The document provides an overview of announcements and developments from Mobile World Congress 2011. Key points include:
- Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Tab II tablet and slimmer Galaxy S II smartphone with NFC and WiFi Direct capabilities.
- LG launched the Optimus 3D smartphone and Optimus Pad tablet with dual cameras for 3D content capture and playback.
- Nokia confirmed Windows Phone 7 devices in partnership with Microsoft, while keeping Symbian for mass market.
- Intel showcased MeeGo tablets and announced upcoming Oaktrail and Medfield mobile platforms.
- HTC launched the Flyer tablet and Facebook phones with dedicated sharing buttons.
The document summarizes new products, technologies, and
2. SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB II AND GALAXY S II
• Galaxy Tab II shows off its 10.1 inch 1200×800 resolution touch screen,
powered by a 1 GHz processor which runs on Android 3.0
• It features an 8 megapixel camera with LED Flash and Full HD Video
Recording and a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera.
• Galaxy S II has been trimmed down to 8.49mm thick
• Along with NFC technology, Samsung Galaxy S II comes with the WiFi
Direct technology, which allows consumers to connect to wireless
enabled PCs and printers without the need for wireless access points.
3. LG OPTIMUS 3D AND OPTIMUS PAD
• Along with the Optimus 3D there is the LG
Optimus Pad which is a Honeycomb based
Android tablet launched.
• The Optimus Pad also comes with dual
cameras which allow users to record full HD
3D content and view it back on their HDTV
over HDMI .
• LG Optimus 3D is a super smartphone
which comes with 3D capabilities.
• Smartphone comes with a 1GHz OMAP4
processor which brings extended graphics
capabilities to the palm of your hand.
• The camera unit has dual lenses which
enable it to capture 3D content.
4. SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB 10.1 HONEYCOMB
TABLET
• Latest Galaxy Tab comes with a
large 10.1 inch touchscreen display
• Powered by the Android 3.0
(Honeycomb)
• Tegra 2 dual core processor,
• 8 megapixel camera with full HD
(1080p) video recording and
playback, HSPA 3G connectivity,
MicroSD card slot.
• Expected to release in April 2011.
5. PLAYSTATION CERTIFIED XPERIA PLAY
SMARTPHONE
• World’s first PlayStation certified
smartphone.
• 4 inch capacitive multi-touch display,
1 GHz Scorpion ARMv7 processor,
slide-out gaming keypad and so on.
• On Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• Sony Ericsson has partnered with
key publishers in the gaming
industry to deliver a rich, vibrant
ecosystem.
• Play will be available in 2 colors –
Black and White.
6. NOKIA EVENT SUMMARY
• Keeping Symbian for the mass market, pitching MeeGo and Windows
Phone Software in the high end.
• Nokia has been given complete freedom to modify the Windows 7 OS as
desired by them.
• Microsoft is playing a very important and deep role in resurgence of
Nokia with the new OS.
Talks are also on to bring Ovi Store content to the Microsoft App Store.
The first MeeGo device from the Nokia stable would also be revealed
sometime this year.
7. NOKIA WP7 CONCEPT PREVIEWED
• Nokia’s Windows Phone 7
• At the nokia event they confirmed that these concepts were a
culmination of two months of combined work by Nokia’s hardware
engineers and Microsoft’s software engineers.
• Combining the best of the Nokia hardware with brushed aluminum
hardware and the Metro UI from the Windows Phone 7
• However it lacks basic functionality including copy-paste and
multitasking.
8. VIEWSONIC LAUNCHES DUAL BOOTING
TABLET
• The Viewpad 10pro brings with dual booting capabilities to allow an
Android VM running on top of Windows 7.
• The tablet is targeted towards the enterprise audience.
• Promises over 6 hours of battery life from the tablet.
• Powered by Intel’s next generation Oaktrail platform
9. INTEL
• Intel showcased MeeGo tablets
• The upcoming Oaktrail , Medfield platforms are poised to provide
unparalleled computing performance in addition to great battery life.
• Intel claims to be working on improving active usage battery life.
• Preliminary Medfield benchmarks show that the OS has double the
performance of competing platforms.
• The Medfield processor will ship in smartphone products later this
year and will support both MeeGo and Android.
10. HTC FLYER TABLET
• HTC with its first tablet device - the HTC Flyer
• This device runs on the Android 2.4
• Later updated to Android 3.0 (Honeycomb)
• Its with a 7 inch touchscreen
• 1.5 GHz Processor, 5 megapixel camera
11. HTC FACEBOOK PHONES
CHACHA AND SALSA
• New fancy HTC named phones -
ChaCha and Salsa
• The new phones have a dedicated
FB key which lets you share your
information to facebook pretty
seamlessly.
• Share photos , links , bookmarks ,
current music track, current
location to Facebook with just
press of a button.
12. ZTE SKATE
• The Skate is the first high end device by ZTE.
• Having fast 1 Ghz Snapdragon processor
• Android smartphone
• ZTE plans to overtake the mid range market
by selling at very competitive rates.
13. HUAWEI NEW DEVICES
• Huawei announced a smartphone and
tablet
• The Huawei IDEOS X3 is touted to be
the world’s slimmest 3.2″ screen
smartphone.
• The phone runs on Android 2.3
Gingerbread
• Their new 7 inch tablet computer
running on Google Android. The
IDEOS S7 Slim measures just
12.5mm at its thinnest end making it
a particularly slim device.
• It is capable of detecting multi touch
gestures.
14. TOSHIBA MOBILE REGZA
• First ever waterproof smartphone
• 125x62x11.9mm (14.7mm at thickest point)
• 149grams on Android OS
• 12.2 Megapixel Camera with LED Flash,
• High Definition Video Recording
15. MOTOROLA XOOM
• First Honeycomb Tablet
• Web Browsing with support for
multiple tabs
• Front facing camera
• 5MP camera with Flash on the back
along with the speaker and power
button.
• MicroUSB , mini HDMI and docking
pins
• Google Maps with 3D Buildings
• Google Books
• Email app with 2 panes
16. LG OPTIMUS PAD
• The device runs on Android 3.0 Honeycomb which has been designed for
tablets and it also features 3D Video capture and playback.
17. BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOK GAMEPLAY
• Need For Speed Undercover playing on the Blackberry Playbook. The
tablet was able to run the game flawlessly.
18. JAWBONE JAMBOX
• Jawbone , the popular accessory manufacturer brought out their latest
bluetooth speaker system here in Barcelona.
• The Jawbone Jambox as it is called allows you to connect your phone to
the device wirelessly and playback your music via the speakers.
19. VMWARE
Over 250,000 VMware customers are moving to the cloud,
following a journey that ends in your datacenters, not ours.
Our approach is unique. Only VMware offers a unified cloud
software platform to support the flexible, low-cost deployment of
today’s and tomorrow’s applications.
And only VMware provides a way for you to offer a cloud
workspace where business users can access applications and data
independent of network and device.
20. MAJOR OPERATORS CONNECT TO WAC
PLATFORM
Exactly a year on from the formation of the Wholesale
Applications Community (WAC), yesterday saw eight major
operators announce they are now connected to the WAC platform.
China Mobile, MTS, Orange, Smart, Telefonica, Telenor, Verizon
and Vodafone are the carriers ready to offer services.
“We are looking to add at least another eight operators to the
platform this year,” WAC CEO Peters Suh told a press conference
at Congress.
21. TWITTER MUST “WORK LIKE WATER” ON
MOBILE
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo used his special keynote address at
Congress yesterday to call on the mobile industry to more tightly
integrate the social networking service into devices.
He claimed that every device on show this week – from the
highest-end smartphone to the least expensive SMS-only phone –
was currently capable of supporting Twitter but noted that the
experience was often different between platforms.
22. MOTOROLA UPS ANDROID ANTE
Motorola Mobility is showcasing a range of Android
software additions at MWC, including mobile enterprise
security software and device management courtesy of its
recent acquisition of 3LM.
Following the 3LM purchase, agreed at the end of 2010 for
an undisclosed amount, Motorola says it will be able to
make a bigger push into enterprise and government
sectors.
23. GOOGLE BACKS HIGH-SPEED NETWORK
EVOLUTION
Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes the rollout of LTE
networks and new cloud based services this year will mark
the start of a new era for mobile innovation.
LTE will provide the platform for a set of new mobile
applications that we can only begin to imagine.
Android phone activations were now running at 300,000 a
day with 170 Android-based handsets currently available
from 27 device vendors - making it the “world’s fastest-
growing mobile platform.”
24. OPERATOR KEYNOTES CALL FOR OPEN
SYSTEMS
Consumers want to view or access the same content across a
number of devices, and not be restricted by the particular
characteristics of an OS, device or network.
This openness, according to Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s CEO,
should be a powerful message for the mobile industry in terms of
stimulating demand for the capabilities being deployed now by
mobile operators.
“The customer experience will be OS and device agnostic, even
network agnostic,” said Stephenson. “Consumers are not
concerned or preoccupied about which access medium they use -
mobile, fixed or Wi-Fi.
As LTE networks become available, the cloud becomes a reality
and the overall technology matures, the customers’ expectation
for an open and seamless environment is only going to increase.”
25. TECH GIANTS MAP MOBILE INTERNET
FUTURE
The CEOs of Intel and Cisco highlighted how the mobile Internet
is driving fundamental changes in the mobile industry, business,
individual lifestyles and society at large.
26. YAHOO TARGETS PERSONALISED MOBILE
CONTENT DELIVERY
Yahoo CEO outlined how the Internet giant was planning to
deliver content to its 630 million monthly users via mobile
devices.
Yahoo’s new mantra is “content and context,” a goal to deliver
highly personalised content to users.
“Everything that is served up to you must be relevant; noisy
content is yesterday’s Internet,”
“Content and context is the sweet spot for Yahoo.
”In a demonstration of Yahoo’s approach, they showed off a new
product called ‘Livestand,’ a so-called ‘digital newsstand’ that
aggregates content specific to the user. “We have a massive
audience, and all the publishers want to get to that - but they’re
not software developers."
27. HUAWEI CLAIMS WAC STORE FIRST
Huawei announced what it said is “the first global commercial
WAC-enabled app store and mobile phone,” available through
Philippines operator Smart.
The Chinese company said the solution is fully compliant with the
WAC 1.0 specifications.
28. DOCOMMO NFC PHONES
9.6 megapixel camera phone that is
able to take 3D photos with a single
CCD lens and also had NFC so that
one can make mobile wallet payments
with it
Sharp Lynx 3D, a phenomenal
handset that offers gaming,
entertainment and 3D content
creation in a tiny package
Touch wood phone and it was
seriously made from wood
Make payments from your phone
concept was live demonstrated here.
29. QUALCOMM GENERATION NEXT
They announced their next generation Snapdragon Chipsets
codenamed Krait
Evolving Mobile CPU’s, 1 GHz at a time
Coming in single, dual and quad-core versions, these chipsets will
also include the latest Adreno GPUs integrated with LTE modern.
Paparazzi named as top title in Qualcomm’s Argumented Reality
Developer Challenge
The app instead of using GPS and the phone’s compass, the AR
platform utilizes computer vision to deliver the effect
30. WAC GOES COMMERCIAL, KIND OF
It was years since the WAC was unveiled as a collective operator
dream to enable network-enhanced web apps that could work
across any connected operator store
The vision came true: with eight operators, China Mobile, MTS,
Orange, Samrt, Telefonica, Telenor, Verizon and Vodofone
connected storefronts to the platform.
Each can offer 12,000 applications based on the first version of
the WAC specification.
With sep 2.0 has been announced, supporting HTML5 and more
connectivity to native phone features
31. TELEFONICA PREPS CLOUD BASED APPS
SERVICE
“All my stuff, anywhere, anytime”
Frigo (as named) service will let customers buy, store, access and
manage apps on mobile, tablet, netbook, mobile PC, set-top box
TV and other homescreen devices
Will work across Android, Windows Mobile, Java and Symbian
Gives the excitement around cloud-based services and the
potential to bring operators back into the heart of the content
space.
32. ORANGE GETTING FIRST
As enthusiasm for m-payments builds across Europe, orange is
claiming to be the first to announce it would be deploying a new
generation of SIM cards and handsets to enable mobile contactless
services.
The growing complexity of smartphones has prompted Orange to
invest its R&D resources into making them easier to use.
The company claims that users want quicker and simpler methods to
interact with smartphone apps
Orange has unveiled Gestures – which enables access to apps or
services by a simple stroke of the touchscreen, and Live Wallpaper –
which presents key functions of the handset using live - or smart –
wallpaper.