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Internet 'Driving Force' Behind New Mobiles

17th February 2009

By Niall Murphy

The annual mobile industry confab in Barcelona - the Mobile World Congress - portrayed a curious picture of a mobile industry in paradox.

While the world's economy stumbles and investors demand mobile operators cut back investment in new networks and next generation network technologies, the massive growth of the mobile internet is keeping a smile on everyone's face.

So while the usually excessive marketing budgets lavished on this Barcelona event were noticeably curtailed and there was no longer a need to fight one's way through the crowd to get to the doughnut stand, the industry came through with an exciting wave of defining announcements, and of course cool new devices.

The emphasis of the internet as the driving force for devices and services in mobile was hard to miss.

Microsoft and Nokia both announced application stores that will be available on handsets later this year, allowing people to buy content, games and applications.

Read the full article on Sky News here