The Mobile World Congress 2012 thread

Cosimo · 22 Feb 2012 at 10:43

http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

Only five days to go before the big one and the teasers have started to appear.

A super camera Windows 8 phone from Nokia?

A Galaxy Note rival?

http://www.netbooknews.com/45289/galaxy-note-rival-lg-optimus-vu-demoed-on-camera/

Robbo · 22 Feb 2012 at 10:55

Subscribed!

It looks like HTC will be making a big push to get their reputation back, it'll take some doing though.

I'd like to see a Nokia phone with the Lumia design but with an amazing camera, that would be nice.

sarge78 · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:03

Here's the 2012 LG line up. (flippin iPhone 4 inspired brick designs imo

)

L7, L5 and L3.

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_announces_l7_l5_and_l3__will_be_shown_at_mwc_2012-news-3858.php

Optimus 3D Cube.

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_announces_optimus_3d_cube_smartphone-news-3861.php

sarge78 · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:06

simulatorman said:
A super camera Windows 8 phone from Nokia?

I thought it was the 803 Symbian (last) camera phone, a proper N8 replacement.
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_803_is_rumored_to_have_the_largest_camera_sensor_to_date-news-3796.php

kona786 · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:12

Looking forward to seeing the LG X3.

Tegra 3 , 4.6″ 1280×720.

Begbie · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:35

Cmon Samsung, impress me!!

I hope the rumours aren't true about them not showing the SGS3.

Skilid · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:39

Begbie said:
Cmon Samsung, impress me!!

I hope the rumours aren't true about them not showing the SGS3.

They are true.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/galax...se-date-mobile-world-congress,news-37808.html

Robbo · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:40

Begbie said:
Cmon Samsung, impress me!!

I hope the rumours aren't true about them not showing the SGS3.

They aren't rumours, they confirmed it will be a separate event.

sarge78 · 22 Feb 2012 at 14:29

March the 15th for a big Samsung event, so it might not be far off.

Ging3r · 22 Feb 2012 at 14:30

Fingers crossed for an HTC revival, would love a new one to upgrade to!

Rroff · 22 Feb 2012 at 14:37

simulatorman said:
A Galaxy Note rival?

Hard to tell from video/images but looks even further towards a tablet than the Galaxy Note and IMO the Note is about as far along that path as makes sense, screen appears to be squarer than the note too one of the nice things about the note is the nice screen proportions in portrait for viewing web pages, etc. with a lot of vertical content and the widescreen aspect in landscape for movies, games and so on.

Yas786 · 22 Feb 2012 at 14:38

Hopefully RIM will unveil some new BB10 phones...already seen a few leaked pics of the new BB10 phones on crackberry and it looks pretty good so far...widgets look likely on the BB10 phones.

TheOtherOption · 22 Feb 2012 at 14:57

Looking forward to seeing what HTC has on offer as my 24 month contract for my DHD is up in October

godinman · 22 Feb 2012 at 15:00

Spawn said:
Hopefully RIM will unveil some new BB10 phones...already seen a few leaked pics of the new BB10 phones on crackberry and it looks pretty good so far...widgets look likely on the BB10 phones.

That's a bit of lol isn't it? "Check out of brand new, bleeding edge phones, now with a crazy new innovation - widgets!" BB are sooooo far behind. Which is a shame.

I'll be keeping an eye out for W8 phones!

Skilid · 22 Feb 2012 at 15:07

godinman said:
I'll be keeping an eye out for W8 phones!

Good luck

godinman · 22 Feb 2012 at 15:11

EliotG said:
Good luck

Je ne comprends pas. I though that was a video for a windows 8 phone at the top?

ng93 · 22 Feb 2012 at 15:17

godinman said:
Je ne comprends pas. I though that was a video for a windows 8 phone at the top?

Considering that WP8 isn't scheduled for release for atleast 6 months it's probably running Mango, maybe Tango.

I would love to be proved wrong on this though

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godinman · 22 Feb 2012 at 15:32

Thought there might be something running a beta.

Bloomin well hope so!

Myshra · 22 Feb 2012 at 15:33

TheOtherOption said:
Looking forward to seeing what HTC has on offer as my 24 month contract for my DHD is up in October

Xmas releases are revealed in September, MWC is for summer devices so I'd probably hold fire for a bit. I'm presuming Samsung realised that the nearest rival they now have in sales/whatever is the iPhone so it needs to be treated as such. As long as it's not like the ASUS Padfone presentation (click here for hilarity) it should be OK. Actually... I sort of want it to be like that so we can all have a good laugh

sarge78 · 22 Feb 2012 at 15:46

PFFFFFFT, that presentation was brilliant!!!!

Jonney Shih was awesome in Big Trouble in Little China.

godinman said:
Je ne comprends pas. I though that was a video for a windows 8 phone at the top?

It's a Symbian phone!

Simulatorman is just dreaming again, he'll be saying Microsoft are releasing Office 365 for iOS next