Wow, this really is a surprise! We’ve seen the Arc and the Play, but now Sony Ericsson has just announced the mammoth Xperia Pro Android phone — a slider device with a full QWERTY keyboard at Mobile World Congress 2011.

This Android workhorse sports a 3.7-inch, 854 x 480 display panel which uses the same Bravia graphics engine technology like the rest. Well, this phone is sadly very ‘yesteryear’, as it only runs atop a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, so no dual-core fancy SoC here, though it’s sporting SE’s customized build of Gingerbread (Android 2.3). The phone has an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, 2 megapixel front facing camera, and will be available in silver, red, and black.

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Earlier today at the Mobile World Congress event, Samsung showed off their upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1, a sequel to the popular Galaxy Tab tablet. In what seemed a direct way to compete with the Apple iPad, Samsung abandoned the 7-inch territory and made the new Tab a 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet. Read more…

Nokia and Microsoft have announced on Friday during Nokia’s event in UK, a partnership that will collectively influence the future of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform and Nokia’s flagship smartphones. This will be an important event which marks the end of an era, and the beginning of a new era. Read more…

Though Nokia and Microsoft has announced the partnership, and Nokia is present at the Mobile World Congress 2011, they didn’t really manage to announce any real phones, which is quite a let-down. However, they did managed to do two things, and that is showing a concept phone, and acknowledging the other concept phone shown over at Engadget. Read more…

LG jump started it, and Motorola was tailing very closely. Now Samsung is quick to play the chasing game. Rumors of the Galaxy S’s successor has been flying around for quite some time now, one hell of a badly kept secret as usual, but we never knew of the official specs. Now Samsung has used MWC 2011 to officially introduce its new smartphone to play with LG Optimus 2X. Read more…

3 hours after it launch, Lady Gaga’s latest hit “Born this Way” gets into #1 of iTunes for 22 countries. Quite some record this is.
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Oddly the Palm Pre 2 has only been in the market not too long ago, some market doesn’t even have it yet, and well who would bother about the Pre 2 now that HP has announced the Pre 3. HP calls the Pre 3 a “world phone” because of support for HSPA+ and EVDO Rev. A (CDMA), so you won’t see problem like the iPhone 4 having GSM first and CDMA later. HP is doing what Palm can’t do to webOS, a worldwide exposure, as HP has presence in about 170 countries.

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HP surprisingly announced a baby smartphone in its webOS event in San Francisco. If you like ‘em cute and small and round, this should be the phone for you. However, this 2.6-inch diminutive QWERTY slider is no joke, being powered by an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 single-core SoC, and that’s about nearly the same power as the iPhone 4. The phone is said to replace the Palm Pixi Plus though, so it’s not some serious stout like its bigger brother the Pre 3. Read more…

Remember HP’s webOS event that they talked about after their webOS tablet got leaked on the Internet? Well, it’s already been running (actually, finished), and HP announced a swell of webOS related hardware and some software news too. We’ll be looking at the tablet first, since it’s the first that got leaked and rumored heavily on the net.

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