This year’s Mobile World Congress is starting to look like an oldies tour. It’s a time-honored tradition in pop music for acts long past their prime – some with only a few of their original members – to play a few of their greatest hits at state fairs and other cheery venues. As one star…
DetailsBARCELONA — Four years ago, Huawei was giving lessons at its trade show booth here at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on how to pronounce the company’s name. Now, Huawei is the third largest smartphone maker in the world, behind Apple and Samsung. At a preview event at this year’s MWC on Sunday, Huawei launched the…
DetailsEnterprises and cloud companies will start trying their hands at cellular this year, Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri predicts. “Enhanced reality” and events such as concerts may be where cloud giants first get into mobile services, Suri said at a Nokia event in Barcelona on the eve of Mobile World Congress. “The first webscale…
DetailsClassic phone brands from yesteryear are coming alive in Barcelona. Nokia, Blackberry and Moto were among the unlikely headline makers ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show, which starts on Monday. Moto is owned by Lenovo, and the unit is still called Motorola Mobility. The new smartphones mixed up retro ideas with new features.…
DetailsOver the past decade there have been several attempts to cram video projectors into smartphones. All ultimately failed, but a Silicon Valley startup reckons it has the recipe right and is hoping for a warm response from consumers when its phone debuts later this year. The Akyumen Hawk is a 5.5-inch Android handset that packs…
DetailsSoon, your Samsung phone may be able to recognize your iris and log you into your Windows PC. Iris-scanning via phone is not yet a feature available for Samsung’s latest Galaxy Book 2-in-1s, which were announced at Mobile World Congress. But the company wants to quickly bridge the gap between its Galaxy smartphones, which run…
DetailsHuawei Technologies calls the P10 a smartphone, but its CEO doesn’t have much to say about its communication capabilities. Richard Yu, CEO of the company’s consumer business group, might instead have been talking about a new camera when he boasted of the device’s Leica-style portraiture and, in fact, like its predecessor it was “co-engineered” with…
DetailsThe mobile industry is so anxious for 5G that it’s now planning something that’s almost 5G, but will be ready a year earlier. On Sunday, many of the world’s biggest equipment vendors and mobile operators joined hands to accelerate the 5G NR (New Radio) specification that will define many elements of 5G. The new technology…
DetailsBARCELONA — BlackBerry phones with their physical keyboards were around years before the iPhone emerged in 2007. Yet, BlackBerry devices today command less than 1% of the world’s smartphone market. Under a licensing deal with BlackBerry of Canada announced last year, TCL Communication of China on Saturday announced another physical keyboard smartphone model called the…
DetailsThe new BlackBerry KEYone smartphone, unveiled Saturday, is the first smartphone to carry the brand that doesn’t come from BlackBerry. It will go on sale globally in April, said Nicolas Zibell, CEO of TCL Communication, the phone’s manufacturer and licensee of the brand, at a launch event in Barcelona on the eve of Mobile World…
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