Ewan continues to ponder on the ramifications of Mobile World Congress. How will the next year or so pan out and who will be the winners and losers? More importantly, in which direction is the smartphone industry heading?

"So what happens now? With the dust settling on the Mobile World Congress (and the Barcelona location has already held the ExpoCadena conference and is currently dealing with the Cosmo Wellness Conference...), what do we all do now?

For the manufacturers, this question is partly moot. The programs shown at MWC will continue to move forward - some of them are almost ready for the public (such as Nokia's Ovi Share), while others are more concept devices and are going to need a lot of work before getting to the market. And under all of that, there will be little teams all squirreling away trying out crazy ideas, new interfaces, and thinking the unthinkable (such as "let's try using Windows Mobile to get noticed in America...")."

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