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| Mobile World Congress: Barcelona's phone fest | Mobile World Congress: Barcelona's phone fest |
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| The BBC tech team will be providing frequent updates to this page throughout Barcelona's Mobile World Congress to keep you up to date with developments. | The BBC tech team will be providing frequent updates to this page throughout Barcelona's Mobile World Congress to keep you up to date with developments. |
Monday | Monday 1100 GMT |
| The news from Barcelona is coming thick and fast although not all of it is happening on the ground. | |
| Samsung has chosen to launch its new Galaxy S smartphone on March 14 in New York, after apparently being bombarded with requests from US mobile carriers to launch it on American soil. | |
| Looking to markets even further afield, BlackBerry launched it first BlackBerry 10 smartphone in India at a price of 43,490 rupees ($800; £528) while Nokia has refocused on the basic handset market, with a 15 euro (£13) phone. | |
| The Nokia 105, which will go on sale later this quarter, is the successor to the 1280, which sold more than 100 million units, according to the company. | |
Monday 0900 GMT | |
| Rory Cellan-Jones and video journalist Dougal Shaw are heading down to Mobile World Congress to find out how smart cities will help to power the cities of the future. Take a look at the venue before the crowds descend in Dougal's Tout video. | Rory Cellan-Jones and video journalist Dougal Shaw are heading down to Mobile World Congress to find out how smart cities will help to power the cities of the future. Take a look at the venue before the crowds descend in Dougal's Tout video. |
id="heading-2">Monday | id="heading-3">Monday0630 GMT |
| The GSMA - organisers of MWC - predicts mobile operator data revenues will overtake voice revenues globally by 2018. It suggests health-related apps will be one of the biggest draws - and the software could end up saving hundreds of billions of pounds worth of medical costs. | The GSMA - organisers of MWC - predicts mobile operator data revenues will overtake voice revenues globally by 2018. It suggests health-related apps will be one of the biggest draws - and the software could end up saving hundreds of billions of pounds worth of medical costs. |
id="heading-3">Sunday | id="heading-4">Sunday1700 GMT |
| Mozilla's new mobile operating system gets off to a strong start with news that it has secured 18 mobile operator partners and nine launch markets. ZTE, LG and Huawei are among those on board. | Mozilla's new mobile operating system gets off to a strong start with news that it has secured 18 mobile operator partners and nine launch markets. ZTE, LG and Huawei are among those on board. |
| Tony Cripps, principal device analyst at Ovum, is impressed but warns of problems ahead. | Tony Cripps, principal device analyst at Ovum, is impressed but warns of problems ahead. |
| "That is a huge achievement for what, in fairness, has looked like an underdog among the plethora of alternative software platforms currently vying to power the so-called 'third ecosystem'," he writes. | "That is a huge achievement for what, in fairness, has looked like an underdog among the plethora of alternative software platforms currently vying to power the so-called 'third ecosystem'," he writes. |
| "Windows Phone, Blackberry 10, and Tizen all look like better bets on the surface. As such, the Mozilla Foundation and its early sponsors, especially Telefonica, deserve considerable credit. | "Windows Phone, Blackberry 10, and Tizen all look like better bets on the surface. As such, the Mozilla Foundation and its early sponsors, especially Telefonica, deserve considerable credit. |
| "The real acid test for Firefox OS and its long-term prospects is the quality of the software itself and the user and developer experiences that it fosters. However, it will be difficult to say whether it meets those needs sufficiently until we have seen retail devices. What is clear from the Firefox OS demonstration handsets that we have seen was that they are still some way from being market ready, being both slow and buggy." | "The real acid test for Firefox OS and its long-term prospects is the quality of the software itself and the user and developer experiences that it fosters. However, it will be difficult to say whether it meets those needs sufficiently until we have seen retail devices. What is clear from the Firefox OS demonstration handsets that we have seen was that they are still some way from being market ready, being both slow and buggy." |
id="heading-4">Sunday | id="heading-5">Sunday1430 GMT |
| Huawei unveils its latest handset, the Ascend P2. The 4.7in device is said to be the "world's fastest" thanks to a new kind of 4G chip - but has a smaller screen than the D2 which the Chinese firm unveiled at the Las Vegas CES tech convention in January. | Huawei unveils its latest handset, the Ascend P2. The 4.7in device is said to be the "world's fastest" thanks to a new kind of 4G chip - but has a smaller screen than the D2 which the Chinese firm unveiled at the Las Vegas CES tech convention in January. |
| The firm - which some analysts say is now the world's third biggest smartphone vendor - secures a large turnout for its Barcelona news conference at the Casa Llotje de Mar, a former stock exchange. It also unveils its new marketing campaign which will use "make it possible" as its slogan. | The firm - which some analysts say is now the world's third biggest smartphone vendor - secures a large turnout for its Barcelona news conference at the Casa Llotje de Mar, a former stock exchange. It also unveils its new marketing campaign which will use "make it possible" as its slogan. |
| View Rory's Tout video here | View Rory's Tout video here |
| Read Rory's blog on who may win the much-coveted third spot behind Apple and Android | Read Rory's blog on who may win the much-coveted third spot behind Apple and Android |
id="heading-5">Sunday | id="heading-6">Sunday1010 GMT |
| Rory tweets he's in town. | Rory tweets he's in town. |
id="heading-6">Sunday | id="heading-7">Sunday1000 GMT |
| Asus's viral marketing campaign is causing a stir ahead of its announcement on Monday. | Asus's viral marketing campaign is causing a stir ahead of its announcement on Monday. |
| The campaign takes Barcelona's famous statue of Christopher Columbus and makes it appear he is talking into a large phone/tablet. | The campaign takes Barcelona's famous statue of Christopher Columbus and makes it appear he is talking into a large phone/tablet. |
| Tech sites are convinced this heralds the unveiling of the firm's Intel-powered FonePad, which Taiwan's Digitimes news site has already said will launch at MWC. | Tech sites are convinced this heralds the unveiling of the firm's Intel-powered FonePad, which Taiwan's Digitimes news site has already said will launch at MWC. |
id="heading-7">Sunday | id="heading-8">Sunday0200 GMT |
| Samsung kicks off the Mobile World Congress news via a pair of press releases rather than an event. They detail news of the Galaxy Note 8.0 featuring an 8in (20.3cm) screen. | Samsung kicks off the Mobile World Congress news via a pair of press releases rather than an event. They detail news of the Galaxy Note 8.0 featuring an 8in (20.3cm) screen. |
| An email from Samsung highlights that it launched a tablet with a 7in screen in 2010 and claims its new device will "reignite the mid-size tablet category". The move is presumably designed to help it compete against Apple's iPad Mini - which has a 7.9in screen - which has proved more popular. | An email from Samsung highlights that it launched a tablet with a 7in screen in 2010 and claims its new device will "reignite the mid-size tablet category". The move is presumably designed to help it compete against Apple's iPad Mini - which has a 7.9in screen - which has proved more popular. |
id="heading-8">Sunday | id="heading-9">Sunday0100 GMT |
| The BBC's Mobile World Congress coverage is under way with a preview by Jane Wakefield and a look at how big phones can get before you start suffering from wrist ache. | The BBC's Mobile World Congress coverage is under way with a preview by Jane Wakefield and a look at how big phones can get before you start suffering from wrist ache. |
| We'll be running this blog as well as a special video section on the Technology page throughout the event. | We'll be running this blog as well as a special video section on the Technology page throughout the event. |
| Our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, will be supported on the ground in Barcelona by Dougal Shaw, Harriet Noble and Neil Drake as well as the Click team, while the regular tech squad will pull all the other snippets of news together from London. | Our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, will be supported on the ground in Barcelona by Dougal Shaw, Harriet Noble and Neil Drake as well as the Click team, while the regular tech squad will pull all the other snippets of news together from London. |
| You can also follow Rory and Dougal's coverage at the BBC Tech twitter page and our Tout channel. | You can also follow Rory and Dougal's coverage at the BBC Tech twitter page and our Tout channel. |