MWC 2014- My take!!!!

Key takeaway from the Mobile World Congress held at L'Hospitalet, a district adjacent to Barcelona in Spain.  Feb 24th -27th 2014

1) 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!