Mobile World Congress 2012

As the home for Mobile World Congress until 2018, the Spanish city is aiming to be the planet's premier showcase for mobile technology. more

The World Wide Web Consortium must better match the pace of business, so its CEO says in a Q&A he'll strip delays out of today's process for improving HTML and other standards. more

The 2012 Mobile World Congress has come to a close. After shipping out from Barcelona, Spain, CNET brings you the highs and lows of the world's premier wireless trade show. more

Mobile World Congress showed more than just new NFC-supported phones, it also displayed how you can use the technology. more

Using your smartphone while charging always has been possible, but LG's WCD-800 charging cradle gives you a bit more freedom to do so. more

Japanese mobile provider NTT Docomo offers some of the most interesting handset gear in the world, including a phone "jacket" that can tell you if you've had too much to drink. more

For now, Fujitsu's phones are only available in Japan, but what can you expect if they ever make their way to our shores? Some pretty cool stuff, actually. Take a peek here. more

The Optimus L5 could have been a nice midrange Android smartphone, but no, LG had to go mess things up with its custom user interface. more

Windows 8 seems like it's chiefly setting its sights on the tablet market, and that's something that Google should fear. Here's why. more

Panasonic's Lumix Phone doesn't care about being slim or sleek, but it does care about lenses and sensors. CNET UK goes hands on with the handset to get a better picture of how it stacks up. more

Samsung's flagship model is today's hero phone in the Android realm, mostly because it's first to the Ice Cream Sandwich party. But better be careful using it one-handed. more

The Ascend D Quad and MediaPad 10 are two quad-core devices that Hauwei showed off at MWC. more

An all-conference scavenger hunt and barter economy of whimsical Android badges, a claw game, a twisty slide, and real ice cream sandwiches made Google a top destination all show long. more

High dynamic range photography is a popular way to bypass cameras' weaknesses in capturing bright and dark scenes, and Dolby hopes its technology will help. more

Only after the ink has dried on Microsoft's acquisition of Skype does the VoIP app come to the mobile platform. I'm sure even deep down, Microsoft can appreciate the irony. more

The Chinese vendors made a big splash at Mobile World Congress and can stand shoulder to shoulder with the other big-name vendors. more

Now that Mobile World Congress is wrapping up in Barcelona, Spain, we take a quick look back at the devices that stood out. more

All that time you spend doing stuff on your phone at the downtown mall is a network infrastructure problem that equipment providers like Ericsson want--and need--to solve. more

HTC claims that the imaging chip on its new trio of HTC One phones will allow the camera to take shots at 0.7 second. I didn't time it, but I will say this: it's FAST. more