Key takeaway from the Mobile World Congress held at L'Hospitalet, a district adjacent to Barcelona in Spain. Feb 24th -27th 20141) Asian Mobile OEMs are growing in Strength - Huawei,Lenovo, LG,Samsung,HTC etc have made a big impact
2) CES hangover continues: Buzz around 4K video and Wearables continue
3) Tizen/Firefox pick-up: This is still unclear. Firefox has luanched 3 models, Tizen will be in the Gear-2. 64Bit Andorid expected later this year- So Android excitement will not subside
4) New Android fork: Nokia X,XL has created a lot of excitement. I particularly liked their stall
5) Most innovative Manufacturer :: LG ( For the Flexi display I reckon), Best Smartphone: HTCOne
6) Convergence: Cloud/Enterprise , Virtual Cloud, Virtual Smarphone concept from NEC
7) Mobile Networks : 5G by 2020!! Samsung's Demo of the future was really nice
8) Networked Society/Smart homes: Ericsson and Qualcomm's stalls were impressive. But I dont see the next level on Digital soceity anytime soon.
9) P&G displays connected toothbrush : Expected to be availble sometime in late 2014 and costing 200GBP!!! That is a lot of money!
10) Mobile Money is picking up! : In 9 countries there are more mobile money accounts than bank accounts!
