The Samsung Galaxy S5 was launched yesterday with much aplomb in Barcelona. During the course of the announcement, Samsung announced that the smartphone will feature a quad core Snapdragon 801 chipset. But there was nothing specified about an octa core model, which was a tad surprising.

One of the key issues raised during the Nokia X announcement yesterday was pertaining to app compatibility. While Nokia made it clear that side loading of applications will be supported on the smartphone, it didn’t actually give out a specific number.

Lenovo has just announced three budget smartphones along with the all-new 10 inch YOGA tablet during the MWC in Barcelona earlier today. The budget handsets go by the model numbers S660, S850, and the S860. You can find the complete hardware specifications of the three handsets below:

Geeksphone and Silent Circle, the makers of the privacy friendly Blackphone, have now shared more details on the hardware and the availability of the smartphone. The two companies were present at the MWC in Barcelona to demonstrate the functioning of the device.

The WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum took the stage in Barcelona today to announce the arrival of voice calling to the Android and iOS variants of the application.