Barcelona, February 28 (EFE) .- Barcelona is ready to welcome a new edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC, its acronym in English), in which the presentations of new terminals share the spotlight with two booming sectors. that of wearable devices and the Internet called things
Although Congress officially start next March 2 Some manufacturers and operators already tomorrow unveil its major developments in the Mobile, the biggest event in the world dedicated to mobile technologies, which open on Monday, King Philip VI.
For example, the Korean company Samsung will release its highly anticipated Galaxy S6 and most likely his new smart watch, while China will present its flagship HTC HTC One M9 ‘Hima’, also with its first wearable.
The Chinese giant Huawei which has also called morning to reporters, not present in this edition no phone, but it plans to show its first intelligent clock as well as a new generation of tablets.
Over the next days will also be present in the room other manufacturers like LG (KSE: 003550.KS – news), Lenovo, Nokia (Swiss: NOK1V.SW – News), BlackBerry or Sony (Hanover: SON1.HA – news), which true to the Barcelona event could present the fourth generation of his ‘smartphone’ flag, the Xperia Z4.
But faced with a shortage of major innovations in the field of terminals, called ‘wearables’ take a greater role at MWC, where you can view clocks with new features and more sophisticated, far from the appearance of rubber bracelets early version that appeared on the market.
The Internet of things, as it is called technology that allows digital interconnection between the Internet and everyday objects will be another trend that will mark this edition of Mobile, where companies like Ford car or operator Vodafone displayed applications Internet connectivity can have in such fields as mobility, industry or home.
According to analysts, in 2023 there will be over 26,000 million mobile devices connected to the Internet.
Manufacturers of software, processors, application developers operators and a total of 2,000 companies linked to the tech world this year will participate as exhibitors at MWC, of which over 167 are Spanish, which represents a 7.7% increase over the previous year (155).
King Philip VI chair the Monday morning the opening of the conference, which runs until March 5 at the fairgrounds of Gran Via, in the municipality of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) and was expected to reach a record 90,000 attendees, over half of whom are senior executives
Among the participants of this edition include the founder and CEO of Facebook (NasdaqGS:. FB – news), Mark Zuckerberg, who repeats as a lecturer for the second year; responsible for Google Android and Chrome (Xetra: A0B7FY – News), Sundar Pichai; Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales; the CEO of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker, or the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the US, Tom Wheeler.
GSMA, the association of leading mobile operators of world and organizes the Mobile World Congress, estimated that the event will leave this 2015 in the Barcelona economy 436 million euros and will create more than 12,500 part-time jobs.
The MWC, which this year a decade in the Catalan capital, it will fill the hotels of Barcelona and shoot room rates that have not been reserved by the organization, which sometimes reach astronomical prices, such as 4,029 euros charged a backpacker hostel by a night, the normal price is 51 euros.
Barcelona Hotels Association has estimated that on Monday and Tuesday, the first two days of the conference, hotel occupancy will be at 100%, and Wednesday and Thursday will be around 90%.
But also shops, restaurants, taxis and sectors such as logistics, private transport, leisure and culture will benefit from the impact of the congress, which has guaranteed its presence Barcelona until 2018, although the Catalan institutions are confident that the event will stay in this city beyond that date.
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