This week?s episode of Gadget Lab covers highlights coming from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which was packed with tablets and smartphones.
The Motorola Xoom, one of the first tablets to run Android Honeycomb, finally got an official price tag: $800. It has a dual-core processor, a high-resolution screen and 4G compatibility, but would you pay that price? We doubt it, and so do many of our readers, apparently.
Another headliner at the show was Samsung?s awkwardly named Galaxy Tab 10.1. Wired.com?s Charlie Sorrel had some hands-on time with it and said the display was gorgeous, but the case felt like a cheap plastic toy.
One of the lamest tablets at the show was LG?s Optimus Pad. Most of the features are cool ? a dual-core processor, front- and rear-facing cameras, and a high-resolution display ? but the ?3-D? spec made us roll our eyes. The 3-D mode makes images display as red and blue anaglyphs (which any computer screen could technically do), to create the cheap 3-D that?s been around for decades.
Moving on to phones, the most interesting smartphone coming from the show was the Xperia Play, which probably should?ve been called the PlayStation Phone. It plays PlayStation Portable games and includes a slide-out D-pad for controls. Pretty neat.
We take another look at the Verizon iPhone compared with the AT&T iPhone. Thousands of customers have been running bandwidth tests with the Speedtest.net iPhone app, and it looks like AT&T comes out ahead in terms of data transfer speeds ? although from my previous tests, Verizon?s iPhone has been the more reliable phone.
Dylan wraps up the podcast with his favorite iPhone app of the week, Infinity Blade [iTunes], a fun slice-to-destroy 3-D game.
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