Image via: Phandroid With a few days left before the Mobile Web Congress kicks off, LG has released a new video preview of its upcoming LG Optimus 3D smartphone. In case you’re not aware, the LG Optimus 3D happens to be the company’s first 3D-enabled Android device and the world’s first 3D smartphone. So, you more »

Chocolate or vanilla? Mustard or ketchup? Cream or sugar? Add the Nuvi phone to life’s tough choices with their new phones officially announced today: the Android-powered A50 and Windows Mobile M10. Asus/Garmin announced these phones just as the Mobile World Congress is just getting underway in Barcelona, Spain. The A50 is said to have “more more »

Several screen shots are making the rounds as of late, purporting to be a leak of what Microsoft will unveil to the world next month in Barcelona at the GSMA World Congress. The shots show a new home screen, browser improvements, and a new way for touch screens to navigate through Windows icons. Don’t believe it.

While Microsoft could learn a thing or two about keeping secrets from Apple, I don’t believe these screen shots are real. I hold that it is far more likely some punk with Photoshop is having its way with the blogging media. There are a few points that make this case for me.

Forget quad-core, AMD is preparing a dodeca-core chip. If you didn’t stay in boarding school if you need refreshing with your greek vocabulary, dodeca means 12, and that’s 12 cores for you right there. Imagine, a dozen times faster than a normal chip. But how fast does one’s computer ever really need to be? AMD doesn’t seem to care if there’s an answer to that question or not (just as its closest competitor Intel doesn’t), and moves on with their plan to produce a 12-core processor to be released by late 2008. It will reportedly be called the Shanghai, and will be a 45nm successor to their not-so-successful Barcelona chip.

If you are like me, you were hoping to be bowled over by this years fresh crop of phones being unveiled across the Atlantic at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona, Spain. The biggest question on my mind is this: who is raising the bar? When the Apple made it clear the rumors of their entry into the phone market were true, many analysts predicted they couldn’t hack this tough road. Since those predictions, we’ve waited for a response. Is there anything debuting this year that will make us stand in line for? Here are the contestants:

Meet the N96, a 16GB over/under slider that is the new tough guy on the block. Shown today at MWC, the Nokia beauty is impressive. The phone slides down revealing a number pad as normal, but also slides up revealing entertainment controls. Fun. It packs just about everything you could want in a phone.

If you remotely rely on your phone, you know this is the big event of the year for new phones. Beautiful Barcelona is where all the hot action happens and this year (should be) the year of the touchscreens. Will we see the industry’s response to the iPhone? I have no idea, but here are what the contenders are releasing early to get our attention:

Check out this sultry Samsung slider, dubbed “the Soul”. “Uhn”, as in a James Brown, “uhn”. Samsung is calling this its flagship model, so you can be the price will be on the premium side of things. This beauty will show this phone next week in Barcelona and Samsung looks mighty proud of it.

E-TEN dropped two new phones for their Glofish brand, and they look impressive. E-Ten’s Glofish brand is getting sexier and these new phones are the latest proof. These new phones are Pocket PC phones geared to always connected freaks like me rather than business folk. Both models feature HSDPA, WiFi and GPS.