What happened at Mobile World Congress?
Mark Bridge writes:
We’re back from Mobile World Congress – and what a show it was. Located at a new site that saw more visitors than ever before, the show had everything… except any particularly obvious theme from hardware manufacturers. Last year was the year of the quad-core smartphone, this year there was plenty of incremental innovation but nothing truly startling.
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Last night the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced the winners of its inaugural Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards competition.
Winner of the Prototype category - and overall winner, chosen from over 300 submissions - was the Tethercell battery adaptor, a product that enables almost any product using AA batteries to be controlled or monitored via Bluetooth.
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New Nokia Asha 205 has a dedicated Facebook button
Nokia has launched two new feature phones today. The Nokia Asha 205 has a QWERTY keyboard and dedicated Facebook button while the Nokia 206 has a ‘candy bar’ design.
Both are expected to go on sale from around $62 SIM-free (£46 incl. VAT) later this year.
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ABI Research has forecast that Bluetooth Smart - the new low-power Bluetooth v4.0 specification - will drive cumulative Bluetooth-enabled device shipments to 20 billion units by 2017.
The first ten years of Bluetooth availability saw cumulative shipments of Bluetooth-enabled devices reach 5 billion, largely resulting from its use in mobile phones.
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Mark Powell, who started his mobile career at Technophone Ltd before working for Nokia, Motorola and Kineto Wireless, has been appointed as the new executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
Mr Powell co-founded Kineto Wireless in 2001, working as vice president of the company’s client software business before joining the Bluetooth SIG.
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