Tag: MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS

Just as touch screens are becoming commonplace on cell phones, a new prototype was recently unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2010, in Barcelona. It'll make you do a double take -- in more ways than one. According to the Telegraph, NTT DoCoMo has created a gadget that lets users navigate their cell phones by moving their eyes. Yes, you could make a call, play a song, or check a text ...

Android owners have been enjoying the perks of the Google' Goggles application for a few months now, leaving us iPhone users jealous. After reading Google's latest announcement, we're now even more jealous of our Android brethren. According to the Google Translate Blog, the company introduced a Google Goggles prototype at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that instantly translates text ...

As Twitter has evolved from a quirky Web fad into an actually accepted and ingrained mode of communication, folks have been steadily creating ingenious new functions for the service. One of the more interesting, and humorous, directions for Twitter has been the movement toward unexpected and unlikely tweeters, like fetuses and inanimate objects. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ...

You know who's blabbing again? That reclusive set of business people who always seem to be "familiar with the matter," that's who. This time, they've got the Wall Street Journal in a twist over renewed rumors that Dell is "preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month." Next month, is of course the big cellphone coming out party known as Mobile World Congress in Barcelona -- an event ...

At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week, Nokia unveiled a handset made entirely of recycled materials. The green-minded handset is pieced together from old cell phones, tin cans, and recycled plastics. Unfortunately, the phone, called Remade, is currently only a concept and can't place calls. We doubt this particular handset will ever hit the market, but we wouldn't be ...

We couldn't make it out to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona -- a big international cell-phone conference focused mainly on GSM-style world phones -- but our good friends over at Engadget were able to make the trek and are sending back reports from the front line of cellular and mobile computing technologies. All the usual suspects are there, Samsung, Nokia, even Motorola are showing off ...

The much anticipated, and much rumored, double-slider N96 Multimedia Device has finally been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Designed as a video powerhouse, the N96 includes an integrated TV tuner, a stunning 2.8 inch QVGA display, and a clever kickstand for setting the device down for viewing. It also has more memory -- 16-gigabytes of memory for up to 40 hours of stored ...