We think it's pretty fair to say that MWC 2013 was one part IFA and one part CES: a few stark disappointments peppered among some really amazing stuff. We've seen technology this week ranging from the incredible to the absurd - from the third iteration of ASUS's wild Padfone concept to the improbable debut of a Kyocera Echo lookalike. The big guys have come out to play, too, but they're a little shy this time around: neither Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0 nor Nokia's midrange Lumias blew the roof off the joint. Even a few has-beens came out to confuse us with their wares, some of which will be ...

Call it the Battle of the Power Houses, HTC and Sony are lined up toe-to-toe with their latest top-tier smartphones. In the Sony corner we have the Xperia Z. In the HTC corner is the HTC One. We showed you the Sony Zperia Z from CES 2013 and were quite impressed with it. As Brandon said, "it's a darn nice phone". And it should be. Sporting an S4 Pro quad-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz and backed up by 2GB RAM, it's very snappy. The skin Sony has opted for is fairly light-weight but distinctively different from the stock Android experience that you'll get from a Nexus device. This ...

A little over a month ago, Sony announced its new 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200 Xperia Tablet Z. While that filled us in on some of the specs we were curious about for the quad-core Android, we didn't have much in the way of detail concerning how it would be released. Now, during the MWC, Sony is fleshing things out a little more, giving us some general availability info and talking about the tablet's price. The Xperia Tablet Z will go up for sale in markets all around the world starting in the second quarter of the year. The WiFi-only version of the tablet will be available in both white and ...

Sony premiered its first two 1080p Android smartphones back at the CES, the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. While those should serve as the company's flagships for the time being, some new evidence has just arrived that Sony could already be hard at work testing out a possible successor to these phones, another 1080p handset so far only identified as model C6802. For comparison, the Xperia Z and its variants use C660X numbering, and the Xperia ZL uses C650X. We'll probably also see some C670X models, followed by C680Xs like this. There's really little info to glean from this screenshot of the ...

Sony's HuaShan -- interestingly, Huashan was also the name of an HTC phone for China -- with model number C530x will probably be soon unveiled as the Xperia SP. The list, which appears of the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information's website, also seems to list a certain Xperia L. According to reports, the Xperia SP should be the higher-end among the two, packing a 720p display, and a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor clocking at 1.7GHz. The Xperia L, according to the same report, could be equipped with a FWVGA display of 480 × 854 pixels, a dual-core Qualcomm ...

iPad killers? Right. For the past two years, the media has been filed with that phrase every time a new Android tablet gets launched. And isn't it sad to see some great Android tablets just die on arrival? The specs are there, the design is there, but it seems that customers are what's not willing to be there. You'd assume that in this day and age, when Android tablets are far superior in specs and features when compared to the iPad, and when they run the most popular operating system in the world, this should be the most popular tablet ecosystem in the world, right? Well, as we saw Sony ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the recent announcement of the Sony Xperia Tablet Z, which will apparently make the iPad mini look overweight. Sony later takes the spotlight again as rumors of their first phablet emerge as well. The Nexus 10 goes next as it seems we'll see a minor hardware refresh at MWC 2013. An iPhone math, yes weird name included, is next as apparently Apple is working on a larger iPhone prototype. All this and more after the break. Stories: - Sony Announces 10.1-Inch Full HD Xperia Tablet Z - Sony Leak Foretells Six-Inch-Plus Handset - Hardware-Refreshed ...

Is the six-to-seven-inch range of screen sizes about to become the new five-to-six-inch range? Two years ago, even a five-inch display seemed preposterously large, but since then we've seen not just a number of niche products target that range, but the latest flagship smartphones settling in on five-inch screens as the new normal. Recently, we've seen Huawei's six-inch-plus Ascend Mate go official, and have heard that Samsung might also be headed down a similar path. Now a newly-leaked image suggests that Sony could be planning on joining them with its own super-sized smartphone. Though we ...