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this is pocket now recap no it's not it's roundup mobile world congress 2013 if you're seeing this message you survived an epic week of tech news from one of the biggest trade shows in the world and i'm here to bring you our take on it in five minutes or less i'm michael fisher here with a recap of the editorial and feature content from the dot-com side of the house this is pocket now roundup love them or hate them it's samsung that customarily makes the big splash at events like these and well the lover hate question is being heatedly debated in the comments of my editorial on the galaxy s5 in it i make the point that the s5 is being unfairly criticized for being iterative even though it's a bigger jump over the s4 then the s4 was over the s3 fortunately for those who disagree taylor martin is quick to respond with a counterpoint stating that the s5 is indeed just more of the same from samsung while Adam doubt also takes the opportunity to chime in with the question of whether or not waterproofing is indeed a gimmick check out all three of those pieces and then sound off in the comments below that wasn't all Samsung brought to the party though as expected the company debuted two successors to its galaxy gear smartwatch but in a twist it followed those up with a third option the new gear fit once again it's me offering an opinion on the fit and its relationship to Samsung's wearable strategy which will elaborate on in the coming weeks as we secure demo units and try the fit out for ourselves fighting for spotlight space alongside Samsung this week in our editorial space HTC and LG each of whom brought new devices to mwc this year Joe Levi weighs in with his take on the new mid-range HTC Desire calling it a device that for the first time lives up to its name while Taylor Martin says that LG's g2 mini is neither g2 nor particularly mini this irks him he thinks the g2 mini is more properly situated in LG's F line of mid Rangers and he's got a pretty good argument as to by switching gears to nokia the company brought not a windows phone to mwc but three android phones all variations on the much-talked-about nokia normandy or x they're all stamped with Nokia's brand and they're all running a version of Google's OS but Joe Levi says these are not real android phones do you agree with our android guy or are you already lining up at your local unlocked phone dealer to snap up an ex of your own well if you're in the letter group don't forget to keep a finger on the pulse of Nokia's soon to be owner microsoft while you're waiting in that line as usual the company is well represented in our editorial features with taylor martin posting his full review of the Lumia icon Adam doubt speculating on the future of the Lumia family under Microsoft yours truly waxing nostalgic about the Lumia 1520 and Adam Lane making a great case for why the forthcoming Action Center in Windows Phone 8.1 is wrong all wrong as far as other OEMs at MW seem like Sony our Barcelona team was a little too busy going hands-on with devices like the Xperia tablet Z and Xperia z2 to pan any editorials there fortunately though we covered those and many more products from ZTE Huawei and others on the pocket now weekly podcast where you can tune in to hear Anton and I may fill us in on their first person experiences with those OEMs and you'll also get a taste of what it's like for an outfit like pocket now to cover a big trade show like this one it involves chasing taxis on foot and blowing up surge suppressors and exotic beverages like palinka and rounding out the business on the dot-coms out of the house where joe levi and taylor martin if your smartphone's got a big appetite for power and you're not sure which battery pack to invest in joe might have found the perfect solution check out his zag spark 6000 review and then see why Taylor thinks wireless calling should be standard on modern smartphones of course there's much more news from Barcelona we barely scratched the surface with this roundup and you can find it all at pocketnow.com all the links to the stories mentioned in this round up are in the description below folks and so is a like button please click it if you enjoyed this roundup and please do make sure once again to tune into the pocket now weekly podcast this week and the pocket now daily when it hopefully returns next week from Romania not Honduras this time leave a comment down below if you have some feedback on mwc be sure to visit pocket now at its forums everywhere on social media as well Instagram Google+ Facebook and so on most importantly thank you for watching and have a wonderful weekend no matter what mobile device you carry