After MWC, CeBIT is always a let-down in terms of mobile phones, and noone from AAS has been attending. However, lest you feel like you're missing out, Norman John from SymbianWorld (this being his 'home' event) has produced an illustrated report.
Read on in the full article.
Interesting article, pretty downbeat ending:
The CeBIT isn�t the event it was ages ago. The manifactures don�t care about the CeBIT and rather show ther products at the MWC.
...why did CeBIT become such a low priority for phone makers? Surely they'd want to reach out to consumers too?
CeBIT has not traditionally been a consumer event, but the core has been business to business and making deals.
CeBIT consists of about 25 large halls. Most of them are still government, enterprise and infrastructure level business staff.
That's why there've been hundreds or even thousands of small Asian (Chinese, S.Korean and Taiwanese) companies showing their products not yet released in the western world or anywhere.
CeBIT is also problematic as a media event because you have to compete with so many companies, everything's happening at the same time and it just becomes a mess to try arrange interviews with journalists and other meetings.