Ahead of the upcoming Mobile World Congress, Samsung has announced today another Android tablet which is said to be the company's first in the line-up of its 2012 tablets. The Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) runs on Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich with Samsung flavor of its own TouchWiz user interface enhancement. Available in 3G and WiFi, the 3G version is said to support quadband GSM/GPRS/EDE as well as UMTS/HSDPA+/HSUPA, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi b/g/n with Wi-Fi Direct and USB 2.0 Host. Both versions of the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) are powered by a 1 GHz dual-core CPU and will sport a 7" WSVGA PLS TFT touchscreen with 1024 x 600 pixel.

While we got the confirmation that Samsung won't unveil the expected Samsung Galaxy S III at this month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung also said that it will announce some exciting new products anyway and one of these products could be the European LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. The Global Certification Forum (GCF) just approved a LTE-enhanced Samsung 8.9" tablet which is expected to follow last year's launched Galaxy Tab 8.9 which came without LTE support. According to the GCF, Samsung's GT-P7320 will support quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as dualband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 900/2100 MHz and dualband LTE at Europe's 800 MHz/2.6 GHz bands.

Following HTC's earlier confirmations to offer Android 4.0 upgrades for a wide range of Android 2.3/Gingerbread devices, HTC has yesterday further defined via Facebook which devices will receive Ice Cream Sandwich when. The first round of ICS upgrades is going to HTC's Sensation-line of Android phones, which will be rolled-out by the end of March for the HTC Sensation and HTC Sensation XE, followed soon thereafter for the HTC Sensation XL. Without defining the date, HTC again confirmed that Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades will come later this year to the HTC EVO 3D, HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S and even the good old HTC Desire HD.

Beside supporting its own Windows Phone 7, so far Microsoft gave most apps-love to iOS since Redmond released quite a bunch of useful apps for the iPhone and iPad. However, this might change now because yesterday, Microsoft has launched the first really useful app for Android: OneNote Mobile. On the PC, the phone or the web, OneNote goes everywhere. OneNote Mobile for Android is a note-taking app for capturing all the ideas and to-dos on the go. It allows to create notes with text, pictures, and bullets as well as it allows to make and manage to-do lists with checkboxes. But the most interesting part is, that Microsoft OneNote for Android is synchronized with Microsoft's free SkyDrive online storage.

Do you remember when we spotted the European LTE version of the HTC Velocity some weeks ago? As the German Vodafone press department now confirmed, Vodafone Germany is planning to launch HTC's first LTE smartphone in Germany (and most likely other European countries) soon. Running on Android 2.3/Gingerbread, the HTC Velocity is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU and supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, dualband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 900/2100 MHz as well as dualband LTE at 800/2600 MHz, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi b/g/n and aGPS. The Velocity features a 4.5" qHD touchscreen and sports a 8 megapixel autofocus 1080p HD camera on the back and a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera.