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Gionee ELIFE S5.5 – Hands on with the World’s Thinnest Smartphone
March 2, 2014
Shenzhen-based Smartphone manufacturer Gionee were in attendance at MWC last week, where we treated to a look at the new ELIFE S5.5, a 5 inch Smartphone that takes its name not from the display size, but from its super thin 5.5mm thin design. Watch Sascha get hands on.Gionee ELIFE S5.5 Specifications:• 5 inch Full HD […]
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2MWC 2014: Samsung Galaxy S5 Benchmarks
February 28, 2014
Overall, the reaction to Samsung’s new flagship 5″ Smartphone, the Galaxy S5, has been mixed. Finger print reader and 16MP camera aside, it’s not actually so different to its predecessor the Samsung Galaxy S4, feeling more like an incremental update than a wholly new product design. One area however were we do see a tangible […]
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MWC 2014: Fujitsu Wearable Glove with NFC Ring Demo
February 28, 2014
Fujitsu have this week at Mobile World Congress been showing off some pretty interesting wearable devices that currently being developed for vertical and industrial markets. Referred to as a ‘Glove-Style Wearable Device’, this new device supports touch and gesture-based input in environments not suited to conventional tablet devices. Nicole got a chance to see a […]
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1MWC 2014: Dual E Ink & AMOLED Display YotaPhone – Hands on Demo
February 28, 2014
Moscow based company Yota have been showing of the latest generation of the YotaPhone, a dual screen Smartphone featuring both E Ink and AMOLED displays. The general concept is pretty straight forward, pretty much whatever you are looking at on the AMOLED display, a webpage, e-book, Facebook etc can be viewed on the reverse side […]
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MWC 2014: SmartPen Wearable with Gesture Control
February 27, 2014
Of course wearables are totally hot this year at Mobile World Congress and while Google Glass, Samsung Gear 2 and others are growing in maturity and usability, some technologies are just starting to get off the ground. Walking the show floor at MWC today, Sascha and Nicole came across a really futuristic technology from Japanese […]
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MWC 2014: First Look at NVIDIA Tegra 4i on the Wiko Wax Smartphone
February 27, 2014
We just caught up with the very latest device from French Smartphone manufacturer Wiko Mobile, the Wiki Wax. It’s has a 4.7 inch 720p display and is one of the very first devices powered by Nvidia’s new Tegra 4i platform. The Wiko Wax is 4G ready with an Nvidia integrating the new Icera i500 LTE […]
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MWC 2014: Jolla and Sailfish Mobile OS Walkthrough
February 27, 2014
Nicole visited the Jolla booth or hacking area at Mobile World Congress today where she was treated to some very cool looking accessories, chargers, covers and and cases that are happening at the ‘Jolla Labs’ table. It was also a chance to catch up with Jolla’s mobile OS, Sailfish OS, a Linux-based mobile OS developed […]
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2MWC 2014: Hands On with the Nokia Lumia Icon Smartphone
February 27, 2014
We just got our hands on the Nokia’s new flagship Windows Phone 8 device, the Nokia Lumia Icon, a beautifully crafted 5 inch Smartphone that debuts a wonderful looking 5 inch Full HD display that uses the latest Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and Nokia’s new ClearBlack technology. Let’s check out the raw specifications:Nokia Lumia Icon […]
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2MWC 2014: First Hands On with the Nokia XL Smartphone
February 26, 2014
Here’s our first hands video of the new Nokia XL Smartphone, the larger and more expensive of the three Android-based Smartphones launched by Nokia this week at MWC 2014. As we mentioned in our in depth ‘Nokia X Series Explained’ article yesterday, the Nokia XL is at the intersection of Windows Phone 8 and Android […]
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3MWC 2014: Ubuntu Touch Debuts on bq Aquaris and Meizu MX3 Smartphones
February 26, 2014
At MWC this week we’ve seen a few new mobile operating systems pop up on the radar, most notably the appearance of Tizen, Firefox OS and also Ubuntu Touch, a mobile version of the popular Ubuntu Linux OS from Canonical. We caught up with two Smartphones running an early version of Ubuntu Touch at the […]