MWC 2015 roundup: Strap on a wearble and cover your face in sickly VR goo

Yes, it's time for our Mobile World Congress 2015 linkfest! Here's The Register's full coverage of what was hot and plain old rot in Barcelona this year.


Phabba-dabba-do: Samsung hypes up Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge – A built-in battery? Is your name Apple?


HTC One M9 hands on: Like a smart M8 in a sharp suit – If it ain't broke, just polish it gently


Virtual reality WHIPLASH CHAIR in shutdown scare – Organisers ban any errant electric sitting


Huawei to build 5G patent book – 100 BEELLION royalty payments can't be wrong


Out of time: Huawei, LG unveil watches nobody wants to buy – Can I borrow your charger?


Telefonica seals deal with HP's 'carrier grade' OpenStack phone cloud – Semi-recycled release still 'biggest ever' rollout, we're told


Samsung-Microsoft deal will bundle Office 365 with Android Knox – Love-in will bring Office to corporate mobes


Saygus aims buffed up V2 Android mobe at Samsung – Shows Koreans where to stick the memory


Juniper, Amdocs show off vCPE – Router, firewall and orchestrator playing nice


Pebble Time Steel ready in May. Plus: Now you can strap on sensors, GPS ... Geiger counter – Cunning smartwatch bloat fix? An expansion slot


BlackBerry gets flirty with QWERTY IP, launches $275 Leap – Everything is up for licensing, too


Ford to save you from BIKE FITNESS HORROR – No more uphill ... literally


Europe's digital chief wants China's help on standardising 5G – Oetti: Will need rest of world's cooperation too, though


Nokia boss smashes net neutrality activists – Slow lanes for all means the ambulance waits too


SanDisk launches 200GB microSD card – Little big memory has impressive crown jewels


Cisco offers carriers adware-as-a-service for fun and profit – Telcos looking for 'value partnerships' can buy a platform from The Borg


Ericsson, Telstra and Qualcomm up the ante with 600Mbps demo – Meanwhile, EE scores with 400Mbps at Wembley


Just want a simple, low-power GPU for your smart-gumble? Try using your Imagination – Brains of your second wristputer


Chasing pennies, Sony, Microsoft and smartphone biz rivals retreat to mid-range – There's nowhere else to go


Jolla launches Sailfish 2.0, now with added security – Tablet coming later this year, but will it be competitive?


Microsoft opens kimono on Windows 10 Universal App Platform – One app to rule them all. It hopes


3 spectastic Lumias for price of 1 rival flagship: Microsoft sells biz on cheapie experience – We've missed you, Stephen Elop


Have it all: BlackBerry to port crown jewels to iPhone, Android – We’re still going to make hardware, insists CEO


Google dips toe into U.S. mobile market with 'small scale' offering – Pichai unveils cautious MVNO plans


Silent Circle revamps secure smartphone – Blacker is the new black


Network vendors need something far more real than ‘5G’ – The all-IP, gigabit dream is within reach ... just buy our kit


Ikea to start making electrified furniture. What could possibly go wrong? – It's even mulling apps for tables and chairs


VMware makes NFV telco play by snuggling up to OpenStack – If it can be virtualised, Virtzilla wants it


HDS makes its move beyond storage with telco data analyser – Code from Tokyo Stock Exchange used for real time network monitoring


Citrix targets carriers with NetScaler – Virtualising the mobile network for the NFV world


BOOM! MediaTek parks tanks on Qualcomm's lawn – Boasts big HTC win, and streaming tech


Acer enters Windows Phone fray with cheap Liquid M220 mobe – Runs better than Android on same hardware, vendor claims


In Barcelona, no one can hear you scream ... HTC, Valve unleash Giger-inspired VR headgear – It doesn't look weird at all. No, really



Proof that Microsoft can't count: the Windows 10 T-shirt #mwc15 :-) pic.twitter.com/wiVGyj2utS


— Tim Anderson (@timanderson) March 4, 2015

Until next year, then ... assuming, that is, you don't bump into too many walls/trees/telephone boxes in the meantime, given the number of wearables, VR gizmos and mobes that MWC insists you'll be staring at come 2016. ®


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