what could be the answer to the above mystery. They have put up a series of images on their Twitter page of the next Nokia Asha boasting of a completely new design language.

Mozilla has launched its much awaited Firefox OS at MWC today. The all new operating system supports HTML5 and Web technologies, and will provide an open platform to the carriers as well as app developers for creating a better ecosystem. It mainly focuses on the lower-end markets and has been developed keeping the feature phones users in mind.

The last time HP launched the TouchPad to compete against the iPad, it couldn’t survive the competition. But today the American company re-entered the tablet market with what seems to be a more sensible approach by announcing its first-ever Android tablet at the Mobile World Congress. Called the Slate 7, the tablet is priced around $169 (Rs 9,126 approximately) and will first hit the US markets sometime in April.

Lenovo has quietly announced a range of ultra-portable Android tablets today at the Mobile World Congress. The tablets launched are the 7-inch A1000 and the A3000 and the 10-inch S6000 tablet.

A day before Mobile World Congress begins; Chinese mobile maker Huawei has grabbed the spotlight by announcing the successor to its P1, the Ascend P2. The flagship model will hit markets around June this year.

We’d recently reported on Samsung allegedly planning to ditch the Exynos chips for the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Now the folks at SamMobile have uncovered the first image of the Galaxy S IV and have also quoted an anonymous source who confirms that Samsung will indeed be using the Qualcomm processor and will also ditch its AMOLED screen for a SoLux display.

One of the worst kept secrets of MWC 2013, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Note 8.0, which for all practical purposes turns out to be a bigger version of the Galaxy Note II. With the Note branding in place, it comes with the proprietary S-Pen and also adds voice calling function, which would turn it into one humungous Android smartphone. While there is no reason why anyone should be using it as a phone but it turns out people indeed use tablets as one.

If there were still any doubts remaining about Samsung launching the Galaxy Note 8.0 at MWC on Monday, you may now place them to rest. Samsung’s booth models, complete with its trademark bright blue outfit, have been caught on video posing for pictures outside the MWC venue that the company would be circulating along with the press release on Monday.

Rumors and image leaks are now coming in thick and fast as we approach the last couple of days before the Mobile World Congress. The folks at SlashGear are the latest to add to this and have come across the first good image of Samsung’s Note 8.0.