5.1 channels on the go

LG and Dolby have been collaborating since 2008

LG and Dolby have given the first public demonstration of multichannel surround sound from a phone at Mobile World Congress, where an Android-based LG smartphone was shown delivering 5.1 channels of aural excellence.

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And big brother isn’t even released yet

The Sony Ericsson X10 mini and mini pro

Not content with having a potentially great Android handset on the horizon, Sony Ericsson has refreshed it already with the Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro.

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Bada-based TouchWiz 3.0 handset well and truly fondled

Samsung’s Wave might not be that much of a looker, but the interface and screen are terrific

Fight. That’s what we had to do to get these pictures.

The touch-and-try area at the Samsung Wave launch rather resembled a rugby scrum rather than a tech launch with full 360-degree projection, disco dancers and noodles.

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Guess what – it’s another top end Android phone from HTC

HTC planning another top end Android phone?

There’s another leak about a new HTC Android phone – but this one will have the world’s fastest mobile CPU on board.

Rumoured to be one of the first devices to run the new Qualcomm 1.5GHz Snapdragon chip, the new phone has been ’seen’ in a new build code over on MobileCrunch.

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But will it make it to Apple App store?

Opera Mini running on an iPhone

Opera Mini will be shown running on an iPhone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, although the company has yet to get the application through Apple’s rigorous vetting process.

Apple has been anything but accommodating when it comes to allowing rival browsers onto the iPhone, but Opera’s open statement of intent over the platform does, at the very least, sound confident of success.

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Just over 12 months ago a small team of ten met to put the wheels in motion for one of the most significant changes the telecoms industry has seen for many years. The team, called Cornerstone, was made up of both Vodafone and O2 people and it was their aim to design and share the infrastructure that powers mobile phone networks. That meant pooling people, cell sites and network sharing technology …click here to read more

Andy Conway, Head of Radio Engineering at O2 UK, recognises how O2’s research resounds with today’s mobile data study from Cisco.

According to an announcement from Cisco this morning, world-class devices and changing customer behaviour will drive the equivalent of one billion DVDs of content over our mobile networks by 2014.

This seems a considerable and startling amount, but when you make a direct comparison with voice call traffic volume, it becomes understandable.

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