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masabi developer team invades mobile world congress<\/h2>\n

It’s always nice to get out of the office from time to time, and what better way to do it than by going to Barcelona! Masabi’s development team flew out to Barcelona in February to attend Mobile World Congress 2012. The visit was designed to offer the Masabi developers the opportunity to meet people from all over the world working in mobile, see how the commercial side of the mobile industry operates, and attend developer meetings to see what’s on the horizon for handsets and apps, and this is how we got on…<\/p>\n

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arriving in barcelona<\/h3>\n

We flew out to Barcelona on Monday afternoon and arrived safely at our hotel in time for a delicious meal at Sinatra’s near Las Ramblas, during which we discussed what our ideal handset would be like. Unfortunately, we could not make the show in time to watch our CEO, Ben Whitaker, take to the main stage to talk on how mobiles apps are changing the world, speaking in a panel alongside representatives from the FT, Telef\u00f3nica, Tripadvisor, Qualcomm and others. Ben also made it into the Show Daily on the Wednesday of the event. Click here and turn to p.14 to view the article online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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inside the show<\/h3>\n

The next day, we set out for the Congress, navigating our way across the city on the metro. Unsurprisingly, the show this year was bigger than ever, with around 60,000 attendees from over 200 countries, and all of the best-known mobile brands were drawing crowds onto their vibrant exhibition stands. Although, Apple was notable in its absence.<\/p>\n

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As tradition dictates, Tuesday is the busiest day of the event, with plenty of keynotes, seminars and developer conferences to occupy the masses. After a bit of queuing (which we sadly could not bust with our mTicketing apps!), the team was granted entry to the BlackBerry developer conference, where we learned about all the great new features planned for BB10 and the new Playbooks. We were especially intrigued by the variety of runtimes that will be supported on the upcoming BB10, making it an incredibly versatile development platform. As well as featuring the existing Java and native BB10 runtimes, BlackBerry’s new platform will include HTML5 support and a runtime for Android apps!<\/p>\n

To top off a great talk from BlackBerry, we were all given a free Playbook!<\/p>\n

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In the afternoon, a handful of us managed to get into the Samsung developer conference. They had a big presentation on the variety of things you can do with the stylus, a gadget they have brought back into fashion with the Galaxy Note, but what we really found impressive was the great looks and almost Android-like graphics displayed by their new range of Bada handsets.<\/p>\n

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amazing mobile technology<\/h3>\n

Later on in the day, we had a wander around the Fira to check out some of the technology on show from the big names in mobile. Here’s a rundown of the main things:<\/p>\n