ZTE Reveals Grand Memo 5.7-Inch Phablet, ZTE Open Firefox OS Phone

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The cat may be out of the bag for the ZTE Open, the company’s first Firefox OS smartphone, but that’s not the only thing ZTE came to the Mobile World Congress to show off. To get the full scoop on the Open, as well as learn about the company’s other new hardware, our attention turns to the company’s MWC press event this morning. First up, ZTE announced the Grand Memo, its new Android phablet. While earlier reports from the MWC gave the Grand Memo a 5.7-inch 720p screen, just a tad larger than the Note II or ...

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Sony Reveals Launch Details, Pricing for Xperia Tablet Z

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A little over a month ago, Sony announced its new 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200 Xperia Tablet Z. While that filled us in on some of the specs we were curious about for the quad-core Android, we didn’t have much in the way of detail concerning how it would be released. Now, during the MWC, Sony is fleshing things out a little more, giving us some general availability info and talking about the tablet’s price. The Xperia Tablet Z will go ...

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LG Optimus L3 II, L5 II Hands On (Video)

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LG pulled back the curtain on its L series II a little early, revealing the Optimus L3 II, L5 II, and L7 II a couple weeks back. It brought them all along to the Mobile World Congress this week, and we’re going hands-on with the lot of them to show you what to expect from these budget-friendly models. Right now, it’s time to look at the L3 II and the L5 II. These models are quite a bit lower-end than ...

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LG Optimus L7 II Hands On (Video)

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The LG Optimus L7 II is a budget/midrange Android 4.1 device that was shown at MWC. Inside it has a dual-core 1GHz CPU with 768MB of RAM. The display is a modest 4.3″ and WVGA resolution, and the camera on the back takes photos at 8MP and video at 1080p. The design is typical-LG with rounded edges and an elongated home button. Powering everything is a 2460mAh battery, which is a nice capacity for a phone of this type.

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LG Optimus F7 Hands-On (Video)

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LG’s new Optimus F series may be mid-range Androids, but with features like LTE support, they’re a big more robust than the company’s L series. We just showed you the Optimus F5, and now we look at its higher-end cousin, the Optimus F7. The F7 has a 4.7-inch 720p screen, dual-core 1.5GHz SoC, 2GB of RAM, and an eight-megapixel main camera; with specs like those, this would have been a top-tier Android just a year or so back. The smartphone runs Android ...

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Nokia Lumia 520 Hands-On (Video)

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The Lumia 520, announced at MWC, is a Windows Phone 8 device intended for budget-conscious consumers. It’ll be selling for just under $200 in Q1, which makes it the least expensive Lumia you can buy. It’ll be available on T-Mobile as the Lumia 521 starting in the spring/summer. In terms of specs it’s got a 4.0″ WVGA display and a 5MP camera on the rear capable of shooting 720p video. The battery is rather generous for a smaller phone, at 1430mAh. While the Lumia 520 only has 8GB of onboard storage, you can expand the memory with a microSD card. In terms of power, ...

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ASUS Fonepad Tablet Arrives Next Month

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Following ASUS’s announcement of the new Padfone Infinity at its Mobile World Congress event, the company switched gears to the other new mobile device we’ve been expecting from it, the Fonepad tablet. Like the Galaxy Note 8.0, it’s a mid-sized tablet that doubles as a phone itself. The Fonepad will be available in gray and gold, supports microSD storage, and like we heard rumored, runs an Intel Atom SoC. It’s got a seven-inch 1280 x 800 LCD and comes ...

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ASUS Announces 1080p Padfone Infinity

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It’s ASUS’s turn to take the spotlight at the Mobile World Congress, and this morning the company hosts its press event to cap-off the past week of teaser videos. After starting off with news of some more PC-focused services, including a whole lot of cloud-based offerings, the company finally got around to some mobile hardware, announcing the Padfone Infinity. The Padfone Infinity steps up from the Padfone 2′s 4.7-inch 720p screen to a five-inch 1080p component. The handset features an aluminum ...

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Samsung Unpacked Confirmed for March 14: Bring On the Galaxy S IV

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We’ve been talking a lot about Samsung’s Galaxy S IV over the past weeks and months, and so far that’s largely all been the stuff of rumors. Sure, there have been benchmarks, and maybe even a few camera samples, but the lion’s share of the news surrounding the handset has been composed of rumors and speculation. Well, as we start to get into the home stretch now, some of those rumors are finally starting to become fact, and Samsung has now confirmed the latest one to discuss just when the phone could be announced, ...

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LG Optimus G Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy Note II (Video)

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The question on everyone’s mind right now is whether the LG Optimus G Pro is good enough to make customers buy it instead of Samsung’s six-month old Note II. Both South Korean phablets have 5.5 inch displays but the LG Optimus G Pro has a higher resolution, as well as a higher megapixel rating for the camera. We’re looking at the two competitors in the video below and we’re emphasizing on specs, features, as well as build quality and size. Obviously the Optimus G Pro doesn’t have a stylus, like the Note II’s S-Pen, but for those who are not fans of the ...

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LG Optimus G Pro Hands-On (Video)

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We’ve already established that the LG Optimus G Pro is not going to be a Samsung Galaxy Note II killer — and you can either agree or disagree — but it will definitely be a great competitor since some of its specifications outclass the Samsung phablet in its second iteration. The Optimus G Pro is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 CPU clocking at 1.7GHz and has a 5.5-inch Full HD display. These two factors will be crucial when it comes to battery life since it is rated at 3,140mAh, ...

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Nokia Lumia 720 vs. Nokia Lumia 920 (Video)

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After closely inspecting the Lumia 720, the highest-end amongst the Windows Phones announced by Nokia today at MWC, we’re stacking it up against the now already established and respectable Lumia 920. We’re looking at specs, build quality and features as well as software. Of course, the Lumia 920 is a PureView device — the one with the Optical Image Stabilization capability as its main feature — and its internals are better than the ones used in the Lumia 720, however, the latter ...

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Nokia Lumia 720 Hands-On (Video)

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Nokia announced a handful of devices this morning out of which two were Windows Phones, the highest-end amongst them being the Lumia 720. The Finnish phone maker maintained the general design guidelines we’re already familiar with from previous Lumia phones, however, tweaking them further with subtle changes. The Lumia 720 packs a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB internal storage (expandable up to 64 GB), 4.3-inch super-sensitive touch display with ClearBlack technology, 6.7-megapixel ...

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LG Optimus F5 Hands-On (Video)

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“Mid-range” is the middle name of the LG Optimus F5 and it’s been already announced, together with its higher end sibling, the F7, right before MWC’s start. It feels good in the hand despite the fact that the phone is made out of plastic — like every other LG phone the company brought to MWC this year — however, not cheap (unless you consider the Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II cheap with their hyperglazed plastic builds). Just to recap, the Optimus F5 is the lower-end among ...

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LG Shows All Its New Phones Together at MWC

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LG really hadn’t left us with any us with anything to be surprised by at the MWC this year; over the last couple weeks, we’ve heard it model-by-model reveal pretty much everything it was intending to show at the Mobile World Congress in advance. The F series were the last holdouts, but even they’ve gone official. Now LG is rounding everything all up and showing off its full new lineup. The F series includes the Optimus F3 and F5, both mid-rangers, but with some decent specs, especially for the F7. The

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