Cult Of Mac Is Going To Mobile World Congress 2012! Here’s What To Expect...
The year’s biggest phone expo is about to kick off in Barcelona, Spain. The Mobile World Congress always seems to have an unofficial theme. Last year it was non-Apple tablets and bad 3-D. In 2010 it...
View ArticleOn Voicefeed Makes iPhone Voicemail Personal [MWC 2012]
On Voicefeed will make you not hate your voicemails. Photo Charlie Sorrel (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — On Voicefeed is a neat new iPhone app which takes over your voicemail...
View ArticleSupertooth Disco Sequel Goes Stereo [MWC 2012]
SuperTooth's prototype Mini speaker is cute, cute, cute BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — SuperTooth, the company behind the excellent, beat-pumping SuperTooth Disco, are ready to boost their...
View ArticleThe iPad 3 Won’t Be Waterproof, But The iPhone 5 Probably Will Be [MWC 2012]
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Forget a bigger screen or LTE. Ask anybody who has ever dropped their iPhone in a sink, puddle or toilet what they want from the iPhone 5 and waterproofing is...
View ArticleAurasma Lets Furries And Five-Year-Olds Create Their Own Augmented Reality...
Aurasma marketing boss Tamara Roukaerts fights Lion-O. Cheetara won BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — When I first spotted the Aurasma booth, I thought it was yet another annoying app to serve...
View ArticleMovellas Wants To Make Your Teen Into A Best-Selling Author [MWC 2012]
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — One of the things that first inspired me to be a professional writer was sharing my early fiction experiments as a 10 year old on the discussion boards of the...
View ArticleKilled By iPhone, Symbian’s Last Gasp Is Nokia’s Crazy 41 Megapixel...
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — As a company, Nokia has embraced Windows Phone as their long-term smartphone strategy, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some Symbian execs rattling around...
View ArticleSamsung Note 10.1 Tablet, Like The iPad Went To Art School [MWC 2012]
Even a pressure-sensitive stylus didn't help me draw the Cult of Mac logo BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Samsung’s showing at this year’s Mobile World Congress is light compared to the...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy S 4.2 Wi-Fi Still Can’t Beat iPod Touch [MWC 2012]
The 4.2-inch Wi-Fi handset is adequate BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Samsung continues to chip away at the iPod Touch market with a newer, bigger version of its Wi-Fi-only Galaxy S Wi-Fi 4.2....
View ArticleSamsung’s 5-Inch Wi-Fi Tablet Has An Antenna [MWC 2012]
Hey, Samsung. 1995 called and they say they want their phone back BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Samsung seems to be obsessed with adding easy-to-break, easy-to-lose accessories to its...
View ArticleWhy Intel’s New Smartphone Chip Could One Day Give Us Dual-Booting iPads [MWC...
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Although Cupertino currently uses their own custom-baked ARM chips inside the iPhone and iPad, Intel’s gunning for their business. Caught with their pants down...
View ArticleAre All Windows 7 Phones The Same? Pretty Much [MWC 2012]
Microsoft's strict Win 7 specs mean there isn't much to differentiate handsets BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — There’s a curious flipside to Microsoft’s iron-grip on the minimum specs for...
View ArticleYour iPhone Broadcasts All Your Encrypted Secrets, For Anyone To Read [MWC 2012]
Using just a cheap TV antenna, hackers could decrypt all of the secrets on your iPhone. Photo Jens Rost/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Last night I was treated to a...
View ArticleWindows Phone Can’t Beat A Five Year Old iPhone In Microsoft’s Own Challenge...
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Prowling the showfloor for scoops on the second day of Mobile World Congress, we happened to stop by the Windows Phone 7 booth, where we discovered that just...
View ArticleNTT DoCoMo Cellphone Battery Charges In Ten Minutes [MWC 2010]
NTT DoCoMo's battery charges fully in ten minutes BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — As ever, NTT DoCoMo has some weird new tech to show off at the Mobile World Congress. This year, it’s a...
View ArticleSpeck Shows Off Prototype iPad 3 Case [MWC 2012]
This will be one of Speck's first iPad 3 cases BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Speck, the prolific and (very friendly) gadget case maker, had something very special on show at the Mobile World...
View ArticleSennheiser’s New Bluetooth Headphones Will Be Perfect For Your Mac Or The...
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — If you’re looking for cans on the high-end, you can always count on Sennheiser. Their latest headphones, though, are particular nice. Don’t expect just warmed...
View ArticleMatrix-Like Photo Apps Capture Planets, Bullet Time
Planet view turns even the most hideous industrial landscape into a beautiful paradise. With factories BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Scalado, most recently seen removing people from photos...
View ArticleBoku: Control Your Credit Card With Your iPhone [MWC2012]
Boku in hot, hot discount payment action BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — What if you could swipe your credit card and then — moments later — have the transaction details appear on your phone....
View ArticleZTE Tablets Show Why Everyone Is Buying iPads [MWC 2012]
Zzzzz. ZTE's PF100 starts with a dull name and then goes downhill from there BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — One of the big stories at this year’s Mobile World Congress is Android tablets. If...
View ArticleSamsung Really, Really Wants You To Draw On the Galaxy Note [MWC 2012]
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Samsung is serious about its Galaxy Note hardware, and has had a rare fit of intense product focus. The Notes are being pushed as artists’ devices. This much is...
View ArticleFujitsu’s Waterproof 6.7mm Smartphone Is The First Android Phone I’ve Ever...
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Fujitsu’s made the first Android phone that I, as an iPhone lover, found myself drooling over… which makes it a doubly good thing that the phone in question is...
View ArticleAdobe: For Some Things, Photoshop Is Better On The iPad [Interview]
Photoshop Touch is so good you probably don;t need a Mac BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — If you thought that Adobe’s new Photoshop Touch was just a cut down, iPad-sized version of the desktop...
View ArticleThe Killer Feature Android And iOS Have To Steal From Windows 8 [MWC 2012]
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — On the surface of things, Asus’s Eee Pad Transformer Prime is just a wonderfully swell idea. Why have both an ultrabook and tablet when you can have one that is...
View ArticleSnapily: Shoot and Print 3-D Photos With Your iPhone And iPad [MWC 2012]
Snapily makes even the handsome look terrible BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Snapily is an app that lets you snap 3-D photographs with your iPad or iPhone, and then view them with 3-D specs....
View ArticleHands-On With ASUS’s Padfone, A Gadget That Wants To Kill The iPhone, iPad...
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 –When Asus first announced the PadFone at Computex 2011, they did so with a level of gleefully cheesy showmanship that set Apple fans sarcastically hailing...
View ArticleForget Android, It’s Apple Who Really Sets Agenda At Mobile World Congress...
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — During his keynote speech on Tuesday, Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said, seemingly with all seriousness, that someday, “there will be Android in...
View ArticleArtists, Batman, and Real Ice-Cream Sandwiches: Mobile World Congress In...
The historical home of yearly mobile excess: Plaça d'Espanya in Barcelona BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — When we shuffle from meeting to product demo to boozy party it’s easy to forget what a...
View ArticleHow I Blogged The Entire Mobile World Congress From An iPad [MWC 2012]
My iPad blogging setup, including camera connection kit, emergency battery pack and pouch of spare SD cards. Photo Charlie Sorrel (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — This year I...
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