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The Mobile World Congress Series is supported by Snapdragon by Qualcomm. Inside your smartphone beats the heart of a dragon.
This being Barcelona, it seems fitting that day two of Mobile World Congress kicked off with a little ChaCha and Salsa. Those are the names of HTC’s new phones with Facebook buttons (not to be confused with the so-called Facebook phone from INQ, which can only be viewed by appointment, behind glass and beyond a velvet rope). HTC deluged the show with six products in all, five Android phones and a 7-inch Android tablet, the Flyer.
HTC wasn’t alone. Everyone seems to be joining the Android tablet party. Samsung and LG unveiled theirs yesterday; today it was the turn of HTC, Huwei and ViewSonic. Huwei’s entry was the Ideos Slim S7, which as the name suggests is yet another 7-inch tablet, running the very retro Android 2.2. ViewSonic, which already offers 7-inch and 10-inch tablets, launched a 4.1-inch ViewPad, also running Android 2.2. Which begs the question: How small can a tablet get before it’s simply a large smartphone with connectivity disabled?
Riding high on the waves of Android adulation at the show — there’s even an entire “Android village” stuffed with giant green robot icons, one of which you can slide down — outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage for his keynote address. He promised updates to the Android OS every six months or so, and that from now on, Google would combine the best features of the smartphone OS and the tablet OS. Which could well mean a lot more blurring of the lines between tablet and phone. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson has been blurring the lines between phone and PlayStation, and we took a look at the result.
Series Supported by Snapdragon by Qualcomm
The Mobile World Congress Series is supported by Snapdragon by Qualcomm. Inside your smartphone beats the heart of a dragon. This being Barcelona, it seems fitting that day two of Mobile World Congress kicked off with a little ChaCha and Salsa. Those are the names of HTC’s new phones with Facebook buttons (not to be confused with the so-called Facebook phone from INQ, which can only be viewed by appointment, behind glass and beyond a velvet rope). HTC deluged the show with six products in all, five Android phones and a 7-inch Android tablet, the Flyer.HTC wasn’t alone. Everyone seems to be joining the Android tablet party. Samsung and LG unveiled theirs yesterday; today it was the turn of HTC, Huwei and ViewSonic. Huwei’s entry was the Ideos Slim S7, which as the name suggests is yet another 7-inch tablet, running the very retro Android 2.2. ViewSonic, which already offers 7-inch and 10-inch tablets, launched a 4.1-inch ViewPad, also running Android 2.2. Which begs the question: How small can a tablet get before it’s simply a large smartphone with connectivity disabled?
Riding high on the waves of Android adulation at the show — there’s even an entire “Android village” stuffed with giant green robot icons, one of which you can slide down — outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage for his keynote address. He promised updates to the Android OS every six months or so, and that from now on, Google would combine the best features of the smartphone OS and the tablet OS. Which could well mean a lot more blurring of the lines between tablet and phone. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson has been blurring the lines between phone and PlayStation, and we took a look at the result.
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