In Pictures: 10 best Android announcements at Mobile World Congress 2013

Even though Samsung’s highly anticipated Galaxy S4 announcement never happened, there were many notable Android-related announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8

Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note 8 at Mobile World Congress to compete directly with the iPad Mini, and perhaps one-up the Nexus 7. The Galaxy Note 8 has a bigger display with higher resolution, more and expandable memory and double (quad-core) the processing power of the iPad Mini. Except for making a battery-conscious decision to eliminate LTE in favor of HPSA, every Galaxy Note 8 component exceeds Apple’s specification. It’s as if Samsung’s designers took Phil Schiller’s iPad Mini announcement video as a challenge to build a better small Android tablet. Samsung’s designers delivered.

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