Mobile World Congress 2012: A Gallery of Delights

The Porsche Carrera S on the RIM stand was a major draw. A free one with every PlayBook would have helped sales.

A demo box of Siklu’s LTE backhaul microwave design with a unique 71-76 GHz frequency.

Israel had a large presence at the show with innovative LTE tech coming from Saguna and Siklu.

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google. “Technology is making sci-fi real”, he said.

The queue for the keynote from Google chairman Eric Schmidt was extensive but worth the wait.

I wonder what Deutsche Telekom’s Rene Obermann really thinks about the dump pipe question?

Ben Verwaayen, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent

Cisco’s CEO John Chambers in full flow – “innovate quickly, or die!”

Fujitsu’s new tablets are waterproof. Or this girl has ruined a pefectly good device.

Windows 7 running via Wyse Pocket Cloud remote access on a iPad. Yes, it looks kinda weird.

Panasonic has recently entered the smartphone race with the attractive Android powered Eluaga.

The Nokia 900 will features LTE support for US markets.

The Nokia Beam features a built-in DLP projector!

The Samsung Galaxy Note is the largest LTE smartphone on the market.

My hands are NOT remarkably small – the Samsung Galaxy Note is a just a very large smartphone

The remarkable 41MP Nokia PureView has a larger sensor than that of most smartphones.

A close up of the lens from the remarkable Nokia 41MP PureView

The impressive HTC One X (left) and the HTC One S with Super LCD and AMOLED displays respectively.

MWC: It’s like a small town of its own.

The Mobile World Congress 2012 is held at the Fira, Barcelona.