Welcome to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. This is the annual event in which we'll see some of the newest phones from the world's top manufacturers, as well as app developers. The event is in its first year at the new Fira Gran Via. (So that magnificent view you see above will shift to something else soon enough.)
This year most of the action's happening on Sunday, Feb. 24 and Monday, Feb 25, so those are the days not to miss.
A quick reminder that for those of you in the United States, Barcelona is between 6 and 9 hours ahead, depending on your time zone. Your best bet? Wake up early and keep your eyes glued to this page. (Sponsored by copious amounts of tapas, cervezas and smartphones.)
In addition to all things Android, we'll be lending a hand for our sister sites, CrackBerry.com, WPCentral, iMore and webOSNation, so be sure to check them as well. Events kick off on Sunday, Feb. 24, and run all week. Be sure to bookmark this page for the latest Android news.
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 19, 2012
LG has made the Optimus Vu official, announcing the 5-inch phone on their Korean Newsroom site early this AM. Running Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and packing a 5.0-inch display with a 4:3 aspec...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
You didn't really think Google would have just any old countdown page for Mobile World Congress, did you? And instead of saying Google's counting down to MWC, it looks more like el G...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
This is a little bit of inside baseball for most people, but our trip to Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona could get a little interesting. The main public transportation union there is th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
Opera says it's going to bring new verisons of its mobile browsers -- Opera Mini and Opera Mobile -- to Mobile World Congress in a little more than a week. In an e-mail to press today, Opera say...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
For all you logo nerds out there (and we know you're out there), be advised that LG has unveiled new logos for its Optimus line of Android devices. We could go on all day about the subtelty of t...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2012
The past seven days has seen a flurry of information on HTC's upcoming flagship device, expected to be unveiled in just over a week at Mobile World Congress. It's already been reported that ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2012
Yesterday we learned that HTC's flagship Endeavor and mid-range Ville are likely to be marketed as the HTC One X and One S respectively. Today brings the news that they may be joined by one m...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2012
It appears the final name for the HTC Endeavor (aka HTC Edge, aka HTC Supreme) may be HTC One X. Or HTC One X, if you prefer. PocketNow reports that the device will be marketed as HTC One X, wi...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2012
Could Samsung be planning to launch a full-sized tablet cousin to the Galaxy Note? Listings on Samsung's own blog, as well as a casting website, contain references to the "Galaxy Note 10.1&...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2012
HTC may be building its own streaming music service, according to reports. Tech blog GigaOM says its "sources familiar with the company's plans" indicate that HTC is working with ...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 15, 2012
Frankly, there are few more annoyances when taking photographs than unwanted people getting in the way of that perfect shot. (Unless that shot is of scantilly clad people on a beach in Bora Bora. Bu...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 13, 2012
With Mobile World Congress less than two weeks away, we're starting to see images of even more unannounced devices leaking out online. The latest to appear is LG's successor to the Optimus 3...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 11, 2012
HTC may be about to make smartphone history with the world's first quad-core handset, if the latest reports from veteran phone blog MoDaCo are to be believed.
According to MoDa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 10, 2012
The LG Optimus Vu has appeared in a picture next to the Samsung Galaxy Note, giving us all a great side by side look at the next phablet to hit the pipeline. As we can see from the picture, th...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 10, 2012
Back during CES 2012 Acer showed off something called Acercloud, a new service from them much like Apple's iCloud services in the fact it will keep documents and media libraries in the cloud wit...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
That NVIDIA is bringing quad-core smartphones to Mobile World Congress should surprise exactly no one. We saw the first quad-core tablet prototype a year ago, and in August NVIDIA told us we'd s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
Samsung has told PC Mag that it's not having a major press conference at Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona, Spain. Bummer, cause they're usually pretty good. It did, howeve...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
The first half of 2011 was all about 3D displays for Korean manufacturer LG, with the likes of the Optimus 3D and the Optimus Pad. Looks like LG has something new cooked up for 2012. The LG Optimus ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2012
While the message out of HTC following yesterday's Q4 financial results focused on “short-term difficulties” and “product transitioning”, the company offered more detaile...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 06, 2012
Last Monday we got out first look at the HTC Ville, an upcoming handset that we're expecting to see unveiled at Mobile World Congress in a few weeks. Today four new photos of the phone have appe...
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