At MWC 2013 in Barcelona, NVIDIA showed off Tegra 4 on several tablets. They were so nice to let us do some benchmarks, despite the fact that these tablets are very early production samples. And boy, did we get the results! As you can see from the pictures, they are much faster than anything we were able to test and review up to now. Incoming Tegra 4 tablets will without doubt bring some serious performance if NVIDIA succeed to maintain clock speeds and yields under control.

During MWC 2013 Jabra has launched its latest range of corded and wireless high performance stereo headphones - Jabra Revo Wireless, Jabra Revo corded and Jabra Vox in-ear earphones. The key characteristic of this trio is that they are specifically designed for hard-wearing, everyday use and portability. All three headphones are able to deliver high quality listening and call experience at the same time.

AMD displayed several reference designs based on new Temash mobile processor, at MWC in Barcelona. As you have probably noticed, most of affordable Windows 8 tablets and slates are powered with Intel Atom processor. Temash is AMD answer for the same platform, trying to prove that affordable price and strong performance can go hand in hand. At AMD booth we were able to see several reference designs made by Compal and Wistron, big OEM’s that make hardware for HP, Dell and many others. You can see in accompanying video that hybrid with a quad-core Temash chip easily run Heaven benchmark, 1080p video reproduction, e-book reading and music reproduction at the same time.

Prominent feature of the Note line of Samsung devices is a S Pen, and up until now it was in different iterations in Note I and II phone, as well as in Note 10.1 tablet. Time has come to cover middle ground, so Samsung introduced Note 8.0.

After 40 minutes delayed press conference, Jerry Shen, the CEO of ASUS, introduced two interesting products, the Padfone Infinity, and the Fonepad. Yup, you got that right, after Padfone line, now we have something very similar, the Fonepad. But let’s start from the beginning.

While cruising at ShowStoppers event here in Barcelona, we was greeted with unusual sight - the newest Lenovo smartphone. Theirs latest smartphone is build on Clover Trail+ dual-core Atom Z2580 platform working at 2 GHz with hyperthreading, fooling some benchmark programs to think that it have quad core inside.

Galaxy SIII submerged in water, without a case and still working? This must be good right? As you can see on two accompanied videos there is some magic there, as two ordinary looking things like a paper tissue and Galaxy SIII are happy to be in the tank of water and still function.

HTC One gained a lot of attention with its appearance last week. HTC was very secretive about this one, with several teasing videos playing with our imagination. This will be a big one for HTC, who started to feel pressure from other smartphone manufacturers in recent quarters. While we had a few things to nag about, what was until recently known by its M7 codename overall left us in good spirits. It is no wonder that we wanted to find something more about it, and among few topics of interest is design.

As you can read below, new BB (BlackBerry) devices are exciting, something we didn’t see coming from Canadian company for some time. As previously proud owner of several BB devices, I am glad to see that tech specs are on the par with top competing products of today. It is not that they didn’t work well enough on midrange hardware; they were just not as appealing as iPhone or Android offerings with their flagship devices. To be fair, earlier BB smartphones didn’t have latest SOC (System on Chip) which was one of the reasons of their failure to keep the leading position in the mobile world. OS and apps, while in many cases good enough, were playing late catch up with competing platforms. On the other hand, build quality was always superb, and I expect nothing less from freshly introduced Q10 and Z10 models. They are fast, thin, great looking, with screens that put even iPhone Retina displays to shame. Q10 even have physical keypad, a great offering to millions of active BB users out there.

December 2012 was the first time we encountered an Android-based phone with Intel’s hardware inside. The model in question was ZTE’s Grand X In, but that isn’t the only smartphone on offer based on an x86 chip. Depending on the region, a few other partners of Intel’s presented their own models, such as Motorola’s RAZR I for Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico and the UK, as well as MT788 for sale in China. Under its own brande, the French mobile operator launched Orange San Diego in the UK and France, while Russia’s MegaFon has Mint. Lenovo’s K800, already familiar to our readers, was launched to the Chinese market, the less-known Lava sells their Xolo phone in India, while ZTE have decided to use an x86 CPU in their Grand X In for certain markets in Europe, such as Austria and Serbia.