We strolled over to Sony Ericsson’s booth and took a look at the Media Speaker introduced a while ago. There isn’t much to it: you open the “hatch”, you plug your phone into the exposed 3.5mm headphone jack and it essentially becomes a dock with speakers. I thought the unit’s size was justified considering how [...]

Since I’ve played with the Motorola XOOM, LG Optimus Pad, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, I’ve quickly become an Android Tablet snob. And by that, I mean anything less than Android 3.0 just doesn’t seem worthwhile. Today HTC announced their first Android Tablet, the HTC Flyer, and I wasn’t impressed. HTC has been an Android [...]

It seems that with each new version of Android, HTC adds more to their custom layer, HTC Sense. The same was true for several new Android 2.3 phones HTC announced today which include the Incredible S, Desire S, and the Wildfire S. I figured it was worth taking another look at Sense to see what [...]

It’s no wonder HTC is plastering the Desire name on just about anything that comes close to fitting the bill. The original was wildly successful throughout Europe and the Desire HD and Desire Z further brought honor to the name. But the true successor to the one that started all was announced today, and though [...]

The Sony Ericsson LiveView is already available in several regions, but without a US release I had not seen the nifty little accessory in the flesh…or plastic, rather.  When I stumbled upon it at Sony Ericsson’s booth at MWC I couldn’t pass up the chance to check it out. Good news was learned, too. The [...]

The HTC Wildfire was a low-end Android and a pretty successful device in its own right. The HTC Wildfire S continues the concept, but this should put Android into the hands of even more masses. Imagine a small version of the Nexus One, mashed together with improved HTC Wildfire specs and you’ve got yourself the [...]

Among HTC’s lineup of freshly announced Sense devices is the HTC Incredible S, successor to — you guessed it — the HTC Incredible. The phone keeps the original’s sculpted shape running around the back of the phone and highlighting where the handset’s internal hardware rests, but  a 4-inch display gives it a bigger footprint. It [...]

Here is another item for this HTC-filled news day. The product pages over at the main HTC site have been updated to include plenty of images and specs for the newly launched lineups of handsets. Now you can obsessively compare apples to apples and see how and where the Incredible S, Desire S, and Wildfire [...]

I’ll be honest: I was obsessively pessimistic about the concept of a “Facebook Phone”. Not only does it seems trendy in the most anti-cool way possible, but what’s the point in a hardware button to launch Facebook? It turns out the Facebook buttons does more than just launch Facebook: Whenever the button lights up, you’re [...]

If you were expecting all of HTC’s rumored Facebook plans to culminate in the announcement of THE Facebook Phone, brace yourself for disappointment. Just as we figured, HTC has taken a similar path as INQ with their Cloud Touch and announced a pair of Android 2.3 smartphones aimed at the mid-range market with the social [...]

HTC just wrapped their Mobile World Congress press conference, and among announcements of their first Android tablet and Facebook-buttoned handsets was the unveiling of three new Sense devices: the HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S, and HTC Wildfire S. If you couldn’t tell by the names, they are all updated versions of handsets currently pedaled [...]

HTC’s just announced the HTC Flyer at their press event here in Barcelona. Due to limited space we weren’t able to get in on the unveiling ourselves, but we hear it has a 1.5 GHz processor, is 7 inches large, and runs Android 2.4 – no Honeycomb here, guys. A new tablet version of Sense [...]

Why did this come out in the middle of Mobile World Congress, one of the busiest conferences of the year? How will I get any work done? I digress. Words With Friends from Zynga (the makers of several highly popular Facebook games including Farmville) is now available for Android. It is a Scrabble clone that [...]

ZTE had a pair of tablets on-hand at Mobile World Congress – the V9 and the V9 Plus. The short story: the V9 left a bad taste in my mouth, and moving on to the Plus made it a bit more tolerable. It’s clear ZTE’s still looking to hang around the low-end market for at [...]

The United States might be the land of the free, but we’ve yet to earn freedom for many of the smartphones and Android phones in Asia and Europe that we would otherwise Desire (see what I did there?). It only takes a few specs to quickly put the Toshiba Regza near the top of that [...]

We got a few minutes to tour a couple brand new products from NEC that are destined to hit the shores of Japan for too long. The first Android tablet you see demoed has dual-screens with special multi-tasking features built-in while the second device is essentially an Android netbook/laptop. The latter will be out this [...]

ZTE looked to make a splash at Mobile World Congress as they vowed to wow everyone with a high-end line-up of tablets and smartphones. The ZTE Skate was one of them and it looked really nice on paper. Unfortunately, smartphone users don’t really care much for paper. It’s a 4.3 inch handset, but ZTE decided [...]

I’m not really a Push-To-Talk kind of guy, but I can appreciate the purpose in having a walkie-talkie like feature on your phone. Maybe you’ve got a group of people you want to have loose connection, you’re on a road trip, you’re hiking or skiing, you could be doing pretty much anything. Let’s just say [...]

Just when the Android tablet fire starts burning hot, along comes something like the Huawei Ideos S7 Slim tablet to throw water on the flames. It just wouldn’t be a mobile conference without a sea of low-quality, shoddy Android slates, and the S7 doesn’t disappoint in that area. Alright, alright. Maybe I am being harsh, [...]

We constantly hear about Android being implemented in settings you’d currently define as unlikely: refrigerators, coffee pots, automobiles, and beyond. We haven’t seen this take off, but I’m still optimistic that Android will make lateral movements and we’re already seeing small successes such as Google TV and various hybrid form factors and accessories (although admittedly [...]