Gadgetory

everybody is Michael Fisher with pocket now and this is anthony and we are here in barcelona for mwc 2013 the Mobile World Congress this year is starting in just a couple days our press events start tomorrow so we're here to bring you just a few quick predictions things we think we're going to see things we hoping to see we're going to see insofar as devices and announcements from the major companies so let's have a look so besides the expected flood of unremarkable Android tablets our biggest and probably most headline where the prediction comes courtesy of rumors surrounding Nokia which looks poised to unveil the device codenamed EOS the smartphone might be the first to marry Windows Phone 8 with a real PureView camera experience something to put it mildly we'd most definitely like to see if true it's tends to be the headlining announcement of the show second liter Samsung's note 8.0 the intermediate sized tablet confirmed by a company executive last month if that tablet comes to the market with the rumored specs will see a 7 inch 1280 x 800 super who your LCD screen android 4.2 still gigs of ram with 16 or 32 gives a storage and a microSD slot and of course the s pen it's also rumored to measure in under eight millimeters thick and carry 4600 milliamp hour battery the side from screen size these specs aren't anything new and the tablet continues the design language of the galaxy s3 and an l2 but it's a product we think it might fill a specific niche bringing the s-pen right between the 10 inches and the five enters and back in the smartphone world LG's optimus g pro has already seen a South Korea launched but we're expecting LG to announce its global availability here at mwc alongside the l3 to l5 2 and the l7 to the version of the optimus g pro we saw announced in south korea is powered by a snapdragon 600 running at 1.7 gigahertz and impacts a 5.5 inch display putting it decidedly in phablet territory with its 400 ppi screen and solid hardware build it already looks like a more promising contender than LG's previous phablet attempts and we're excited to see what LG's global plans are for this device and wrapping up the big predictions is the rumor until powered the zoo's fonepad not to be confused with bad phone despite rumors and speculations that this might be a windows power device or a combo like the bat phone we believe that it might have nothing to do with docket instead we've heard it could very well be a seven incher raising the phablet screen size bar even higher packing the Intel Lexington ship and running Android 4.1 whatever the case we'll see you soon be sure to listen to this week's installment of the pocket down weekly podcast for more in-depth thoughts about these and other products and join our pocket now live broadcast tonight februari 22nd at nine p.m. Eastern to tell us what you're most excited about so once again just a quick look at some of our predictions we hope some of those are going to come true and we yeah hopefully hopefully some surprises in store as well that we will compare this video with the predictions with what actually happened so exactly where we were right or wrong yeah we'll be back to wrap it up after the show so stay tuned for I whole smorgasbord of videos that are going to land I usually use the Spanish word every bloopers and bloopers in the in the coming hours and days and look like that yes so stay tuned to pocket now we'll see that