I’m finishing up breakfast and getting ready to head over to the Fira here in Barcelona, where the Mobile World Congress kicks off this morning. The handset announcements and other news have already started to flow, and there’s lots to see. Be sure to check back with us this week as Russell and I bring [...]
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Gearing Up For 3GSM, er MWC
The event formerly known as the 3GSM — now called the “Mobile World Congress” — in Barcelona is about a month away. We’ll be there again, covering the event in the inimitable MH style, and looking to meet up with community members and other interesting folks at a variety of events. In addition to the [...]
Let the 3GSM Recovery and Chin-Stroking Begin
Finally getting over a bad case of jet lag and a bug I picked up in Barcelona, so it’s time to think back over last week a bit. A few initial thoughts: I’m still so glad that 3GSM left Cannes and moved to Barcelona, it’s better in pretty much every way in my estimation. 3GSM [...]
3GSM Embraces Bluespam and Porn
As the mobile world gathers today at Barcelona in preparation for the 3GSM onslaught, I’ve had a couple of dodgy experiences from the show organisers, who really ought to know better. Firstly, when I was standing in line for registration, I was consistently urged to accept a Bluetooth message from “3GSM”. I’m assuming this was [...]
MobHappy at 3GSM
Russell and I will both be in Barcelona next week for the 3GSM World Congress, the industry’s biggest annual confab. My schedule is already pretty tight, and so is Russell’s, but if you want to meet up or show something off, feel free to drop me an email I’ll see if we can’t work something [...]
MobileMonday Global Peer Awards at 3GSM Barcelona
If you’re headed to Barcelona in February for the 3GSM World Congress, check out the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards on Monday, February 12 at 3pm. It’s a free event, but places are limited, so sign up now. And even if you won’t be at the event, you’ll soon be able to nominate mobile applications [...]
3GSM Impressions #3
As I’ve already written, 3GSM is huge and even spending all 4 days there would probably mean missing out on lots it has to offer. It would also leave you a foot-sore wreck, badly in need of a detox and a break from mobile stuff. It’s very well organised as an event, but I do [...]
SNAPin – Winner of the Buckley 3GSM Award
The star of the 3GSM show for me was a young, US-based start-up called SNAPin, which has developed a brilliant, bit of software that solves so much operator and user pain, it takes a little thought to get your mind around the implications. SNAPin isn’t a sexy, in-your-face application, but works almost unobtrusively in the [...]
3GSM Impressions #2 – Where Were All the Women?
About 55,000 people attend 3GSM and the exhibition is spread across 8 (that I discovered) massive exhibition halls. It’s HUGE. But the overwhelming impression is of men in dark suits going about their business. If I had to guess, 95% or so seemed to be men. The lack of women is actually emphasised by the [...]
3GSM – What All Those New Smartphones Mean, And It’s A Lot
In my earlier post, I pointed out how smartphones are moving to the mass market. This has significant ramifications for the whole industry, not the least of which mobile application sales. The application download and sales environment is something of a holdover from the days of the PDA: people, typically professional or prosumer users or [...]
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