BARCELONA -- Mobile World Congress 2012 -- This year's Congress has got off to a manic and colorful start, so we brought our regular photographer Siqui Sánchez along to get some snaps.

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All photos by Siqui Sánchez/Getty Images. The captions, though, are not of his doing.

You can get all the news, video interviews and pics from Barcelona during the event at our Mobile World Congress Show Site.

For more pics:

• MWC 2011 Photos: Show Floor Scenes
• MWC 2010: Scenes From Mobile World Congress
• MWC 2009 Photos: Fun, Fones 'n' Fruit
• MWC 2009 Photos: Dial B for Barcelona
• Mobile World Congress Pics, Part II
• Mobile World Congress Pics, Part I

— Ray Le Maistre, International Managing Editor, Light Reading