MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL
In 2011, Barcelona beat out Milan, Munich, and Paris to become the first Mobile World Capital: a showplace city for mobile technologies, where new mobile solutions are devised to change the way people do things in their day-to-day lives.
The most prominent element of the Mobile World Capital is Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile technology tradeshow. But there are also three other major components, two of which you'll be able to see at the show.
Mobile World Centre
Part museum, part event space, part retail store, the Centre is the public face of mobile technology 365 days a year. It'll be housed on Plaça Catalunya in central Barcelona, and it'll be open in time for MWC 2013.
I haven't gotten to see the exhibits at the Centre, but I'm sure they'll be a thrill for any mobile geek. Head to Catalunya station via Metro lines 1 or 3, or bus H12 direct from the Fira.
Mobile World Hub
Barcelona is transforming itself into a hotbed of mobile development. The "Mobile World Hub" is a combination of industrial incubator services, university programs and even legal frameworks designed to speed up the development of new mobile solutions.
How can you experience the Mobile World Hub? Ask any of the companies exhibiting at the Catalunya Pavilion at the show, many of which will be involved. Many new companies will be housed in 22@, Barcelona's innovation district. Find out more about that neighborhood at www.22barcelona.com; you can visit by taking Metro Line 4 to Llacuna.
The Mobile World Hub idea has already started to pay off for consumers, with Barcelona developing an impressive, useful array of mobile apps. To find them, search for "ajuntament de Barcelona" on your smartphone platform's app store.
Mobile World Festival
We get MWC. The Mobile World Festival is what everyone else gets. Mobile World Festival's focus is Barcelona Mobile Summer Week, a week of entertainment events with mobile technology angles, but other Barcelona events and festivals now have mobile components, including the Sonar and Primavera Sound music festivals, Formula 1, and FC Barcelona.
Here's an example: last year, Mobile World Capital helped add on a "Phonetastic Sitges Mobile Film Festival" to the annual Sitges film festival outside Barcelona, with awards for the best short films produced on mobile phones.
For more on the Mobile World Capital, see www.mobileworldcapital.com.
Source: http://www.pcmag.com by Sascha Segan
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