Accomplished smartphone manufacturer HTC are set to produce Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), planning at least one such unit for release this year in a collaboration with platform designer Intel.  According to sources in Taiwan's handset industry, the HTC MID will feature both internet browsing and traditional handset features, adding voice functionality while undercutting current prices (that usually fall into the ... continued »

Fancy console-quality 3D gaming on your cellphone?  ARM today announced the Mali-JSR297 graphics stack software which, it claims, will allow Java programmers to use the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics processing units in some mobile devices.  GPUs like ARM's own Mali200, which is to be found the Ericsson U500 HSPA mobile platform, can now use the same OpenGL API as the PlayStation ... continued »

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has unsurprisingly been the star event of this week, featuring the mixture of new product launches, corporate jostling and PR whimsy that we all know and love. For us here at PHONE Magazine, it's been a week of exclusive video demos, and we hope you've been as excited as we were by the first ... continued »

Although nowhere near as polished as the offerings from Sony Ericsson, Samsung and the rest, a number of Android prototypes and reference designs are on show here at the Mobile World Congress, and I've been shooting exclusive video demos of them for PHONE Magazine. Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and ARM all had displays, and in the three videos after the ... continued »

Very little in the way of detail on this one, but Reuters are reporting that ARM will be demonstrating an Android-based prototype cellphone at the Mobile World Congress on Monday, thanks to information from "a source close to the company".  So far the microprocessor company has only confirmed it will feature existing, commercially-available ARM-powered handsets such as Samsung's BlackJack II ... continued »