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 Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
One of the cooler things we've seen this week at Mobile World Congress was HTC's video of how the HTC One S gets its microarc oxidation (MAO) coating, basically turning aircraft-grade alumin...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 27, 2012
ZTE noted ahead of Mobile World Congress that they would be unveiling a small bevy of devices for folks to enjoy in the coming months. The ZTE Era is one highlight from that lot and brings some well...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
It's been a long, long time since we've seen the words "Galaxy S" without a II folowed closely thereafter. But that's exactly what we have here in the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2012
LG brought a lot of phones to Mobile World Congress this year. So many, it took us a while to get around to seeing them all -- but see them all we did. And we have video that we know you wanna see. ...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 27, 2012
When BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 was we released were a little surprised to find out that it was indeed making use of SwiftKey for it's new auto-correct functionality. The latest announcement fro...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2012
We dropped in to visit the folks at Acer and have a look at the Iconia A700, and it's impressive. The first thing you notice is how thin and light it is (9.9mm and 600grams, respectively), and t...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 27, 2012
The Galaxy Note 10.1 sees Samsung bringing the "S Pen" technology developed for the original Note to a 10.1-inch Android 4.0 tablet. The Note 10.1 isn't the only tablet boasting stylus...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
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Acer's brought its brand-new entry level Liquid Glow smartphone here to Mobile World Congress. Not a whole lot to write home about -- 3.7-inch display and a 5MP...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Normally when we show you new devices, we give you the display first. The business end of the Samsung Galaxy Beam, however, is an a decidedly different location. That's a 15 lumen pico projector...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Yeah, new hardware is great and all, but the Google booth is where it's at at Mobile World Congress. They've got developers, phones, tablets, smoothies and a slide.
Yeah. This is our job.
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by Richard Devine
Feb 27, 2012
More love for the good folks in Spain today from Motorola. News out of MWC confirms that Spain will be receiving the global version of the Motorola RAZR via carrier Yoigo. The best part -- the RAZR ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 27, 2012
Having teased it for over a year, today ASUS publicly unveiled the Padfone in its final form, at its Mobile World Congress press conference in Barcelona. In addition to the much-hyped phone-within-a...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 27, 2012
Being the host nation for MWC, it seems only fair that Spain should start to see some new devices heading their way. On the first (official) day of MWC, Motorola have announced that the Motoluxe and...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
There's been quite a bit of buzz since the announcement of Ubuntu for Android, and there's quite a bit of buzz in Hall 7 here at Mobile World Congress. That's where Canonical is showing ...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 27, 2012
Andy Rubin has just laid some Android numbers out for everyone as only he can. The last time we heard numbers from Google was on Q4 2011 conference call where it was announced that 700,000 Android a...
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Orange announces the first Intel Medfield-powered Android phone for Europe, known as the Santa Clara
by Chris Parsons
Feb 27, 2012
We heard some rumblings in the build up to Mobile World Congress that Orange would be getting set to announce a Intel powered device under their own brand and today, they've gone ahead and done ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Carrier IQ cares. Or, rather, for Carrier IQ, it's all about care. The much-maligned California analytics company has weathered the Great Privacy Scandal of 2011 and today at Mobile World Congre...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
ASUS this morning at Mobile World Congress just dropped a bombshell of a tablet on us with its new Transformer Pad Infinity Series. The Transformer Pad Infinity Series 700 is going to leave you feel...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 27, 2012
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Opera Software software has been working with mobile devices for quite some time now so they're not new to the mobile web by any means. They know the web os c...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Take a Samsung Galaxy S. Strip out the cell radios, toss in some audio enhancements, and repackage it with a cumbersome name. Salt and pepper to taste, stir, and you've got the Samsung ...
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