My MWC 2015 thoughts so far

Below is just a short email I sent round Somo this morning with my thoughts on the conference so far. All about the knowledge sharing :-)


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Thought I would send round a quick update from MWC with my thoughts on what I have seen so far.

Overall there are 3 things that have jumped out at me.

FIRST
Manufacturers realise you won't wear a wearable unless it looks nice, duh...
With LG, Huawei and the other manufacturers making their wearables beautiful. Using premium materials to create smartwatches that are more akin to the classic wristwatch. Now its not about the Geeks anymore its about real people who don't want to look like a character from the IT crowd.

SECOND
Developing countries need cheaper smartphones
Mozilla showed off a $22 smartphone! That is off contract and about to be sold in India. Dont forget for some developing countries their first computer and how they will access the internet will not be from a laptop or desktop but from a phone and it won't be a iPhone 6+. Loads of manufactories were getting in on the action with Motorola and Microsoft showing how they are going to try and grab market share.

THIRD
Where is the connected home?
Seems that the connected home took a massive back seat this year compared to last year with Qualcomm getting rid of their connected home experience and replacing it with a premium sound area which seemed like a bit of a waste. In my opinion they all realise that the market is still early on with smart individual devices but with nothing really tying it all together unless you want to buy a Samsung house and have one manufacturer around your whole home.

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