Gallery: Mobile World Congress 2009

Published by Rafe Blandford at 15:09 UTC, February 15th 2009

Mobile World Congress is the biggest mobile event of the year. This live gallery has images we've taken as we move around the event between February 15th and 19th. Devices and service galore from any number of companies.

You can also see these images on Flickr.

Samsung touch advertising
Omnia HD, Beta DJ and Ultra Touch

Omnia HD eh?
Samsung will be launching this device tomorrow. Its rumoured (ok it's certain) to run S60 5th Edition. Looks like Samsung are going to be Nokia a real run for their money. The first main stream global HD video capture mobile phone?

Metro
3G on the metro - both good and bad...

No advertising
or rather... a lot less. Normally these buildings are covered in advertising. there is some about, but there have definetely been cut backs this year.

MWC Towers
The Fira towers, probably the most recognisable landmark at MWC.

MWC Entrance
There'll be an estimated 50,000 people coming through here tomorrow.

Theme for 2009
It's not like you want to think about what's going on right now is it?

Samsung Touch
Samsung doesn't really do subtle advertising at MWC. In case you missed it - it is all about touch!

Sony Ericsson branding
Entertainment unlimited eh? A reference to the unlimited Play now Arena service.

The venue
More mobile stuff than you can shake a stick at.

Sony Ericsson Idou Touch screen
Large touch screen on the front with send, home and end keys on the bottom.

Idou from the left hand side
Sony Ericsson connector, microSD card slot, key lock.

Idou from the right hand side
Camera capture, album, volume controls

Idou camera
12.1 megapixels. That's the highest ever on a Symbian device.

12.1 megapixel camera
Of course there's the megapixel myth to consider. But it is a statement about how Sony Ericsson see this phone. Decidedly high end - not something we were initially expecting from Sony Ericsson's Symbian Foundation Platform phones.

WiFi and GPS
It says it on the side after all...

Three buttons
A configuration familiar to any 5800 user.

Concept phone... but reality in due course
Yes it is a concept... but it might be better expressed as a phone still in development. We're seeing it six months earlier than usual.

Behind glass
There are many Idou's in the world right now...

Into the press conference

Waiting for Nokia
With lights and music

OPK

Environment

Kai is on the stage

N97 in shops in June

Eseries is about people

E55
Thin with long battery life are the headline features. Half QWERTY keyboard - two letters per key.

E75
New messaging application looks very promising. I imagine Blackberry is going to have a few sleepless nights.

375 Euro and order now

Ovi Store on the N97
Not just about applications

Partners already signed up
Who wouldn't want potential access to 300 m people?

Ovi Store.
March for content publishers, May Launch, June N97, Global in the fall.

Q and A

More Samsung

Samsung Press Conference

Omnia HD (honest)

Mail for Exchange including HTML support

Multiple mail boxes

E75

E75 from the side
Industrial design shines again in Eseries. Compared to similar form factor phones this is very thin.

E75 from the back

E75 full QWERTY

E75 - horizontal slider.

E55 and E75

Half QWERTY keyboard
Works predictively.

3.5 mm audio jack on E55

Ovi services are go
The E55 is also fully service enabled.

Nokia E55

E55 from the side - very thin
The E55 is impressively thin. Very nice looking / feeling device.

Symbian Foundation stand

OSM-S60 - very cool
Demo of Open Street Map on %800 from WiB Software

Ambulances on stand by
Just in case all the new phones get you too excited.

E55's big battery
Battery life time getting closer to decent.

E55 keys
If you look closely you can see the middle columns are raised slightly higher than the outer columns. Also the keys 'fall' from front to back. This make a significant difference to usability / accuracy of the keyboard.