Besides a fear of imminent conjunctivitis from handling the same phone as hundreds of others at the Sony Xperia Press Event at the GSMA Mobile World Congress …what else comes to mind?

The HTC One X is clearly the device everyone wants to see, which is why I decided to give its little brother a bit of spotlight first. The One S is sort of a puzzle to me. Though it’s meant to be more of a mid-range device than the powerhouse that is the HTC One X, the One S sports an arguably handsomer exterior

The next step in Intel ’s ambition to become a central player in the mobile ecosystem is dovetailing with mobile carrier Orange ’s strategy to grow its line of own-brand smartphones. At MWC, the two are together announcing a new device, code-named “Santa Clara”, which will be Intel’s first handset for the European market, and the most ambitious own-branded device yet rolled out by Orange

Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Nir Eyal , a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area incubators. Nir blogs about technology and behavior design at nirandfar.com

Nearly a year ago, Square introduced us to the next evolution of its payments product—Card Case. For anyone who has used and witnessed the app being used to actually purchase something (I have), the experience is pretty awesome. Basically it’s totally seamless, and you walk away feeling that perhaps this is the future of the way people will pay for goods in stores.

Editor’s note: AJ Arora is a former Yahoo! product guy and one-time TechCrunch intern. He currently works on startups in local discovery and e-commerce.

The rumors were true, everyone. After months of anticipation and speculation, the device once known as the HTC Edge (or Endeavor) has been officially revealed here at MWC as the HTC One X. The One X (called a “multimedia livewire” in the press release) has an 8-megapixel camera, 4.7-inc LCD display, and 1080p video recorder

Slotted in the middle of HTC’s Android phone announcements tonight in Barcelona, the CEO of HTC, Peter Chou, revealed a new development that is the handset maker’s answer to Apple’s iCloud: a deal with Dropbox, currently the name to watch in cloud storage.

The rumor mill has been hard at work these past few months circulating information about HTC’s latest line of smartphones, but now HTC CEO Peter Chou has announced that the company’s new line of smartphones will indeed sport the “One” brand Chou hasn’t yet jumped into details about specific phones yet, but expect that to come shortly. In the mean time, he has taken to talking up some of the new features seen in HTC Sense 4.0.

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