Adéu, Barcelona: MWC 2010 draws to a close
By Chris Ziegler 
posted February 18th 2010 6:53PM
posted February 18th 2010 6:53PM
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As fantastical as it might sound, mobile trade show season isn't over just yet -- CTIA Wireless and Microsoft's MIX are on deck for next month, so stay tuned for the kind coverage of those shindigs that only Engadget can offer. See you next year, Espanya!
Pretty comprehensive coverage, some really cool stuff to look forward to. Great job guys!
@DirtyVegas
HTC Wins
@TonyMontana2367 Personally, I would give it to Microsoft.
@ndrwme
If Microsoft wins, so does HTC. You'd be hard pressed to find a better Microsoft Partner in the phone arena.
@Delta Both were pretty big winners at this years show.... can't wait to see what htc comes up with for windows phone 7. I am hoping we get an AMOLED HD3 on sprint. That would be my dream phone.
Liked the coverage but don't you think that Adiõs or Chao would have been more appropriate in the title than Adéu? Just saying...
if only i could have gone,, maybe i could have gotten an htc desire..
@AndroidRokz So you desire a desire? *badabump*
They don't have snow in Barcelona? The whole Europe is under the pillow!
@loocas
Spain is in the hot part of europe
@loocas
One guy in the pic is in a T-shirt
@commenter7 Oh, really?
Who would've though... :)
Anyways, it's fuckin -12 Celsius here in Prague!
@loocas It's a Mediterranean coastal city
@Valicore OK, you won. :)
Seconded. Fantastic job! And after CES, you guys thought we'd let you sleep!
Don't make me laugh!
:D
@spasewalkr
Speaking of forcing the crew of Engadget to stay awake, WHERE'S MY NEXT PODCAST???
Was Engadget the only major blog at MWC? I hardly saw any mwc news from other sites
I am sure you had such a wonderful time, not only @ MWC, but @ Barça. It is such a great city to visit. Great food, vast culture, funny people. Nice touch of adding Catala hehe. Adeu!
Isn't Spain España in Spanish?
@BearCobra
Technically yes, but Barcelona is in Catalonia and many people there think of themselves as a separate - at least culturally - country from Spain, therefore they speak Catalonian.
@shishi Catalonia is actually considered a nation inside the Spanish state. It has it's own language a culture. Espanya = Spain in Catalan, Adéu is farewell.
@BearCobra
Yea Catalan is Spanish with heavy French influence.
@shishi Does not compute. People speak Catalan because they feel more comfortable using it not because they feel Cataluña should be independent.
Any how if feels great to see that while in the show some people picked the right amount of indoctrination to embed some politics in a simple tech blog.
@Valicore Considered by who. Please if this is factual data show some numbers %??? People consider themselves in California a different country. Millions of people speak Spanish, when you arrive at an airport in the Midwest they look totally white by contrast. So different language, different race, different church, different cultures, more liberal, governator, gay SFO. Definitively California is much more of an independent nation/country than Cataluña is.
@xockes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia
@rj7855 so?? how many links do you need? Would a map from the CIA work for you? Look for the Cataluña nation in the map?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sp.html
Freedom for Humbold County. Freadom to smoke and munchies and funny talk when high. Independence for Humbold County.
Freedom for Humboldya YA!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_County,_California
@xockes
Most Catalans would disagree with you (as do I). Especially these folk: http://www.esquerra.cat/ (Catalonia even has its own top-level-domain suffix The government's website is www.gencat.cat.)
I think what you need to realize is that Spain is composed of "Autonomous Communities". Some, such as Catalonia and the Basque Country are very very different from the rest.
Language is the most apparent difference; Catalan is completely distinct from Spanish (Castilian), not a dialect. Your argument about California doesn't really hold water. It doesn't have 1000 years of history as a political entity. Sure, it's a state with unique character, but moving there from anywhere else in the US doesn't present a big problem. The same cannot be said of Catalonia. I've lived in Spain, speak the language fluently, and generally feel quite at home there. Moving to Barcelona was an eye-opening experience - I very much felt like an outsider because I didn't speak the language (though I eventually learned). Catalonia, while an autonomous region of Spain, has its own political parties, distinct from the primary players on the national state. Spain has a national police forces, however in Catalonia they have their own, the Mossos d'Esquadra.
Catalonia always has been distinct, even after it became part of the Kingdom of Aragon, and then united with Crown of Castile under Ferdinand and Isabella. It wasn't until the Catalans chose poorly during the War of Spanish Succession that they lost a lot of their independence with the "Nueva Planta" decrees.. The Catalans have a solemn national holiday, "la diada", to mark the fall of Barcelona to Phillip V's forces on September 11th 1714.
@BearCobra Definitely did not mean to spark a debate about the history of Spanish culture but I've got to say its pretty sweet to see how many different kinds of people read Engadget and that they can respond with insightful information.
OMG catalan word in engadget, uh that's touching ;_D
Nice coverage, thanks!
No Group picture ??? like the CES 1 ??
Really awesome news from the show.
Great coverage guys!
But I'm sad....WHERE IS MY DELL MINI 5 ;_;
Thanks for the nice coverage!
Spain is España. But because us keyboards dont have the ñ the wrote espanya. Please dont make a political argument over that.
@Look4Wally Quite the contrary, I wrote it in Catalan, not Spanish!
@Look4Wally
bet you feel pretty silly now. you... wally.
@smazms I dont. I was just trying to ease the conversation, and many people outside Spain write España as Espanya because of the keyboard thing I mentioned before...There was no need for that comment imo.
@Look4Wally well you clearly got the tone of my reply completely wrong. lighten up?
@smazms Clearly didn't have a good day. Couldnt catch the tone on your comment. I apologize.
Other than the Windows Phone 7 announcement, this MWC was a let down..... no new Q4 2010 phone announcements... no Tegra 2 smartphones shown... and whatever happened to the Huawei Android phone? (The "mystery wrapped in an enigma"?)
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/huaweis-android-touchphone-is-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/
Bring on some CeBit action now!
@anexanhume We'll be there!
Adiós.
Good job covering it guys
Where's the Engadget jet?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/20/bye-bye-barcelona-and-mobile-world-congress-2009/
Will miss the WMC 2010 till next year. I'm just piss off no one offer a good ANDROID PHONE, for AT&T just plain wrong.
Sadly, no Supersonic (the one and ONLY thing I was looking towards)
O well, but It was an awesome coverage guys. Thanks!
@Nicknin10do
totally hear ya!
waited on the edge of my seat for 2 months for SUPERSONIC news but no......nothing :(
really want to get a big screen mobile by june too, what will it be now?!?!?
Weakest showing of a major manufacturer? Motorola. And speaking of those guys.. I can't help but wonder... will they slip back in to the same apathy of releasing product sporadically, with major revisions occurring only every 2-3 years. These just aren't the life cycles of the present market.. let see if they got the memo.
PS Engadget.. in the future.. please have a schedule for these events and a dedicated page.
Good coverage, maybe could have done a few more interviews with some products/companies that I saw on other blog sites, but probably the best coverage overall. I didn't see much news about new apps anywhere, maybe there are some good ones soon to be released?
I guess for me the disappointment was: Windows Phone Series 7 will only be released at the end of the year, no smartphone with an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip (now they claim middle of the year), no 720p video recording on HTC Desire (Bravo), no HTC Supersonic, no Nexus Two yet, no high end LG Android phones, no definite release date of flash 10.1 and no Nokia N87.
Good things were: The Samsung Beam and Wave (awesome Super Amoled screens), HTC Desire, Motorola Motoroi, the MEEGO os joining Moblin and Maemo, HP Compaq Airlife 100 & Opera Mini demoed on iPhone.