![Video hands-on with the Garmin-Asus nuvifone A50 [AC @MWC]](https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w250h188crop/public/youtube/ZFQWAEb_mA4.jpg)
Garmin-Asus was showing off the nuvifone A50 at Mobile World Congress, and we took it out for a spin. It's a 3.5-inch (320x480) device running Android 1.6 but is completely skinned. It's being billed as the "No-excuses navigation smartphone," and it certainly is. Nav is first and foremost, and it it was easy to follow in our demo. Despite being a GPS unit on steroids, it has all the...
Stick a fork in us, folks. We're done at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. We still have a little more coverage coming, and likely a big wrap-up podcast, but here's Phil, Kevin and Dieter going over the final two days of the event. Be forewarned: The first 20 minutes or so are dominated by BlackBerry, but it's good stuff. See you guys back in the States. Download it directly...
![Samsung Super AMOLED touchscreens for smartphones [AC @ MWC]](https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w250h188crop/public/youtube/byksSYvz5bo.jpg)
Samsung didn't bring much in the way of Android at Mobile World Congress, but it did bring a new screen technology that hopefully will make it into your pocket in the near future. It's called Super AMOLED (we'll point you to ye olde Wikipedia for the regular ol' AMOLED). And it's one of those things that you kind of have to see in person to believe. Our quick glance here in Barcelona...
![Hands-on with SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 for Android phones [AC @ MWC]](https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w250h188crop/public/youtube/uB9BhMfYb6E.jpg)
Those of you who came to Android from Windows Mobile likely are familiar with SPB Mobile Shell. And the boys and girls from St. Petersburg are back with Version 5.0, which will be released on Android in the coming months. This isn't a ROM-integrated like HTC's Sense UI, and that has advantages. Because it's not as deeply rooted in the Android ROM, SPB can push out an update whenever it...
Had a nice sit-down this morning at Mobile World Congress with Dataviz, maker of Road Sync and Docs to Go. (For the uninitiated, think all the power of Microsoft Office, for a fraction of the price.) The story of the day was document sync, both local and in the cloud.Version 2.0 for Android currently is free for the trial, and temporarily reduced to $9.99 for the premium version. But we...
At Google's Keynote last night, there was supposed to be a ban on photos or video of their discussion about how they love openness and transparency (ahem). We had some live coverage at our @androidcentral twitter account (you do follow us, right?), including the new little tidbit that there are 60,000 Android devices sold every day. Anyhow, CEO Eric Schmidt discussed how Google has a...
If you're the type of person who can't miss a detail and love to see a company's presentation yourself, first of all, we totally understand and second, you're in luck because HTC has posted their entire MWC press event on Youtube for your viewing pleasure. You'll get to see the three new HTC devices (Desire, Legend, HD Mini) get introduced and the usual theatrics that come with it (...
![Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR on the Motorola Droid [AC @ MWC]](https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w250h188crop/public/youtube/wVkwGAdnYTQ.jpg)
Yeah, yeah. another teaser showing Adobe Flash on Android. We get it. We're as tired as seeing them as you are and are ready to see Flash 10.1 roll out. And the folks at Adobe assure us it's coming. They're just not saying when. The good news is that that that we've gotten our hands on it, we're a little less fearful than we might have been earlier. We're not totally on board, and we...
Spent some quality time today with the folks from HP, who gave us some face time with their new Android-based netbook, the Compaq Airlife 100. As you'll hear, it has an advertised 12-hour battery life and basically brings the complete Android experience to an instant-on form factor complete with the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 16GB solid-state drive. It's full Android, so it's...
Here's a quick look at Opera Mobile on Android. And it looks, well, like you'd expect Opera Mobile to on Android. It's nice and fast, thanks to the major compression going on, and it'll make a nice addition to Android's browser arsenal. Problem is, you can't get it. We've mentioned before that Opera Mobile's only available to manufacturers and carriers: Basically it has to be cooked...
Ok, it's official: HTC likes to beat on devices. First we see them stress test the Nexus One, now we watch them take a shiny new, not-even-released-yet, HTC Legend and slam it up against a wall. We flinched, no fooling, keep an eye out at 1:25. The HTC Legend is easily the best looking phone of Mobile World Congress. The thing is carved out of a single piece of aluminium and that adds...
The Motorola Motoroi's been intriguing ever since it first leaked out of the depths of wherever such leaks come from. But in getting your hands (and watching the hands of a lovely Motorola representative) on the device, you really get a sense that despite a few obvious cues taken from the Motorola Droid, the Motoroi really isn't a keyboardless Droid. For one, it lacks the hard lines of...
Here it is, folks. The Motorola Motoroi, aka the XT720, aka the first Android 2.0 device released for the Korean market. At first blush you get the feel that it's a kindler, gentler Droid without a keyboard. But get the XT720 in your hand and you find that they don't have the same feeling in the slightest. No sharp angles, and the bump on the side is hardly noticeable. The XT720 sports...
The Motorola Cliq XT (Android 1.5 and MotoBLUR) won't be released for another month, but we've already gotten our hands on it at Mobile World Congress. Here we go. It's the first incarnation of MotoBLUR to not have a physical keyboard. But that doesn't slow it down any, especially because it is one of the first phones to take advantage of T-Mobile's new deal to pre-install the Swype...
You read that right, folks. If our live coverage of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini and mini pro didn't tip you off, we're on the ground in Barcelona, Spain, at Mobile World Congress. And to officially kick things off, we're bringing you a special podcast with myself, Dieter Bohn from PreCentral.net and CrackBerry's Kevin Michaluk. It was a long haul over here, and it's going to be a...
The enterprising sleuths at Engadget were perusing the specs on that strange Bada phone and managed to track down the Samsung Halo. If you were hoping for an Android device to land at Mobile World Congress that's unabashedly techy, wait no more:3.7" Super-AMOLED Display8 megapixel camera3.5mm headsetAndroid 2.1WiFi B/G/N, GPS, Bluetooth16gb of internal storage, expandable via...