The Mobile World Congress 2012 thread

Robbo said:
There's no point in Samsung going overboard when it comes to tablets at the moment anyway as the software is still not all that great.

HTC haven't even bothered at all.
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I think the biggest problem with ~10 inch Android tablets is the lack of decent large screen tablet apps. I prefer the ICS experience on my Touchpad by far but I find I use the iPad more due to apps like TV Catchup (which is much better than the web version you have to use on Android), 4oD (see last note) Sky Go (this might not be a problem soon), and generally the streaming apps feel a lot better designed. A ~10 inch tablet is ideal for things like plonking down on the kitchen worktop while you are cooking and quickly watching Sky Sports News without hassle.
 
Running down Engadget's round-up, I feel slightly depressed.

Apart from the Nokia models, all these phones look the same! They all share incredibly bland aesthetics. Plastic boxes shifted on specs and razor-thin margins - it's the PC industry all over again. Smartphones have become boring.
 
Tunney said:
Running down Engadget's round-up, I feel slightly depressed.

Apart from the Nokia models, all these phones look the same! They all share incredibly bland aesthetics. Plastic boxes shifted on specs and razor-thin margins - it's the PC industry all over again. Smartphones have become boring.
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+1 Nothing was exciting, it was all boring ! :s
 
Tunney said:
Running down Engadget's round-up, I feel slightly depressed.

Apart from the Nokia models, all these phones look the same! They all share incredibly bland aesthetics. Plastic boxes shifted on specs and razor-thin margins - it's the PC industry all over again. Smartphones have become boring.
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Seriously? One has a giant camera module on the back, the other is accented in pink.
You might not like them but the Asus PadFone and Optimus Vu are both trying something a bit different. Also the HTC One S is a unibody metal phone with high technology coating for scratch resistance. To say they are all the same apart from the Nokias just shows you aren't interested in seeing the differences.
 
The new HTC line-up (which looks good) and the outrageous Nokia camera phone were the only two interesting things really.
 
The Nokia raised my level of interest for a few hours and the rest was just unexciting. The upcoming announcements from Apple and Samsung will most certainly raise the temperature quite considerably.
 
bam0 said:
Also the HTC One S is a unibody metal phone with high technology coating for scratch resistance.
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Scratch resistant coatings don't excite me, I'm afraid.

The Asus PadFone and Optimus Vu are both obvious dead-ends too. Where's the software compatibility going to come from?

Apart from Nokia's 41MP camera, there's nothing that's made me sit up and go 'wow, where did that come from?'. All these phones are very predictable.
 
Tunney said:
The Asus PadFone and Optimus Vu are both obvious dead-ends too. Where's the software compatibility going to come from?
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Androids apps (can) come with multiple layouts built in, so for the PadFone you'll get the phone layout on the phone and the tablet layout when docked. Similarly Android layouts aren't usually pixel precise either so I expect a lot of apps would run fine on the Optimus Vu.
 
As has been said in this thread by a few, I really don't see the point of this years android phones, they don't offer anything new/worthwhile over the others [except for slightly better battery life probably] (especially over the GS 2 and GN for speed/smoothness) and are most certainly not worth the expense of cancelling contracts/selling old mobiles to fund the new ones.

However, HTC's range looks much better software and hardware wise and I can see them doing pretty well this year (if priced right).


So in the end it comes down to software/support once again, which IMO is still stock android and the galaxy nexus;

- stock ICS android, no skins
- no apps by Samsung, HTC etc. taking up space etc. which will never be used
- guaranteed to receive all the latest updates officially straight away and not be waiting 3+ months for them to come
- know that you will receive every android update officially up to at least version 6

And for those last 2 points, it means that you don't need to root and flash custom ROMs whilst having a few little niggles and possibly the risk of bricking your mobile whilst voiding your warranty! :D
 
QUAD CORE RULZ Y'ALL!!!!!!!

Whoooooosh!

That's the sound of the Xperia P flying in under the radar!

...followed by a nice big price drop right before I get one.
 
Your disguised text in blue fails on the superior dark grey theme! :p

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