CES 2013 was crazy and boy do we have video to prove it! If you think it all goes right on the first take, you’d be surprised. Sure we could just get tongue-twisted, continue talking, and make our videos just like everybody else’s, but we strive to make each of our videos worthy of the time you invest in watching them. Sometimes we get it right the first time, sometimes after the third or second try, and some footage just misses the final cut completely because it was plain-out terrible! In our second episode of Pocketnow Bloopers we focus on some of our fun moments at CES 2013. Now it ...

During the latter half of last year, we heard a number of rumors about two Huawei Windows Phone 8 handsets. One, the Ascend W1, we saw the company eventually announce at the CES last week. That lower-end WP8 was one we were already pretty familiar with thanks to a number of leaks. The other model, though, the so-called Ascend W2, had been a whole lot more elusive. At one point, we wondered if they both might make a showing at the CES, but now some comments by Huawei exec Richard Yu have us wondering if it's going to be debuting at the Mobile World Congress, instead. Yu makes it clear that ...

While I've only been writing about mobile technology for a year, I've followed the space closely for over a decade. During all that time, the absolute high point of my geek-year has been CES. The international Consumer Electronics Show has a history that stretches all the way back to 1967, but the first one I remember being conscious of was the 2002 show in Las Vegas. It was this CES that, for me, first cemented the concept of "trade show" as "awesome event where cool new gadgets get trotted out." Of course there are other mobile-tech trade shows, some of them much larger and more ...

"The Snowball, the 6-Inch Mate, & the In-N-Out Experience." That's the summary that led us out of our most recent podcast, and it narrowly missed becoming the title of this here episode, number 26 in our weekly series. This is a very special episode, coming to you straight from the luxurious Pocketnow suites overlooking the blink-tastic Las Vegas strip. For the past few days, we've been covering the happenings from CES 2013, bringing you video after video of devices from manufacturers of all stripes. It hasn't been the most hardware-heavy show in memory, but that doesn't mean we don't ...

We got our first look at the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD back at the last big smartphone expo we hit up, the IFA back in late August. Since then, Huawei's paired the MediaPad up with a keyboard dock to help it compete against the likes of the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity. Let's take a look: The slightly-better-than-1080p 1920 x 1200 10-inch MediaPad 10 FHD has the same cool soft-button hiding trick as we just talked about on other Huawei Androids, a feature we wish someone thought up long ago. With a super-thin construction, its seriously high resolution, and now this keyboard dock, the ...

We got a chance to take a quick look at Huawei's Ascend D2 1080p Android around the time of the company's CES press event last night. If you were hoping to get an even closer, more thorough look at the D2, we swung by Huawei's booth and picked one up again in order to offer you a few new thoughts on the smartphone. Like on the Ascend Mate, Huawei's custom software lets you hide the on-screen Android soft buttons with a tap, and on a smaller screen like this, that feature's going to be all the more valuable. Unfortunately, despite the phone's quad-core SoC, it just really doesn't seem to be ...

Yesterday, Huawei paraded out its new Androids, the Ascend D2 and Ascend Mate, at its CES press event, but the Ascend W1 Windows Phone 8 handset, which the company has previously said would make a CES appearance, was oddly absent. Afterward, a company exec showed-off a W1 spec sheet, but we still hadn't heard a formal announcement; what was going on? For whatever reason, Huawei has decided to wait until today to make the Ascend W1 official, confirming the smartphone and describing plans for its global launch. The W1 is on the lower-end of Windows Phone 8 devices, with a dual-core 1.2GHz ...

The more pocket-friendly cousin of Huawei's 6.1-inch Ascend Mate, the Ascend D2 is the company's first smartphone with a 1080p display. At Huawei's CES event this afternoon, we got a little hands-on time with the phone. The D2's five-inch screen gives its display a very respectable 443ppi density. It runs a quad-core SoC, and while it doesn't have the Ascend Mate's huge 4050mAh battery, its 3000mAh component is still pretty hefty by smartphone standards. As we told you during Huawei's press event, the D2 is dust and water-resistant, and based on its ability to survive an on-stage fall, ...