MWC 2011: All Done Now!
- Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress 2011 was held from Feb 14-17 in Baracelona, Spain.
It’s all over now, and I only wish I had the time and finance to hop a fast plane to have attended, but for a small time freelance journalist, like me, that was “a dream deferred” and way the heck beyond reach. I had to rely on the timely reports of those that were privileged or deep-pocketed enough to attend. I really missed the incredible Spanish food, especially the Paella and red wine, but I’ll pretend and head to the nearest Taquiera and scarf down some seasoned frijoles negros and rice, and make do.
About Mobile World Congress:
MWC is the World Series of Mobile Expos. The major players choose this occasion to ramp up development and marketing in order to “come out” aand launch new products and services. A few will have just taken a first shot at CES and MacWorld and thus should be quite ready and prepared to put their best foot forward. Plus the really big International companies will be looking to get thier messages out globally all in one fell swoop. So, let’s get to where the rubber hits the road.
MWC 2011
Undoubtably, the biggest winner of the 2011 Congress will be Google with tons of new smartphones being introduced supporting the Android platform. The timing of HP’s WebOS event in S.F. was merely the opening volley across the bow for the Silicon Valley Mega company and realtime practice for the big show.
One of the side events was “App Planet – Centre of the Apps Universe” it spoke to the vital “what do they do” solution aspect of smartphones and tablets.
Meanwhile, speaking of tablets, we can soon expect to see a whole horde of “iPad killer devices from a wide range of players both big and small. The year ahead for first-mover Apple will without a doubt be about quieting down the noise and clutter surrounding many of these pretenders and the few real serious contenders, whoever they turn out to be. If Apple has a prototype iPad 2 in their back pocket, sooner than later would be a good time to give the world a sneak peek and then in effect “steal the thunder” of all the want-to-be’s.
It will be clear after the new product launches and P.R. hoopla of MWC tones down that HTML 5 is here to stay and signals new directions for development and content provision. Flash though still in the Android game is no longer the only option nor the best option for rich media.
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