LG has unveiled its latest wireless charger, the WCD-800, at MWC in Barcelona. This cradle-shaped charger allows the phone to be positioned vertically so that users can make video calls, view movies or images or even send texts. In order to charge smartphones, users will simply have to place their phones on the 75.8mm wide cradle which is actually double the size of LG’s previous wireless charger, the WCP-700. This new device by LG will be introduced first in Korea followed by North America in the first...

HTC has collaborated with Polycom wherein latter’s RealPresence Mobile enterprise-quality video conferencing app will be available on select HTC smartphones and tablets by the end of Q2 this year. This app is otherwise available for a free download on the iOS (for iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S) & the Android platform and enables you to speak face to face with anyone. As a part of this deal, select HTC devices (specific names haven’t been announced) will be certified Polycom-ready and the app should...

Bharti Airtel has appointed Nokia Siemens Network for building and operating its 4G network in Maharashtra. The announcement was made at MWC in Barcelona today where earlier in the day it had urged the mobile companies to bring down the average price of smartphones to $50. The 4G mobile broadband technology is a part of TD-LTE network that delivers instant internet access and can support video streaming and high-definition video conferencing. Bharti Airtel will deploy its TD-LTE network in the 2.3 GHz frequen...

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director at Bharti Airtel, has urged carriers present at the MWC to float a tender for 100 million smartphones in lieu of bringing the average price of smartphones below $50 (approximately Rs 2,500). Though the handset vendors are making smartphones much more affordable but the average costs are still about $150 depriving large sections of the world’s population, especially in emerging markets. Mittal said that GSMA, which represents over 800 mobile phone opera...

TripAdvisor is now the second most downloaded travel app in the world, after Google Earth. This announcement took place at the MWC where the developers of this app proudly said that the TripAdvisor app was downloaded 25 times per minute in January this year. The app has now registered over 15 million total downloads across multiple mobile platforms and devices in 20 languages.TripAdvisor has also announced its new HTML5 cross-platform tablet app, now available in the Android marketplace. This free app feature...

Asus has announced its Android smartphone called the PadFone which was first teased by the vendor at the Computex last year. The smartphone can be inserted in a 10.1-inch tablet (known as the PadFone Station) which when used with a keyboard dock, operates as a notebook. So in short, its everything you want – a smartphone, a tablet and a notebook! Read on for details… (more…)Google+

Denmark based smartphone vendor Lumigon has announced an Android 4.0 smartphone called the T2 which is also a universal remote controller and can operate your TV, music stereo, gaming console and even your air conditioner. Made of stainless steel and glass, it rocks a 3.8-inch touch display protected by Gorilla glass and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.4GHz processor. It houses an 8.0MP camera at the back, features Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower tech for superior sound quality ...

The term “entry-level” immediately reduces the appeal of smartphones in markets like the U.S. these days, as flagship phones are typically far more exciting and innovative. Still, it’s notable when a manufacturer goes to some length to differentiate an entry-level line of smartphones, and LG has done just that with its new L series. The L3, L5 and L7 are a new family of devices targeted at budget-conscious consumers that still want a solid Android experience. The L3 has a tiny 3.2-inch scree...

You would think that, given the impressive specs of its new CloudMobile smartphone, Acer would want to place this thing front and center at Mobile World Congress. Think again. For some reason, the company decided to hide its new flagship model within the Google booth. Location aside, the handset’s specs are nothing to scoff at. A 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon chip powers this monster, which sports a 4.3-inch 1,280 x 800-pixel HD screen with a truly incredible range viewing angles, and a really well-engine...

These three new devices announced by Samsung at Mobile World Congress are each intended to occupy different spaces in the mobile market. The Galaxy Mini 2 is a diminutive little smartphone with pretty unimpressive specs, but it is aimed at the entry-level crowd where it may fare well. The 3.27-inch small handset sports a single-core 800mhz processor, Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread with TouchWiz, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a positively terrible HVGA display. It feels odd to use the word “terrible” whe...

Huawei is making quite a splash at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The company announced one quad-core handset — the Ascend D quad, which is built on the company’s proprietary in-house processor platform — in addition to a dual-core TI OMAP-based device, the Ascend D1. We got a chance to play with both models and, especially in the case of the D quad, we left quite impressed. These things move fast. Really fast. What’s more, these handsets mark Huawei’s entry into the chip makin...

ViewSonic is doing its best to make splash here at Mobile World Congress with a number of tablet-related announcements. In addition to specific hardware launches, the company has also made some significant inroads with running Windows 7 Pro on its slates, mainly as proof of concept in anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8 launch. We liked a lot of what we saw but the P100, running both Android 2.3 and Windows 7 (theoretically upgradeable to both Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows 8) was the undisputed star of th...