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The Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch combines the company’s Series 5 Ultrabook with a touchscreen covered in Corning Gorilla Glass, so you know it’s capable of taking all of your abusive pokes and prods for as long as you’re using it. The reason for the inclusion of a touchscreen is so you could make full use of Windows 8 on the laptop, which is able to recognize up to ten points of contact, meaning each finger will be recognized by the UltraTouch’s touchscreen. But does throwing a touchscreen on a laptop equipped with Windows 8 mean you should spend close to $1000 for it? That’s precisely the point of our review of the Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch. So without further ado, let’s get down to business.

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Emblaze Mobile’s First Else may be no more, but its legacy lives on. During MWC we caught up with the company’s ex-CEO, Amir Kupervas, who started a company called UIU in June 2011 — only a month after his departure and almost a year after the tantalizing First Else got canned. Over at UIU, Kupervas and UX strategist Itay Levin (who also took part in the First Else project) have a more humble ambition: to offer an Android launcher and an accompanying cloud management platform that are simple enough for non-techie users. “In the US, smartphones generate twice as much the amount of calls to the customer centers than the featurephones,” said Kupervas. “There’s a lot of hustle and a lot of confusion on how to work these guys. People are struggling with them, even existing users.”

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Tech shows like CES and MWC are great for taking a peek at what’s coming up in the world of consumer electronics, even down to the component level. At the latter show this year, we came across DigitalOptics whose name may not sound familiar, but you may already be using its HDR, red eye removal, face tracking, face beautification and other related technologies on many phones (like Oppo’s) and cameras (sorry, not allowed to name them here). Now, this year the company will also be offering its MEMS (microelectromechanical system) lens actuator which, compared to its traditional voice coil counterpart, is apparently more reliable, longer lasting, more efficient and faster with a 10ms settling time instead of the usual 20 to 25ms.

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We gave the LG Optimus G Pro a Best of MWC award, but for a number of you who are waiting for a possible availability in your local market, we wanted to show what’s inside the box, namely: the phone itself, some documentation, a nice pair of earbuds, two 3140 mAh batteries, a USB cable and a battery charger/dock. Note that this is a Korean handset (with a typical DMB antenna), so the content may change depending on your retail location or on your local carrier. However, this gives an indication of what LG wants to ship in the box. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Ubergizmo’s Best of MWC 2013, ASUS Padfone Hands-On Review,

Mobile World Congress is over and we have to say that it was our best MWC yet. The new venue is awesome and the level of organization is well above what we experienced in previous years. It’s not that last year’s Mobil World Congress was poor, but the space was really too tight, and the infrastructure was not able to sustain how big the show had become. Now, we worry less about Internet Connectivity (to a point…) and can pay more attention to the upcoming mobile technologies for 2013. Speaking of which, we have spotted a number of devices and technologies worthy of an Ubergizmo “Best of MWC” Award. Here is the list, in no particular order: (more…)

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