There’s a new standard for HD output on mobile devices, that also manages to charge the handsets while in use and it’s all done via the micro-USB connector. This technology took off on Samsung Galaxy S II and it was showcased at MWC 2011, in Barcelona, as proved in the video below. MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) will allow you to bring...
HTC rocked the world during MWC 2011, in spite of their small incidents with the projector and speakers and the delay of the conference. Everything went smooth afterwards and 6 new appealing products were unveiled. We’re talking about the HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S and HTC Wildfire S smartphones, plus the two Facebook Phones HTC ChaCha and...
MWC has been over for days now, but we still have footage to show you, since we’ve filmed a bunch in Barcelona. Among the things left for last (since hands on clips have the priority) is the speech of Google CEO Eric Schmidt. We remind you that he won’t be CEO any more starting April, so let’s hear what the official has to say about...
Since we’ve seen a tree tweet, why not check out a fitness app in Barcelona? We did this a couple of days ago, on the Mobile World Congress floor, where we found a pretty nifty health-related app in action on an Android app. Said app connects to a harness attached to the user and shows on the smartphone important info, like heart and more, that...
Skifta was one of the few things in Barcelona and at MWC that left us with our mouth open in astonishment. This is an Android app that’s shown in action below and we’ll have to mention its most amazing feature straight from the start, using an example, illustrated below. Well, imagine you live in the USA, leave your video/audio player open...
We had some fun times in Barcelona, including a session of tinkering around with Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, a classic plastic toy game that was turned into a digital Android title by Qualcomm. Thanks to their Augmented Reality technology, they allow the Android user to rely on the handset’s camera to catch the two plastic robots and...
It doesn’t take a huge phone for impressive performance, a fact proved by the tiny HP Veer smartphone, shown to use during MWC 2011, in Barcelona. The handset should be coming in Q3 and it measures a mere 15.1mm in thickness and 84mm in length. It also weighs 103 grams, less than one of the skinniest phones at MWC, LG Optimus Black. The device...
Don’t think we forgot HP at MWC! We were also present at their booth, ready to test the HP Pre 3 and Veer models. The first comes with an incredible 1.4GHz CPU (Scorpion) that should make running webOS 2.2 a breeze, as shown in the hands on video below. According to the man at the HP booth, this is the webOS device with the widest keyboard ever. We...
RIM was also present in Barcelona, showcasing the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and its great multitasking abilities. The device is shown in action in the video below, as it manages to run Quake 3, play back a movie and run Adobe Reader at the same time. The slate makes great use of its 1GHz dual core processor, 1GB of RAM and the QNX OS software environment. We’re...
Twitter is so big now, that even trees use it. We’re not delirious from the countless hours of MWC 2011-based lack of sleep, but just telling you what we saw in Barcelona. At the Ericsson booth there was a tree able to provide feedback to the people passing by via tweets. This Twitter Tree can sense changes in the electromagnetic field around...
