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The much-awaited Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1-inch version, was announced Saturday ahead of the Mobile World Congress. The device is an update to its Galaxy Tab flagship and would be running on Ice Cream Sandwich with Samsung's TouchWiz UI skin. The tablet has also got a nice feel to it - it's lightweight and slim. It is a definite competitor to drive away the market share of the much-rumored Apple iPad 3.

The Mobile World Congress 2012, world's biggest mobile industry conference to be held in Barcelona from Feb. 27, is expected to be the launch pad for a number of new devices and applications.

Mobile World Congress 2012 kicks off Feb. 27 in Barcelona, and smartphones from Samsung, Nokia, HTC and Sony will all be previewed, announced, unveiled and otherwise fawned over by tech geeks the world over. Not all of them will make it to U.S. carriers, but this preview will give a good glimpse of some of the best mobile tech to look forward to for the rest of the year.

Barcelona, a city famous for its champion football club, is now drawing attention for something else - hosting the MWC (Mobile World Congress), which will kick off on Feb. 27 and run through March 1. Yes, MWC is round the corner and mobile device manufacturers are all packing for a trip to Spain.

Rumor mills are working round the clock to bring the latest buzz on the upcoming iPhone 5. Though Apple hasn’t yet tweeted on the much hyped device, it hasn’t stopped Apple watchers from speculating on the features iPhone 5 would boast of, or its release date.

On Thursday (Feb. 23), Samsung announced that it managed to sell over 20 million Galaxy S2 Android smartphones. The Galaxy S2 which first went on sale in April 2011, has become Samsung’s most successful Galaxy device to date. Hence, the big question – should iPhone 4S be afraid?

Apple’s next generation iPhone is in the news again, and this time, the rumor is all about the release date. According to Macotakara, a Japanese blog, the next generation iPhone, which is likely to be called the iPhone 5, is expected to be released sometime in October 2012, which is not in line with Apple’s traditional release date of the iPhone.

Samsung may not be releasing Galaxy S3 at the Mobile Word Congress that will begin in Barcelona Feb 26. However, the Korean electronics giant is expected to launch a lot of less-expensive devices which are targeted at the budget-minded buyers.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) will kick off in Barcelona Sunday and the fans would finally have the list of the best 2012 wireless devices in hand.

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc's (GOOG.O) widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices.

Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, Samsung's one of the finest smartphones with its astonishingly powerful 1.5 GHz dual core processor, Super AMOLED Plus Screen with jaw-dropping color and Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system, faced immense pressure from Apple's iPhone 4S.

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc's widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices.

Samsung has designated the Rugby Smart as AT&T's new tough-guy phone, and by that we mean it's made to be waterproof, dustproof and pretty much the most rugged device they make. They're targeting construction workers, people who work outside, that kind of thing.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 rumor mill is taking a similar turn to that of the Galaxy Nexus that was released last year.

A Chinese firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses it of employing deception when it bought the trademark.

The long awaited BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is finally out. RIM released PlayBook last year and PlayBook OS 2.0 is the first software update for the tablet, coming out after almost one year later. The original plans of RIM were to release PlayBook OS 2.0 in December 2011. RIM is already two months behind on the original schedule.

A purported iPad 3 display had been handed over to iFixit for a second and even closer examination. A microscopic test helped to find out that the display was indeed a higher pixel density panel with 2048x1536 resolution.

Samsung Rugby Smart, which was unveiled Thursday by AT&T Wireless, with its rugged look and water-proof, shock-proof and dust-proof features, will add some serious dash of toughness in the Android smartphone lineup in the coming days.

Asus may be ready to take over the Android tablet world in 2012, and they'll have their chance starting Feb. 27 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That's when they could debut the Transformer Prime TF300T, a follow-up to the original Transformer tablet.

While Apple is not expected to unveil the iPhone 5 anytime soon, but that doesn't mean fans can't dream about what the next-generation iPhone could possibly look like. Fanning the flame that is iPhone hype, the imaginative minds at Ciccarese Design, led by Federico Ciccarese, have released a new mock-up of a teardrop-shaped iPhone 5, which is really quite beautiful.

Qualcomm has released its fifth generation Gobi platform for mobile baseband, promising 4G LTE option in the forthcoming iPad 3 and iPhone 5.