Google confirmed plans to launch its own wireless service earlier this week during Mobile World Congress. Senior Vice President and Android boss Sundar Pichai said the service would be a relatively small scale undertaking and according to a new report…

Generally one of the go-to places for internet GIFs, Imgur is making a strong push to be much more than that. It recently introduced a new format for animated images, increasing the quality while reducing file sizes drastically, and now…

Phablets were once considered a gimmick or short-lived trend but as you look at the mobile landscape, it becomes clear that such thinking was flawed. In its latest report, mobile analytics and advertising firm Flurry found that large-screen smartphones aren’t…

Apple’s long-rumored large-screen iPad Plus has been delayed. The device, which is expected to compete with Microsoft’s Surface line and boost the company’s languishing tablet sales, won’t enter production until September according to sources familiar with the matter as reported by Bloomberg. …

Samsung has a knack for offering buyers of its latest flagship devices a bundle of quality apps to go along with their purchase and soon-to-be owners of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge are no exception.

Instagram has garnered a large user base with its quick photo based sharing. Like other popular content based social networks, its has also captured the attention of brands and companies who use the Facebook-owned site to promote products and services.…

After Samsung’s generally dominate lineup of smartphones began to show signs of slowing in the sales department, analysts and industry insiders suggested that Apple could retake the crown. While just a year ago Samsung was clocking numbers well ahead of…

BlackBerry is going after road warriors with its latest handset. The BlackBerry Leap, unveiled on Tuesday during Mobile World Congress, promises buyers up to 25 hours of battery life from a single charge.

Update: Pebble Time is now officially the most funded project in Kickstarter history.

The Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona has always been somewhat of a paean to the mobile phone and, for the last several years, to smartphones. This is the trade show where the world has witnessed the flattening and expanding of…

Google sparked headlines last September when the company confirmed that Lollipop would indeed enable Full Disk Encryption (FDE) by default. Once the new mobile OS got into the hands of consumers, however, it was discovered that encryption could slow down…

PayPal has agreed to acquire mobile payments startup Paydiant and as a result, will be bringing NFC technology to its Here card readers in the near future. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Silent Circle, makers of the security-minded Blackphone, has come to Mobile World Congress with a pair of new mobile devices and an update to PrivatOS. The Blackphone 2 consists of a 5.5-inch, 1080p display that’s powered by an...

Panasonic has unveiled an impressive looking security camera that has the potential to upend the current industry go-to, Dropcam. The Nubo, as it’s being called, will be more versatile than most thanks to its use of...

Alcatel is using Mobile World Congress to showcase an affordable and stylish mobile Android solution, a combination that’s surprisingly quite rare in the US smartphone market.

Cyanogen, the company behind the Android-based open source mobile OS, is having quite a productive showing at this year’s Mobile World Congress thanks largely in part to a new collaboration with chip maker Qualcomm.

The Huawei MediaPad X2 is a phablet in the truest sense of the term. Anything with a screen over 5.2 inches or so is generally classified as a tablet but Huawei’s latest monster measures in at a mind-blowing seven inches. A…

Yota started off as a Russian mobile broadband provider and slowly began producing various pieces of hardware including smartphones. What really brought their attention to the rest of the world, however, was in 2013 when they demoed the original YotaPhone…

Virtual reality hardware as we know it today can be classified into one of two categories. The first would be something like the Samsung Gear VR or the VR for G3 from LG which rely on a smartphone to provide the…

Qualcomm has announced a new fingerprint scanner destined for smartphones, called Sense ID, which uses ultrasonic sound waves to map the surface of your finger. Previous methods of fingerprint recognition used high-resolution capacitive sensors, but switching to ultrasonic sensors has…

I can’t keep track of the number of times I’ve heard a new notebook touted as a “MacBook Air killer.” Apple’s incredibly thin notebook hit the scene in 2008 and one of the first to do away with the optical drive and…

Microsoft is keeping the launch of a new flagship Windows Phone until after Windows 10 is released, but that hasn't stopped the company from releasing two new mid-range handsets: the Lumia 640 and the Lumia 640 XL.

While it looks like Sony won't be announcing another flagship smartphone at MWC this year, the company does have a few new products up its sleeve to show off. One of these new products is the Xperia Z4 Tablet, a…

ZTE’s new flagship smartphone is taking a different approach to biometric authentication through the use of retina scanning technology from EyeVerify.