Gadgetory

one of these smartphones is not like the other I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update gadget news continues to roll out of the Mobile World Congress show going on now in Barcelona this is where we learn about the new tablets and phones hitting stores this year now most attention goes to the new android phones from Samsung LG and HTC but there are some unique models for instance would you be interested in a phone that keeps your calls secure and untraceable if you want to avoid being tracked by the NSA then check out the black phone it's made by Switzerland's geeks foam now this phone encrypts voice calls texts and the websites you visit as well as encrypting the data that's saved to the phone you'll have to get your own mobile plan because it'll only be sold unlocked when it arrives in June for six hundred and thirty dollars panasonic showed off a new Toughpad tablet well panasonic insists that it's a tablet even though it should just be called a tough smartphone because the screen is 5 inches like many smartphones and it can make calls but panasonic is targeting this for the business world so it's pushing the tablet title and it's specifically something that you'll see in warehouses because it has a built-in bar code scanner that's also a flashlight this can survive a drop from 10 feet and it can go for swim underwater at five feet for 30 minutes it comes in two flavors windows phone and Android jelly bean and it'll be available in August at a high price expected to cost more than a thousand dollars blackberry is hoping to bounce back making a fan favorite classic phone design with a keyboard and a trackpad yes different for blackberry means going back to old school the q20 will come out by the end of the year but we didn't get to see what it would look like blackberry will focus on selling it to governments and large businesses that want workers to carry blackberry phones it also has a new touchscreen phone it's called XIII and that's coming in april first to indonesia blackberry is hoping to grow in emerging markets with cheaper phones the company gave up trying to win over consumers that have moved on to androids and iPhones and the dual screen yotaphone from is back with a new model this experimental foam has two screens a normal color screen on the front and an eating screen on the back the idea is that you can save some serious battery life by using the e-ink screens which are similar to what you find on a Kindle now you can even turn off the color screen on the front and just keep the e-ink on if you want this new model isn't ready for primetime yet but we should see a version of this in the US by the end of the year that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update and be sure to follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey