MWC Day 1

And, like that, day one of Mobile World Congress 2012 kicks off with a bang.

I awoke this morning, flipped on the MWC TV channel in the Hotel Rivoli Rambla, and heard Michael O’Hara, CMO of GSMA (the organization that organizes the show), declare that they set record attendance figures this year. He attributed that to the fact that the show was no longer just about mobile phones, but now included things like car, houses and toothbrushes. I remember when I was running PR for IBM’s pervasive computing division way back in the day when today’s reality was still in its Jetson-like infancy. The world has changed and it is true: Every company is a technology company.
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No sooner did O’Hara take to the FIra airwaves, when my Twitter lit up with news that Nokia announced a whopping 41 megapixel phone camera. As a photographer who finds himself shooting more and more with his iPhone, this was very interesting news. Yet, as an observer of the tech industry, I have to wonder how relevant this is to Nokia’s customers and, ultimately, whether they are trying to compete with Hasselblad, Nikon and Canon rather than their other phone relatives.
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The next breakthrough in photography: Launching #Nokia808 #PureView with 41MP camera! #MWC12

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Mon, Feb 27 2012 03:08:54

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Nokia 808 PureView also has CD like audio recording w Dolby headphone technology &Dolby 5.1. Surround sound. #mwc12

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Mon, Feb 27 2012 03:12:49

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I’m also starting to see something emerging that I think many would find surprising. I’ve now heard two people who work in the telco infrastructure business say that data plans need to change because consumers don’t by data plans, they buy what the data delivers. I’m anticipating this will be a hot topic (pun intended) at tonight’s “Spark the Fires of Innovation” session Alcatel-Lucent is hosting with Twilio, Voxeo and 3scale for a select group of telco customers.
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Best Buy CEO warns that operators’ expensive, confusing data plans & locked devices are inhibiting visions of a connected world #MWC12

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Mon, Feb 27 2012 06:10:11

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Chasing developers: How Telcos Got API Religion and what comes next. Laura Merling (Alcatel-Lucent).

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Mon, Feb 20 2012 03:28:44