NOMOBILE.RU at MWC-2010. Second day

The second day at Mobile World Congress 2010 was no less intense than the first. Only here our combat contingent in Barcelona decreased - Alexey Goncharov flew to Munich to the Panasonic convention. Only Nikolay Turubar and his loyal cameraman Andrei Glukhov remained.


The day began quite severely. The morning presentation of the LG GD880 Mini and GT540 Swift smartphones could not be reached. Perhaps, only Koreans could have thought of starting an event at 8 am! Do not think bad things - Turubar and Glukhov did not oversleep, but were concerned about moving from one hotel to another. LG phones, by the way, are hard to call novelties - all the details about them were known long before the start of the MWC.
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Aleksey Goncharov, meanwhile, landed in Munich and immediately began to mount a video demonstrating the capabilities of the Samsung Wave bada smartphone, shown at the exhibition yesterday:



When the move was over, Nikolai Turubar wrote down a small stand-up card reader (he was too lazy to put it on YouTube and uploaded only on Facebook , so I can’t pick it up here) and ran to hunt for news.



It turned out that the popularity of the AppStore so tortured all of Apple's competitors that they could not stand it and united under the brand of the Wholesale Applications Community . They want to wipe Steve Jobs's nose by creating an open platform for selling mobile applications. There are chances - 24 large companies have entered the alliance, including the Asian monster of China Mobile telecom. Their total audience is 3 billion people.

Then there was the presentation of HTC , on which Taiwanese showed just three very nice new things: the “forged” smartphone Legend, the sophisticated communicator Desire and a smaller version of its top product - the HD Mini.



- HTC Legend : one-piece aluminum body, 3.1-inch AMOLED display, 600 MHz processor, Android 2.1
- HTC Desire : 3.7 inch AMOLED display, 1 GHz processor, Android 2.1
- HTC HD Mini : 3.2-inch display, 600 MHz processor, WM 6.5.3, can work as a Wi-Fi spot.

NTS President Peter Chou said that he was going to bring the company into the top three of the world's largest manufacturers of smartphones by 2013. And he has all the chances, in general.



The final chord of the second day was a joint statement from Skype and Verizon Wireless . The American operator will now pre-install software from Skype on all mobile phones that it sells. Everybody wins from this: corporations get the desired revenues, and consumers enjoy VoIP telephony flowing through Verizon Wireless's 3G network.

Later in the evening, Nikolay Turubar shared his impressions: “In general, the sensations from the exhibition are contradictory. On the one hand, the number of well-known brands has decreased and not so many interesting products. On the other hand, almost all of them pleased me: the trends are clear, not smeared evenly by press releases. The leitmotif is expected and logical - Android under various sauces. Tomorrow I finally have a free day. There will be time to quietly wander around the small stands and finally catch my breath. "

PS In parallel with all this disgrace, the presentation of the Mobile World Congress 2010 Awards was held . Opera did not win, and Steve Jobs became the person of the year. :) The full list of champions is on macworld.co.uk

Links to my other posts about MWC-2010: day one , day three , day four .