* The Mobile World Congress 2014 Thread *

Cosimo · 21 Feb 2014 at 10:22

Starts on MONDAY:

http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

Expected:

Samsung: Galaxy S5, Galaxy Gear 2. Unpacked event @ 19:00 GMT on 24th.

Nokia: Lumia 1820 and 2020. Project Normandy, Nokia and Android!

HTC: The All New One. London press event on 25th.

LG: LG G2 Mini , third generation L series phones.

Sony: Xperia Z2 Sirius, new tablets.

Tizen: Launch of first phones running the OS.

Google: don’t expect much but possibly a picture of the new Nexus 10, Nexus 8….

It promises to be an exciting few days. Bring it on!

Orcvader · 21 Feb 2014 at 10:24

I don't think HTC will announce the M8, they have an event on the 25h March. They are rumoured to announce a few smartwatches during MWC however.

Cosimo · 21 Feb 2014 at 10:34

Here come the teasers....

RSR · 21 Feb 2014 at 11:03

I didn't think Nokia are going to announce any phones till build 2014?

Robbo · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:05

All aboard the Galaxy S5 hype train. I'm ready!

Freefaller · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:21

Might see some of Google's project Tango?

http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

That would be interesting (certainly from the perspective of R&D perspective) - this is the sort of stuff that my team is interested in (I work in innovation).

RIZZEE · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:23

First time i've been remotely excited for a phone release. Bring on the S5

Sunbed · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:27

I think the S5 will be underwhelming. Project Tango looks cool ^

Del Lardo · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:30

That reminds me, I really should get my MWC demos working.

Robbo · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:30

Sunbed said:
I think the S5 will be underwhelming. Project Tango looks cool ^

The S3 to S4 was an incremental update, but not a bad one.

The S5 has to be something pretty flashy and new, I would have thought. If it's just a slightly upgraded S4 then that would be quite lame.

cu3ed · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:40

Calling the Normandy and Droid device is a stretch reading about its, its a heavily forked version that doesn't come with the Google Market anywhere on it. Seems like a small stepping stone from the Asha range.

Samsung better have something good, they need a big distraction for the nasty press they are getting right now.

RIZZEE · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:48

Bad press for what?

cu3ed · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:54

Sammy is a pretty scumbag company in case you didnt know.
Good products though lol.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/20/5...wspaper-to-kill-article-about-another-promise

It was pretty bad enough when they had "competition" winners basically work for them promoting their stuff.

SKILL · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:55

I'm more interesting in the Galaxy Gear 2, although I'm sure it'll only work Samsung phones again but be interesting to see if they've made a decent effort to get proper battery life out of it, also whether the rumours of Tizen on it are true or not...

Robbo · 21 Feb 2014 at 15:58

cu3ed said:
Sammy is a pretty scumbag company in case you didnt know.
Good products though lol.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/20/5...wspaper-to-kill-article-about-another-promise

It was pretty bad enough when they had "competition" winners basically work for them promoting their stuff.

I don't think Samsung have been getting that much bad press, really.

Cosimo · 22 Feb 2014 at 08:38

Another teaser:

Tunney · 22 Feb 2014 at 11:35

3GSM/MWC used to be exciting but most manufacturers keep their biggest announcements for their own events these days.

Orcvader · 23 Feb 2014 at 11:53

Samsung went ahead and announced the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsu...nd-gear-2-neo-smartwatches-drop-android-tizen

chief barker · 23 Feb 2014 at 16:48

I'm in the market for a new phone (still rocking an S2).

Nexus 5, Galaxy S5 or galaxy note 3 are on my shortlist.

Glaucus · 23 Feb 2014 at 19:12

Looking forward to see what the 1820 is, if it does indeed have some sort of lytro camera.

Wp8 needs some high end phones.

The Lumia 1820 will reportedly feature a 5.2-inch 2K 2048 x 1080p resolution display running on a quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor with 3GB of RAM.

It will be powered by a 3,400mAh battery, feature 32GB of internal storage and have a microSD card slot.

In the rear will be a Xenon flash and a Lytro-like camera that allows post-capture retouching from within the phone itself.

Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/...ak-ahead-of-mwc-unveiling#ULyPq1K8cJeMUwxe.99

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