{"id":1995,"date":"2009-02-22T12:35:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/my-cynical-hat-comes-out-to-look-back-at-mobile-world-congress\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T12:35:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T12:35:48","slug":"my-cynical-hat-comes-out-to-look-back-at-mobile-world-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/my-cynical-hat-comes-out-to-look-back-at-mobile-world-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"My Cynical Hat Comes Out To Look Back At Mobile World Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on All About Symbian<\/a>, I\u2019ve posted my little Network moment<\/a> while looking back at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona:<\/p>\n

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I want to let you into a big secret about the recent Mobile World Congress and your smartphone. Nothing has changed since Monday. Nobody waved a big magic wand and suddenly the world is a happier place and all your problems (even just those around smartphones and mobile communications) have been solved. You could easily argue that MWC hasn’t even amounted to a hill of beans.<\/p>\n

After all, the phones on display are pretty much out of reach for months. The Nokia N97 ‘changed our lives’ in November 2008, yet it’s still not available. The best Nokia could say is June, and even this is in only a few territories, at a rather high price. To the regular reader, that means the N97 will be in their hands (if they want it) close to a year after it was announced. Don’t even mention the Sony Ericsson  Idou…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The full post, Mad at MWC,<\/em> can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on All About Symbian, I\u2019ve posted my little Network moment while looking back at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: I want to let you into a big secret about the recent Mobile World Congress and your smartphone. Nothing has changed since Monday. Nobody waved a big magic wand and suddenly the world is a happier place and all your problems (even just those around smartphones and mobile communications) have been solved. You could easily argue that MWC hasn’t even amounted to a hill of beans. After all, the phones on display are pretty much out of reach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,630],"tags":[924,923,921,922,158,150],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","category-symbian-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-barcelona","tag-howard-beale","tag-mwc","tag-network","tag-nokia","tag-symbian","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}