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Why Do Barcelona’s Thieves Love Mobile Phones So Much? #mwc12 #mwc2012

February 26, 2012
Foto: Iglesia Pilarin

There’s money in them there mobiles: For manufacturers, for network providers, for content providers, and for the thieves who snatch the handsets and sell them on. Today’s cellphones, unlike the bricks of old, are typically worth a lot on the black market – moreso the types of phones carried by Mobile World Congress delegates...

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Mobile World Congress Special: Incidents of Mobile Device Theft in Barcelona, Documented on Flickr #mwc2012 #mwc12

February 23, 2012
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A Mobile World Congress special. Ten photos found on Flickr taken by people or of people who had mobile equipment stolen or attempted stolen in Barcelona. Captions underneath each of the photos below are written by the victim or the photographer. Above photo by Rene Passet, here.   Above photo by Larry Cornett, here.   Above...

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