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Mobile World Congress 2013 kicks off Seen as the world’s biggest mobile trade show, this year’s Mobile World Congress features about 1,500 exhibitors hoping to wow the world with their latest products and shape the future of the industry. The event runs from Feb. 25 to Feb. 28.
A man uses the new Ford EcoSport connectivity during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Drivers can rock out to their favorite tunes hands-free using the voice-activated Spotify feature.
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A man checks his device in front of the "Internet of Everything" station at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona. The first wave of the wireless revolution was getting people to talk to each other through cellphones. The second, it seems, will be getting things to talk to each other, with no human intervention: cars that talk to insurance company computers, bathroom scales that talk to phones and electric meters that talk to air conditioners. So-called machine-to-machine technology is all the buzz at this year’s largest wireless trade show, and some analysts believe these types of connections will outgrow the traditional phone business in less than a decade.
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Samsung's Galaxy Grand smartphone is seen at the 2013 Mobile World Congress. The device runs Android 4.1 and has a five-inch display.
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A visitor passes illuminated advertisements outside the Juniper Networks pavilion at the Mobile World Congress.
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An employee displays an STMicroelectronics microprocessor chip.
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MasterCard showcases MasterPass, a new digital service that enables consumers to turn any device into a shopping device.
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An employee demonstrates the thinness of a Sony Xperia Z smartphone. It is 0.31 inches thick.
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A visitor peers across a divide to look at the latest Nokia smartphones on display at the Mobile World Congress.
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A man performs at the Mobile World Congress.
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A visitor tests a Vuzix M100 smart glasses. The hands-free digital display device runs on Android.
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An employee holds a ZTE Open smartphone during a Mozilla news conference. The Open, the company's first smartphone, uses the Firefox operating system, which is open-source. LG and Huawei also plan to debut phones running on the new operating system later this year, according to Bloomberg News.
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A man walks with his phone at the Mobile World Congress.
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A person dressed as an extraterrestrial character hands out promotional badges to passing visitors at the Mobile World Congress.
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The operating screens of Sony's Xperia Z smartphones are displayed. The Xperia Z has a 13-megapixel camera and an image sensor, and is water-resistant.
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A visitor checks his smartphone at a free mobile device charging point.
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An employee holds a Nokia Lumia smartphone at the Mobile World Congress. At the event, the Finnish company unveiled the 520, which is a cheaper model from its Lumia line, and the 720, a phone made for the Chinese market. T-Mobile plans to sell the 520, which starts at $183, later this year.
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An employee demonstrates the video function of Sony's Xperia Z tablet. The HD device has an 8.1-megapixel camera and weighs 17.46 ounces.
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Randall Stephenson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of AT&T, speaks during the first keynote address at the Mobile World Congress. Stephenson said that the combination of 4G and the cloud will drive a “new era” in the mobile industry, Bloomberg reports.
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A Huawei Ascend D2 smartphone is seen in a fishbowl. The water- and dust-resistant phone has a 5-inch display and a 13-megapixel camera, and runs Android 4.1.
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Visitors test a new Samsung 3D device during the first day of the Mobile World Congress.
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A BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is seen in the viewfinder of a video camera. The smartphone, which made its public debut in January, is BlackBerry’s all-touch phone. It packs a 4.2-inch display, 16 GB of expandable storage, and 8 MP rear-facing and 2 MP front-facing camera. It also has a dual-core 1.5 GHz S4 processor and micro USB and micro HDMI posts.
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Workers from Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica wear masks as they protest against job cuts at the entrance of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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The entry-level Nokia 105, the company's lowest-priced-ever device with a color screen, is aimed at first-time buyers in markets such as South America, Africa, Russia and the Asian Pacific, chief executive Stephen Elop said. The phone shows that Nokia, once the undisputed leader in the mobile phone industry, is trying to fend off growing competition at the low end from Asian rivals such as Huawei and ZTE.
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An Android character promoting the Android operating system is interviewed at the Mobile World Congress.
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