03/02/2013, We gave the LG Optimus G Pro a Best of MWC award, but for a number of you who are waiting for a possible availability in your local market, we wanted to show what’s inside the box, namely: the phone itself, some documentation, a nice pair of earbuds, two 3140 mAh batteries, a USB cable and a battery charger/dock. Note that this is a Korean handset (with a typical DMB […]

02/28/2013, Mobile World Congress is over and we have to say that it was our best MWC yet. The new venue is awesome and the level of organization is well above what we experienced in previous years. It’s not that last year’s Mobil World Congress was poor, but the space was really too tight, and the infrastructure was not able to sustain how big the show had become. Now, we worry […]

02/27/2013, [MWC 2013] After nearly one month of leaks and rumors, Samsung made the Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet official at Mobile World Congress and I had the opportunity to briefly try a global pre-production unit at the show. Basically it looks like a large Galaxy Note 2 and the key features are pretty similar with a few enhancements here and there. At the briefing, Samsung confirmed that it sports the same […]

02/27/2013, [MWC 2013] In Barcelona, ASUS has landed a big announcement (and product) with the new Padfone smartphone/tablet combo. It’s not that we did not expect this new product, since ASUS launched the whole concept here at a previous Mobile World Congress, but we did not expect this level of craftsmanship which is absolutely stunning: ASUS has simply outdone itself with this ultra high-end design, and a unique concept. The Padfone […]

02/26/2013, [MWC 2013] The ZTE Grand Memo was demonstrated at Mobile World Congress, and the quickest description that you may commonly get is that the Grand Memo is a “ZTE Galaxy Note 2″, which looks extremely competitive on paper: it is equipped with a Qualcomm 800 processor (SoC), runs a recent Android Jelly Bean, has a 13 Megapixel camera in the back, 16GB of storage, a 5.7″ 1280×720 LCD display and […]

02/25/2013, ad:tech is the leading digital marketing event for marketing and technology professionals from all over the world – a marketplace for buying and selling, a community for networking, a forum for exchanging ideas and an opportunity for contributing to industry trends and initiatives. ad:tech brings industry thought-leaders together to share best practices and to discuss what’s next in digital marketing. It is the meeting place for the world’s leading digital […]

02/25/2013, [MWC 2013] So, we have seen the LG Optimus G Pro announced officially for South Korea just a few days after Valentine’s Day, and received word that the Optimus G Pro will be making its way to the US sometime in the second quarter of the year.This morning at the MWC LG press conference, the  LG Optimus G Pro was shown for the first time in Europe and there, I had the opportunity to […]

02/25/2013, We had the opportunity to spend some time with the ASUS FonePad 7-inch tablet phone, and here are our first impressions: The build quality feels solid, and the metallic body doesn’t weigh much. It didn’t feel ultra-light like an iPad mini, but it did feel better than holding a Google Nexus 7, which is the Android reference in the 7-inch space. I did not have both units on me to […]

02/21/2013, Qualcomm has announced RF360, a solution that solves one of the biggest hurdles for LTE handset makers and customers: the need to build multiple versions of the same handset to address one of the many (40+) LTE bands worldwide. Interestingly, Qualcomm did a good job of keeping this a secret, since the company hinted before that a solution to it may take a long time to appear. For instance, the […]

02/21/2013, 3 stages – 4 days – 5 topics – and 3,000 participants Don´t miss the world-class speakers on hot topics like – Cloud, Digital Lifestyle, Mobile, Smart and Social from 5 – 8 March 2013in Hannover, Germany. CeBIT Global Conferences is happy to welcome amongst others K. Turner, COO Microsoft; G. Kovacs, CEO Mozilla; H. Akhava, CEO Siemens Enterprise Communications; J. Gebbia, Co-Founder & CPO Airbnb; O. Tscheltzoff, Co-Founder & CEO […]

02/19/2013, This is a preview of the newly released HTC One smartphone which was launched on Feb 19 2013 in New York. We describe the main functionality of the phone, along with how it feels. There is also an HD video to show you how fast it is.

02/18/2013, The Samsung Series 9 2012 (aka NP900) is presented by Samsung as a laptop line that “pushes the envelope”, and the company has certainly up the ante by introducing a new design that is 20% thinner and more robust than the original Series 9 laptop (the 900X, which I owned and use one for about 12 months). The changes are quite obvious from the outside: this year’s model has directly accessible […]

02/14/2013, This could be a life changing and historic moment for a number of blind patients in the world: the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of an Artificial Retina that could help a specific group of vision-impaired patients to recover a partial vision. The principle of the Artificial Retina works like this: the retina is basically the eye’s “light sensors”, and when it is damaged, the light information […]

02/14/2013, Game site Destructoid has stumbled upon a photo of what looks like a never-seen before PlayStation controller. Obviously, the first question that comes to mind is : is that the PlayStation 4 controller? First of all, let’s take a look: the biggest change is in the middle, and there seems to be a glossy surface that could be a touch display or a display of some sort. Secondly the little […]