The Mobile World Congress (previously known as the 3GSM World Congress) takes place in Barcelona, Spain, every year and is the biggest European expo for mobile phones. More than 1300 manufacturers gather there in order to show their new models, technologies and plans for the year. We’ll be there for a fourth year in a row and will notify you about the latest things first hand.
Until now, there has been a serious information leak, concerning new devices that are about to be presented, and some of them have even got officially announced. In this article, we’re going to bring together all pieces of information, relevant to the MWC 2009, trying to make it easier for you to see the whole picture.
Samsung:
We hope the rumors, saying that Samsung is about to announce the first 12-megapixel phone will turn out true. It would be lovely if we also see the Acme, which is said to be capable of recording HD video clips and be fully loaded with all sorts of features. Right below, we give you a list with all the phones and other goodies that we expect to see from Samsung at the MWC 2009.
There isn’t so much noise about LG, and information is also too scarce. We currently know that we will surely see one multimedia model, the LG ARENA. Before it’s got officially announced, information and pictures of it have leaked a few times. We can eventually see the KM330 too, which will offer 3D sound. Unfortunately, there isn’t any news about some other models of this manufacturer, but we highly doubt it that it will announce only two new phones.
It looks like the Finnish manufacturer couldn’t tighten up the tap as well, which resulted some information leaking, but in addition, there were some official statements too. The most interesting speculations are that Nokia is about to show some new touchscreen devices and to finally enter the contest of the best 8-megapixel cameraphone.
On last year’s event, Sony Ericsson surprised us all with its announcement of the XPERIA X1. This year, however, there is no information about such kind of devices, but a few interesting models have been introduced just recently. Here is what we should see for sure, however, we won’t be surprised, if the company is up to showing us some more intriguing phones.
In the middle of last month, information and a lot of images have appeared, depicting the future phones of the company, which will to be released this year. One of them has even hit the market already - the HTC Touch Cruise, previously known as the HTC Iolite. We don’t know what devices they are about to show us at the MWC, but the more the better, right?
Last year, Acer has bought E-TEN and an unofficial piece of information has surfaced, giving details about the first phone of the computer manufacturer, the Acer DX900, which is actually bearing the same name and specifications as the E-TEN one. Beside it, we also saw some spy shots of a future model and rumors of more devices that we may see at the MWC. Something interesting is bound to happen, because we have an invitation from Acer, which mentions “smartphones launch”.
It isn’t known much about the product line of the company, but still, it has showed the world’s first phone to utilize the Snapdragon 1GHz processor, the Toshiba TG01. We can’t wait to see this one live!
At the last CES event, Palm has turned the press’s attention to itself, thanks to its latest device, the Pre. At its official announcement, the company has said that the device will be offered exclusively by Sprint, but it has also confirmed, that it’s working on a GSM version. According to the speculations, it should be introduced right where we want it - in Barcelona.
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Others:
Because of the total lack of information, we can only guess what Motorola has prepared. Even if we don’t see anything interesting, we know at least that General Mobile will show us the first dual-SIM Android phone. We may also see more devices with this operating system, which will be one of the hottest topics this year.
Reviewing the “list” that we’ve done, we realized that we are about to face many interesting things and a lot of writing. Now, we’ll start packing our bags for our journey to Barcelona, so don’t forget to stick with us, because the most interesting part is yet to come.
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