Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 Photo Gallery

PCMag is at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, bringing you photos of all the hot new phones and technologies. Check the gallery throughout the week for a glimpse of the best stuff we're seeing at MWC.

The MWC draws crowds from more than 200 countries, attracting upwards of 60,000 visitors. The show currently takes place in Barcelona, Spain, and will continue to through 2018.

Qualcomm's booth being set up in anticipation of the show.

Samsung's booth, before all the MWC craziness kicks in.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is a cross between Samsung's 10-inch tablet and its stylus-packing "phablet" the Galaxy Note.

The Samsung Galaxy Beam is Samsung's new projector-phone. But can it triumph where other projector-phones failed?

Bert Nordberg, president of Sony Mobile Communications, shows off the Xperia NXT, which includes the new Xperia P and Xperia U smartphones.

Sony expanded its Xperia smartphone lineup with the addition of the Xperia P and Xperia U devices.

The LG Optimus L5 is an entry-level Android phone from LG that focuses on a body design that sets it apart.

LG's Optimus L7 hits what looks like the sweet spot for a U.S.-based, entry-level Android phone, with a 1Ghz processor and 800-by-480 screen.

The LG Optimus 3D MAX tweaks AT&T's Thrill 4G with a faster processor, thinner body and some new software.

The LG Optimus 4X HD is a gorgeous quad-core phone with a full HD screen. It's fast and beautiful, but for some reason it lacks 4G LTE.

The ridiculously large LG Optimus Vu runs Android 4.0; LG recommends it for reading comics, magazines, newspapers and office documents.

The HTC One S for T-Mobile has a 4.3-inch, 960-by-540 Super AMOLED screen.

The HTC One X has a whopping 4.7-inch Super LCD 2 screen. It’s gorgeous, but huge.

The HTC One V, coming to Virgin, MetroPCS, and U.S. Cellular, has a "chin" at the bottom.

The Nokia Lumia 610 is the first Windows Phone to run on the lower-cost Qualcomm 7x27 chipset. That makes it a little sluggish, though.

The Nokia Asha 202 is Nokia's entry-level Asha model, with a resistive—and very fiddly—touch screen.

The Nokia Asha 302 is an affordable QWERTY feature phone which supports Microsoft Exchange e-mail.

The Nokia PureView 808 is a new Symbian powered smartphone with a 41 megapixel camera.

The Huawei Ascend D Quad is Huawei’s new quad-core, Android 4.0 smartphone.

The dual-core Ascend D1 is a lot like the D Quad, but with a dual-core rather than a quad-core processor. It may be coming to T-Mobile.

Acer plans to reveal the Liquid Glow at MWC. It's a smartphone targeted towards young people that runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

Microsoft is expected to unveil a consumer preview of Windows 8 at MWC, though details remain scarce. Check back for a full report on February 29.

Panasonic's waterproof Eluga is a slim, beautiful phone, but it has a truly awful name.

NTT DoCoMo showed off several cool technologies at its booth. The neatest, for U.S. consumers, was a special cradle which can charge in 10 minutes and then recharge your phone's battery at leisure.

Nvidia showed several new exclusive games at MWC, including a version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 which will only run on Nvidia Tegra tablets and phones.

These stilt walkers were advertising a networking event at MWC.

MWC is held in a major tourist attraction, and the fountain behind this stilt walker regularly erupts with huge water and light shows.

After hours at MWC, nice ladies roam around with beer backpacks, dispensing freely. That's part of what makes this the best trade show ever.

This black horse is Huawei's symbol for the show—perhaps implying that the Chinese manufacturer is the "dark horse" of the quad-core phone crowd.

The ZTE PF112's home screen shows off the Tegra 3’s graphics chops; you can swipe to smoothly rotate those mushrooms

Bow to the Android. The Android welcomes you, with a free slide down from the second story of the Google booth. Just like at a carnival, you can collect a photo of you looking silly as you go down the slide, at the end.

One of the showpieces of the booth is an industrial robot who was slowly bedazzling cases for Galaxy Nexus phones. The wait list for a custom case was long enough that the robot will be working through the night, a Google rep said. And yes, the robot runs Android.

Back for the second year, the rolling conveyor belt holds an endless march of Android phones, while text on the wall behind it chronicles the rise of Android since 2008. The conveyor belt even includes some more obscure Android phones, models which were only released in China or Japan.

The Samsung Galaxy Beam is Samsung's new projector-phone. The projector on top of the phone runs for about three hours on a full charge.

The Sony Xperia P is a handsome, well-designed new Android phone with a stunning "White Magic" screen.

Here's the Xperia P's White Magic screen in action, at right. Compared to the Xperia U at left, White Magic's extra white subpixel makes images really pop.

The Xperia U's LED band can change color to match the phone's theme or a picture being shown in the gallery.

The Toshiba AT270 tablet is a deliciously slim 7.7-inch tablet coming out later this year. It's just about as thick as its headphone jack.

The Tegra 3 game Zen Pinball looked and played great on the AT270, and the 7-inch size made the tablet easy to hold.

In Google's booth at Mobile World Congress, there's a bowl of jelly beans. Make of that what you will.

No, there is no cosplay at Mobile World Congress. Batwoman is selling something, although I'm not sure what. She was accompanied by Batman, but he vanished into the shadows before I could take his picture.

This barista was mixing up smoothies at the Google booth at Mobile World Congress.

Google was handing out actual ice cream sandwiches at its booth, to celebrate Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. They were tasty, for trade show fare.

By the Google meeting rooms there were Android statues dressed up to represent various Google services. This guy here is Google Books.

Fortunately, there was no rain at this year's MWC, which greatly pleased these bee girls. If you're between 35 and 45 you might get that joke.

No idea what this monster was selling, but it gave me a high-five as I walked past. I think it might have been phone cases.

CBOSS might be the trashiest company at MWC. I've never figured out what the company does, but it stacks its booth with leggy models in odd costumes. This year, the company was running a quiz where the prize was to have an expensive dinner with its models. Everyone involved is Russian.

One of the strangest gadgets at this show, the Novero Solana starts out as a netbook, but swivels into becoming an Android tablet.

A huge new factory will make Qualcomm's color e-ink-like displays much more widely available, and possibly less expensive.

Browser maker Mozilla is at Mobile World Congress to show off the progress made on its Boot to Gecko project, which is looking to create a "complete, standalone operating system for the open Web." Here, a Mozilla exec shows what B2G might look like on the average smartphone.

Call it the Galaxy Not. The Umeox Xland has a 5.3-inch screen like Samsung’s phablet, but it’s made from cheaper stuff.

The Telstar S7350, according to the company, uses the same Retina Display as the Apple iPhone 4 does. I say, maybe.

The Chinese vendors in the back of Mobile World Congress’s Hall 2 had many unusual looking phones, including this credit-card-like model.