More video footage for you from the Mobile World Congress now, with a hands-on walkthrough of Sony Ericsson's W980i Walkman clamshell together with exclusive footage from the company's launch presentation.  The W980i is unashamedly all about the music, with 8GB of onboard storage, an FM transmitter to send audio from the handset to your car stereo, the TrackID music identification service ... continued »

The Mobile World Congress might have been and gone, but the content still comes through.  Vincent attended LG's "Why Touch?" presentation, where they detailed the concept behind the KF600 and KF700 handsets; the former with its context-specific touchscreen subpanel, the latter the latest in the company's full-face touchscreen cellphone range.  After the corporate pep-talk, Vincent has some hands-on time with ... continued »

I hope you have capacious pockets: according to Real Networks' CEO Rob Glaser they'll soon be full of all the cellphones the average person needs to satisfy their mobile needs.  Blaming differences in input methods, size and functionality, Glaser spoke at the Mobile World Congress last week to criticise the ongoing search for the "do everything, no compromise" handset; instead, different tasks ... 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 »

We all sort of knew that Windows Mobiles 6.1 powers XPERIA X1, but there wasn’t any proof. Thankfully the Hungarian website Terminal.hu had an opportunity to snap a number of money shots revealing more details. continued »

Although the F700 is a nice phone, its Croix OS certainly isn't as smooth as that of the iPhone.  Samsung know that, of course, and they're pleading a rush to market and asking us to give them another chance with this, their new TouchWiz interface for touchscreen handsets.  As of the F480 and F490, all Samsung handsets will use the ... continued »

Despite being better known for making extremely expensive hand-built cars, Spyker nonetheless booked a stand at the Mobile World Congress and slapped what appears to be an iPhone copy (only with a keypad) in a glass box.  Crave couldn't get much more out of the Spyker rep than a monosyllabic confirmation that the handset was definitely part of their portfolio, so there's ... continued »

It may not be as intuitive or attractive as OS X on the iPhone, it may not be as new and zeitgeist as Android, but someone has still seen fit to laud Windows Mobile: version 6 of the mobile OS this week won the GSM Association's 2008 award for "Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service". "A leading platform for business owing to ... continued »

One of the most disappointing announcements at the Mobile World Congress, to my mind, was Nokia's S60 Touch platform.  Having seen the preview videos from several months ago, suggesting an iPhone-rival handset, I was expecting a strong showing intended to cement S60's position as the most implemented smartphone OS.  What Nokia actually demonstrated was a generic touchscreen tablet device attached ... continued »

On Monday we showed you the video of Texas Instruments' non-touchscreen Android prototype at the Mobile World Congress; today we've got their touchscreen version demonstrated live on video.  Two aspects of this demo stand out for me, firstly the hardware itself - TI have put together what they claim is a sub-$1,000 reference platform targeted predominantly at the open-source community ... continued »