February 18, 2010
‘Mobile World Congress‘ – The current shibboleth of most zombie-turned-technology geeks is what we’re going to look at now, or rather, the day 1 (15-0-2010 ) round up of the much-talked-about event. It was the Windows Phone 7 series, Microsoft’s operating system that could just about grab the crown from Google and Apple that hogged the lime light of day 1 at Barcelona.. The main attractions of this rather funnily named OS are the Zune PC software and Xbox Live games available for the first time on the mobile platform. Windows Phone 7 has so much more to it, and the day was indeed a good one for Microsoft, having attracted a lot of oos and ahhs.
Samsung’s booth welcomed the onlookers with a fresh breeze that emanated from it’s first mobile phone with the Bada OS, the Samsung Wave. (Some name, eh?) Sporting a 5 MP camera, the Wave sports a 1GHz processor and supports Bluetooth 3.0. Acer had quite a lot to brag about, with a few refreshing Windows Mobile 6.5 phones such as the Acer neoTouch P300 and P400.
Day 1 also had Acer hopping on board the Android ship, with the likes of the Liquid E, Ferrari and BeTouch E400 and E110. Liquid E, as the name suggests is a successor of Liquid that comes with a 5 MP camera and a 3.5" touch screen. Ferrari and the BeTouch E400 will run on Android 2.1 while the BeTouch E110 will run on Android 1.5 OS. Toshiba too was seen following suit, with Toshiba TG02 and K01 up its sleeves.
Sony Ericsson launched three new mobile phones the night before MWC started in a throbbing nightclub - the Xperia X10 Mini, Xperia X10 Mini Pro and the Vivaz Pro. The Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro run on Android 1.6 operating system while the Vivaz Pro is a Symbian Series 60 device that has GPS and a QWERTY keyboard, apart from the 5.1 MP camera as highlights.
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