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BARCELONA, SPAIN — The Mobile World Congress trade show is the yearly coming-out party for many of the phone industry's marquee devices. Manufacturers from around the globe descend upon the Fira Gran Via here to hawk their new wares, showing off flagship phablets, mass-market handsets and low-end contenders. And while it's primarily been an Android party for the last few years, the software landscape is changing. Last year, Mozilla made headlines with the first Firefox OS devices, and this year Ubuntu, Sailfish and even Tizen and CyanogenMod have arrived with their own smartphone OSes. Differentiation is just as jarring on the hardware side. We saw many new ideas in consumer handsets, like rotating cameras, double displays, and biometric scanners. And of course, wearables are everywhere. Samsung debuted three new wrist-worn devices, with Sony and Huawei showing off their own as well. Besides smartphones, wearable computers made up the most consistent category here. Have a look at our photo gallery to see what the future of mobile computing will look like — at least for the next year.
