We made the long journey and are here on the grounds at Mobile World Congress — and even though it’s supposed to be winter this sunny 65 degree weather sure is nice. You can’t tell by walking around that it’s winter but we’ll take all the sun we can get. Along with it will be great news and we have plenty of upcoming products to enjoy and show you in action.
Today Nokia has silently released a video showing off a teaser of what's to come at Mobile World Congress 2012, in it several panning shots on fabulously high definition photos. This teaser shows off what they're saying is "Pure View" for a future smartphone we must assume, as Nokia's big drive this season has been and will continue to be Windows Phone hero devices. Perhaps it's time to bring the big 12 megapixel cameras in to the UK and the USA on smartphones finally? We'll see in less than a week!
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One of the most awesome displays of power at last year’s Mobile World Congress was Google’s own Android setup, it being a vast room of gigantic robots, two levels of giant images of devices and Android characters having a wonderful time, and a conveyer belt of every Android device on the planet. This year it appears that they’re rolling out the details piece by piece on a special MWC 2012 events page, complete with a countdown meter. Will we see the same massive set of preferred developers, free collectable pins, and Android version flavored smoothies? We certainly hope so!
The folks at Microsoft have announced today that they'll be doing away with the yearly MIX developer conference starting this year in favor of moving it up and into a new developer conference later in the year which they will be announcing soon. What we're perhaps looking at here is a hope that the Windows Phone community will have grown to an equitable level by then given the popularity of the Nokia devices released early this year, but as Microsoft says, the Web Community being no longer separate from the developer community as it has been in the past makes for a better conference in a single form in the future. This means that there will, barring disasters before then, be a conference at the end of 2012 instead of any earlier.
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The folks at AT&T have detailed a set of tools that'll allow apps to run faster, use less power, and consumer bandwidth more efficiently, as they say. There are two components to this system: a data logger and an offline resource analyzer. You take a device, collect data, and transfer the data to a PC which shows the data dissected to the level you wish. This took is currently available to developers through AT&T's developer site, it already working with Pandora and Zynga, Tom Conrad and Jeff Zakrzewski of those groups speaking on the tool.
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It is once again time for the biggest show of the year, a week-long event festival by the name of CES – the Consumer Electronics Show 2012! We’ll be here for the rest of the week, covering everything you’ll want to know from gadgets to technology to oddities and back again. We’ve got a full team ready to give you what you want in full schedule of events through the beginning of the week and a fabulous collection of devices across the show floor through the end of it – you’re gonna get so much CES 2012 this year your ears will be ringing.
This week at the “These Go To Eleven” event in Los Angeles, California, Google has revealed that they will begin digital sales of music through the Android Market with Google Music. This announcement puts Google in what they hope will be direct competition with the giants of online music sales such as iTunes, but places the ability to purchase music right alongside their apps, books, and video sales. This event, mind you, took place at Mr Brainwash Studios, this fellow Mr Brainwash the guy you may know well from the graffiti artist Banksy’s film “Exit Through the Giftshop” – his artwork strewn about the walls.
This week we’ve gotten word via a lovely invitation from the big G that a Google Music event will be coming this month. This event’s title suggests that it will somehow relate to none other than everyone’s favorite fake shock rock group, aka England’s Loudest Group, Spinal Tap, what with the “These Go To Eleven” note right up at the top. Will we see some purchasing of music coming to our doorstep soon?
This week at the HTC / Beats event in New York City which played host to the reveal of HTC next big device the HTC Rezound, Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Beats by Dre, was invited on stage to regale about the device and its history. What you'll find is that not only does he have complete faith in the record industry, he sees HTC as the next stepping stone that'll keep the record industry out of the water that'll otherwise drown it. Will the man who spearheaded the connection between HP and Beats be able to knock out another winner with the first HTC / Beats collaborative device in the HTC Rezound? We shall see!
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Between the months of November and January Apple will be re-birthing their Tech Talk World Tour with an iOS 5 focus, tutorials, talks, and more set to fill the global events. There's a brand new page up at Apple showing off that there will be limited space at each event and that all iOS Developer Program members are more than welcome to attend. Limited space means that Apple will be giving priority entry to those developers who have n app currently available at the iTunes iOS App Store. The first location will be Berlin and will take place on November 2nd, 2011, and the last will be right down at the lower end of the United States in Austin, Texas, on January 23rd, 2012.
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It's the biggest Google developer event of the year, Google IO, and it feels like we were just there, but next year's dates have been announced already! The 2012 Google IO event will be taking place on April 24th through the 25th and will be housed at the fabulous Moscone Center West in San Francisco, California. Heat! Bring your Easter baskets and put those Android bunny ears on because by that time, it'll be a whole different game on the mobile operating system front for the big G. Add that date to your calendar folks, we'll be there without a doubt!
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This post is just a big reminder for you that we will indeed be hitting up China for some tasty treats this Tuesday at the Samsung / Google event in Hong Kong. It’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich we’re expecting, and we’re gonna get it! Not only that, we expect a lovely new device by the name of Samsung Galaxy Nexus – we’ve also hear Nexus Prime as a possible name, but if this poll has anything to say about it, Galaxy Nexus is the real deal. In Hong Kong the event is on the 19th of October at 10AM – conveniently that is also the time of day, 12 hours earlier, that it will be taking place New York time — October 18th at 10PM.
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