10 February 2008

The Mobile World Congress 2008 Barcelona
What To Expect?

There is no doubt that Mobile World Congress 2008 is more important than ever for all players in the mobile value chain to stay on top of what’s happening in this rapidly evolving industry.

It is also interesting that congress is under re-branding this year, I guess it is mainly because traditional 3G and GSM technology is a bit outdated nowadays and from now 3GMS will be known the Mobile World Congress and MWC will be used instead of the oldie 3GSM name.

Anyway, beside all new technologies that will be introduced there and tons of press releases and various different material that we’ll get during the congress Symbian is certainly main subject of our interest. According to latest rumours we can expect to see one or two new Symbian S60 phones and at least one of them will be powered by the feature pack 2.

Everything about Nokia N96 is already very well known, Nokia has failed to surprise us this time, we got the few quality photos some time ago and awkward webmaster over the German Nokia website has accidentally leaked the full phone specifications.

From other hand the Nokia N78 is the still mystery, nothing more than rumour and it isn’t confirmed that we’ll see it there actually although some specifications spreading around last few moths. It is rumoured to be some kind of the cheap candybar, Nokia N73 replacement, it will be S60 3rd edition FP2 phone with 3.2 MPX camera and based on the free Scale platform powered with 369MHz processor just like the Nokia 6120 for example.

Also there has been a lot of buzz around the Nokia touch UI and some people claims that Nokia will demonstrate the 5th generation of the S60 platform on few demo devices instead of showing the already very well known and boring PowerPoint demonstrations.

Apart from Nokia, LG will probably reveal a new GPS-enabled smartphone, the LG-KT610 based on the Symbian and licensed Nokia's S60 platform.

It's a candybar handset running the Symbian operating system, with a flip-out QWERTY keyboard and HSDPA connectivity. Sounds as the dedicated Business oriented phone and with addition of the GPS and very well known LG's build quality it going to be huge competition to Nokia Eseries family. Just hope it will be not ends as the LG's KS10 introduced last year at 3GSM or LG's JoY announced at Symbian Smartphone Show more than a year ago.

That’s all for now, more to come tomorrow, we’ll give our best to cover all hot announcement in the upcoming days so better subscribe to our RSS Feed and be sure that you’ll not miss anything!