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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Preview of Mobile World Congress: Galaxy 2, 3D Phones

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We’ve been talking about Mobile World Congress for weeks now…pretty much since CES. It’s coming up this week, and IntoMobile has a great preview of the upcoming show. They seem to have a pretty good idea of who’s showing off what, and they’re breaking it down for us.

LG will be showing off the Optimus 3D – the first smartphone to have glasses-free 3D capability. It will be sporting a dual-core processor and a screen running somewhere in the 4-inch neighborhood. They’ve been teasing us with it for a while, and it’ll be good to finally see the thing in action.
Samsung will be introducing round 2 of their Galaxy lineup – both in phone and in tablet form. The second-generation Galaxy S phone is likely to show up, and is expecting to be sporting a 1.2 GHz (possibly dual-core) processor, 8 MP camera, and a 1.2 MP front-facing camera. The Galaxy Tab 2 should also make an appearance, and we’ll finally find out which CPU it’ll be sporting and what version of Android it’ll be running.
Sony’s big announcement is the Xperia Play — the “Playstation phone.” We’re pretty sure we know its basic specs. 1GHz CPU, 4-inch screen, running Android 2.3, with a slide-out gamepad. They’ll also be talking about their Playstation Suite, the game-purchasing platform that’ll enable you to get PSOne games on your device. A lot of gamers will be very interested in Sony’s presentations.
Nokia and Microsoft are expected to be giving some details on what they’ll be doing with their new partnership. While we obviously won’t be seeing any Android devices out of their show, the mobile community is still watching with anticipation, and the news coming from that could have a huge effect on the face of the mobile world.
HTC will be making announcements as well, but we don’t really know what they’re showing off yet. Find the full schedule for MWC below.
Feb. 13: Samsung MWC press conference 9 a.m. — Sony Ericsson press conference 9 a.m. — Nokia press event
Feb. 14: LG press conference 2 a.m. — Microsoft keynote with Steve Ballmer 7 a.m. — Samsung USA press conference 9 a.m.
Feb. 15: HTC press conference 12:30 a.m.