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Mobile World Congress 2011 really started on the February 13, with Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia all holding press conferences on Sunday evening. The first official day, February 14, started out with LG announcing a pair of new devices, but what else happened during day one of MWC 2011? Here’s a brief rundown: BlackBerry App World RIM [...]
Mobile World Congress 2011 Daily Roundup – Day One
p styletextalign justifyMobile World Congress 2011 really started on the February 13, with Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia all holding press conferences on Sunday evening. The first official day, February 14, started out with LG announcing a pair of new devices, but what else happened during day one of MWC 2011 Here8217s a brief rundownpp styletextalign justifystrongBlackBerry App Worldstrongpp styletextalign justifystrongimg classsizefull wpimage23726 aligncenter titleRIMStandMWC srchttpblog.dialaphone.co.ukwpcontentuploads201102RIMStandMWC.jpg alt width300 height224 strongpp styletextalign justifyRIM announced a total of 27 new markets for BlackBerry App World, where Blackberry owners can download any of the 18,000 applications for their device using PayPal or a Credit card. Notable additions include Russia, Greece, Iceland, Sweden, Malta and various Eastern European countries.pp styletextalign justifyAlso announced was 8216Gifting8217, a service which allows one App World subscriber to buy another App World subscriber an app or even airtime as a gift.pp styletextalign justifyp styletextalign justifystrongGlu Mobile Show Guitar Hero for the Xperia Play.strongpp styletextalign justifySony Ericsson8217s Xperia Play is easily one of the most exciting new phone releases to come from MWC so far, and in the videobelow, we can see Glu developing Guitar Hero and Gun Bros for the phone, along with some insight into where they see the platform going.pp styletextalign justifyobject classidclsidd27cdb6eae6d11cf96b8444553540000 width425 height350 codebasehttpdownload.macromedia.compubshockwavecabsflashswflash.cabversion6,0,40,0param namesrc valuehttpwww.youtube.comvde4bAmdH8U embed typeapplicationxshockwaveflash width425 height350 srchttpwww.youtube.comvde4bAmdH8Uembedobjectpp styletextalign justifyp styletextalign justifystrongPowerVR GPUstrongpp styletextalign justifyThe PowerVR GPU is used in a variety of smartphones and handheld games machines, from the iPhone 4 to the new Sony NGP, and the company has revealed some of their plans for the future. The Series 6 PowerVR chips are likely to offer speeds around the same as those found inside desktop machines today, and could find their way into new hardware by 2014.pp styletextalign justifyp styletextalign justifyspan stylecolor ffffff.spanstrongBlackBerry PlayBookstrongpp styletextalign justifystrongimg classaligncenter sizefull wpimage23737 titlePlayBookMWC srchttpblog.dialaphone.co.ukwpcontentuploads201102PlayBookMWC1.jpg alt width300 height225 br strongpp styletextalign justifyAs well as the App World news we covered above, RIM also announced two new additions to its PlayBook tablet family. Although we8217re still waiting for the first to be released, RIM have added three 4G PlayBooks to the lineup, with support for WiMax, LTE and HSPA networks.pp styletextalign justifyOf course, with none of these networks available in the UK, we don8217t expect to be seeing these here anytime soon, but they8217re scheduled for a selected markets during the second half of 2011.pa targetblank relnofollow hrefhttpblog.dialaphone.co.uk20110214mobileworldcongress2011dailyroundupdayoneMobile Phone Bloga
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