NOMOBILE.RU at the MWC-2010. Day zero and day one. How it was

Mobile World Congress 2010 has opened in Barcelona today, an event that no one who is interested in mobile technology can miss. And already an IT journalist and even more so. Three such technofanats immediately went to Spain from Nomobile.ru: editor-in-chief Nikolai turubar Turubar, his deputy Alexey goncharow Goncharov and our cameraman Andrei Glukhov.




It all started yesterday, on a press day. Sony Ericsson showed the Vivaz pro slider and two smaller versions of the X10 smartphone: X10 Mini and X10 Mini pro. Neither one nor the other was impressed by Alexey Goncharov: “Vivaz Pro is generally past. It reveals a tight, rather dull Symbian S60 fifth edition inside. Small ones that are on Android - X10 mini and mini pro - they are funny, but they look pretty condo. Stubs. It is obvious that SE is trying to set a trend, but it is unlikely that it will succeed. Although I note that the OS on the stubs turns quickly. And the add-ons of Timescape and Mediascape also do not slow down, even though all of them are three-dimensional. And the mini pro has an amazingly comfortable QWERTY keyboard. ”



And Koreans from Samsung demonstrated a smartphone called Wave, which runs on the Bada operating system. Here's what Nikolai Turubar thinks of him: “As far as I remember, Samsung is the first to release its main product on Day Zero. Samsung Wave, with which the exhibition unofficially began, is still the main blockbuster. At the Samsung press conference, the apple had nowhere to fall, the speakers scattered compliments on the new Bada platform, on which Wave works, and prophesied a bright future for the Samsung Apps online store. Personally, I liked the phone moderately: it’s clear that I didn’t find that it’s fast, trending and with all the social features, but still the charisma that we have, say HTC HD2 (and this is not the most charismatic smart!). Leshka Goncharov had time to play with him back in Moscow, so the first hands-onalready on the site . In general, Koreans are announcing several models at the Congress at once, but on Day Zero they spoke only about Wave: they were rebuilt. ”



The first day of the exhibition was marked by the announcement of the mobile platform MeeGo from Nokia and Intel. The list of devices that will work on it includes communicators, netbooks, tablets, smartphones and various entertainment gadgets. The thing is nice. It’s very convenient to have software that will work on both laptop and phone. The platform will be open, and the first gadgets based on it will appear later this year.

Then there was a walk along the stands. Acer found a brood of interesting smartphones. The three most noteworthy ones are androids, and everyone will soon appear in Russia: the updated Liquid e, beTouch E400 and beTouch E110. The youngest, according to reliable sources, will cost only 9,000 rubles.



At the NVIDIA booth, two interesting tablets were discovered - Compal and Foxconn N928:





Motorola was born a smartphone called Quench, but it didn’t come out with an operating system - Android is just version 1.6. Touch 3.1-inch display, 5.1-megapixel camera, support for Adobe Flash Lite and, of course, MOTOBLUR.



Simba was finally updated - they announced Symbian ^ 3. They promise support for three-dimensional graphics, fourth-generation high-speed networks, MultiTouch, HDMI and multitasking. And they offer such a demo video:



And then everyone together rushed to the presentation of Steve Ballmer. There were so many people who wished that not all fit in the hall. Everyone who was unlucky had to sit outside and be content with a live broadcast on a large TV:



The head of all Microsoft showed Windows Phone and the latest mobile OS Windows 7 Series. We are waiting for a touchscreen smartphone with multi-touch support, capable of interacting with Xbox LIVE and Zune. There will be a separate button for quick access to the Microsoft Bing search engine. But Flash support and multitasking will not. Programs and applications will have to be installed through the Microsoft store. However, the working model does not seem to even exist yet, so that everything can change. Sales are going to start only at the end of the year, and before it is still awesome how much time.

Alexey Goncharov managed to write a small column on this burning topic.
 
In general, the day turned out to be eventful and interesting. Let's see what awaits us tomorrow. By the way, if someone will be interested to watch our live broadcast of the first day of MWC-2010, then you are welcome . We plan to do such broadcasts for three more days in a row - until the very end of the Congress.

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