{"id":15051,"date":"2011-02-11T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:04:42","slug":"what-to-expect-at-the-mobile-world-congress-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/what-to-expect-at-the-mobile-world-congress-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect at the Mobile World Congress 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is the 14th February a day for romantics, this year it\u2019s also a pretty exciting date for mobile phone lovers.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileworldcongress.com\/\"><strong>World Mobile Congress<\/strong><\/a> starts in earnest on Monday, as thousands of people from across the industry descend on Barcelona for the high profile four-day event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15056\" title=\"mobilecongress2\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/mobilecongress2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/mobilecongress2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/mobilecongress2-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But what can we expect to see at the conference this year? Well, Nokia and Microsoft have already pricked up the ears of the industry following <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-and-nokia-team-up-on-windows-phone-7\"><strong>today\u2019s announcement<\/strong><\/a> that the Finnish handset giant will start packing Windows Phone 7 into its devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/02\/08\/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin\/\"><strong>Controversial new Nokia CEO<\/strong><\/a> Stephen Elop and his Microsoft counterpart Steve Ballmer will both be present at the event to fill us in on exactly how this huge deal will work. Microsoft is likely to also reveal an update to <strong>Windows Phone 7<\/strong>, while Nokia will bring us news on the future of <strong>Meego<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tablets<\/strong> will be huge a part of this year\u2019s Mobile World Congress. Besides getting a look at the <strong>BlackBerry Playbook<\/strong>, we will almost certainly be tripping over Android tablets as we pass through the exhibition. It will be interesting to see Google\u2019s plans for porting its new <strong>Honeycomb<\/strong> OS onto tablets, and hopefully former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be able to convey some order to the chaotic world of Android operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Other big trends to watch out for at the MWC 2011 will include <strong>mobile payments<\/strong>, <strong>4G connections<\/strong>, <strong>3D<\/strong> on mobile devices, and <strong>augmented reality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OnSoftware<\/strong> will bravely fight its way through the hoards of mobile geeks at the event to give you an insight into all the exciting stuff going on in this burgeoning industry right now.\u00a0 For all the big news and some of the smaller, weirder tidbits from the event, be sure to follow us on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/softonic_en\"><strong>@softonic_en<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is the 14th February a day for romantics, this year it\u2019s also a pretty exciting date for mobile phone lovers.\u00a0 The World Mobile Congress starts in earnest on Monday, as thousands of people from across the industry descend on Barcelona for the high profile four-day event. But what can we expect to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/what-to-expect-at-the-mobile-world-congress-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What to expect at the Mobile World Congress 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-15051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334438,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions\/334438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}