Thanks and good night

An exhausted stand staff and blogger toast the end of a very successful show. Well done everyone. Now please can i sleep?

Green porno

Yes, this is Isabella Rossellini having sex with a fly. Part of a series of short films, written, directed and starring our Bel, and made to promote old mate bobby redford’s Sundance channel. She also plays a depraved bee and a sado-masochistic snail (i kid you not)

Backupower

This is the Philips Xenium, which has a smartcavity(tm)into which you place a normal, or re-chargeable AAA battery. When you charge the phone, you also charge the battery. It does mean your phone has a rather unsightly bulge at one end, but if you’re the kind of person who values productivity over aesthetics, then this is the device for you.

They also do a wide range of stand alone mobile chargers, but unless you’re in the jungle or a desert (where you’ll probably struggle to get a signal anyway) i can’t quite see the point of em. When you live in the global village you’re very rarely that far away from a power socket, and if you don’t have a charger on you, someone else is bound to. Emerging markets you say? Perhaps, but in countries where a pack of triple AAA batteries cost the equivalent of two months wages (Zimbabwe), talking on your phone a bit longer will probably come lower on the list than feeding your children.

Samsung’s got Soul

When they’re not busy making impressive S60 phones the Samsung folks like to throw a big party. And boy, do they know how to do that! Last night some of the Symbian crew including myself had the pleasure of attending their Samsung “Soul party” in the Opium Mar club.

Opium Mar is a huge night club that is located right on one of Barcelona’s beaches (palm trees and all). They were serving some lovely Paella complete with proper, king-sized prawns. There was a also free bar serving anything you asked for.

The entertainment started with some live acts…

…which eventually gave way to a DJ flanked by two percussionists who played a wide variety of music until late into the night. The crowd was always heaving and us Symbianites were up there with the best of ’em dancing away on the stage. Here’s a little panoramic view of the dance floor I recorded on my phone.

We all had a fantastic night there, so a very big 감사합니다 to Samsung!! ^_^

Suite retreat

The sun has sadly abandoned us on this, the last day of the show. The hospitality suite offers a welcome respite from the rain.

Fira Panorama

You’ll probably have to expand this, but here is the Fira Palace taken with Scalado’s stitch camera app, pretty cool.

Spinvox army some more

OK, so I couldn’t resist. Mannetjies vir alles, as they say in Afrikaans.

Spicy

Spice, an Indian network operator, had some interesting and amusing phones on display. First up is a phone designed for visually impaired people. It has no screen, features braille keys and speaks out the numbers as they are pressed. Sadly there’s no text-to-speech to read SMS messages or anything like that. It is very much a pure phone-phone. Still, I think it’s a very nice idea. Well done Spice!

Next up is a gamepad attachment for a phone called the “Game King”. It looks and feels as tacky as the it sounds and kind of reminds me of the PolyStation 3!

They also had some cute freebies at the stand including a very intricate phone pouch. Something for the missus perhaps…

Display of displays

A nice collection of Bluetooth digital picture frames by Parrot.

Power your business…

I guess it’s true what they say about 3G standing for “Games, Gambling & Girls” 😛