A recap from Mobile World Congress 2008, Barcelona, Spain
Written by LBSzone
Friday, 22 February 2008
Our own Richard Bloor was on location last week at MWC in Barcelona, Spain. From Richard... There were three clear standout "technologies" at the show, social networking, location based services, and advertising. In many respects these are all logical extensions of the existing use of mobile phones. However, the next big thing in mobile is almost certainly going to come from synthesis of all three.
Richard provided the following daily reports:
WMC Snapshot Day 1 - In many respects the biggest news in the Symbian
world from day 1 of WMC had nothing to do with Symbian OS. But, it was
all part of the circus which descends on Barcelona each February.
WMC Snapshot Day 2
One of the problems with predictions is that, unless you are plain
lucky, whatever you say can come back to haunt you. Symbian's Q4
results did that for me at day 2 at WMC.
WMC Snapshot - Day 3
While the flow of press announcements has started to slow down here at
WMC, the overall pace of the show has not. In fact it seems as through
the number of visitors has grown each day. My pick from the day 3 is a
new to Symbian application from LogMeOn.
WMC Snapshot Day 4
Having made much of how busy WMC was on the first three days, day four
was quite a contrast. : clearly fewer visitors and many booths looking
positively empty. By 3pm loudest noise in the Fira was the rumble of a
thousand luggage trundlers.
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