MWC

If you are into smartphones and tablets in general you may well have seen from other sites that Mobile World Congress (MWC) is currently taking place in Barcelona, Spain. In previous years BlackBerry have had two large separate areas at the expo but as we detailed a couple of months ago things are a little different for them this time around. Due to the HUGE global launch of BlackBerry 10 that started on January 30th, BlackBerry made the decision a long time ago to not go big at MWC this time around. They are there though and as you can see from the images they have a nice demonstration booth for visitors to the show to come and use BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet.

All eyes have been on the BlackBerry Z10 recently and clearly that's a big focus for BlackBerry at the moment, but they have the full range of smartphones out on show with staff on hand to discuss devices and applications. You have to remember that a vast amount of attendees to the show will not even have BlackBerry 10 for sale in their respective countries yet and even if they do BlackBerry 7 is still huge in many markets around the world.

MWC always sees a barrage of Android phones and tablets announced along now with Windows Phones. The Mobile Nations team that are there have been doing a fantastic job of covering the news so head on over to our sister sites androidcentral.com or wpcentral.com for all the latest releases.

MWC

BlackBerry may only have a small presence at Mobile World Congress this year but they have been in the headlines pretty much constantly for the last couple of months. BlackBerry 10 is rolling out around the globe and the Z10 is getting great feedback which is just what we want to hear.

I suspect next years show will see BlackBerry back again with the big exhibition areas - BlackBerry 10 is just the start of the next era of mobile computing.

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