The Mobile World Congress, an annual event held at Barcelona, Spain, has always been a popular platform for gadget vendors to show off their ware. Nokia has also been an active participant in the event. However, the mobile phone maker will not be displaying any of their products in the MWC 2010, according to a report in ITProPortal.

In MWC 2009, Nokia had unveiled some of the best selling mobile handsets, some of them being Nokia E75, Nokia 5630 XpressMusic and Nokia N86.

An internal source revealed that the Finnish phone manufacturer is choosing to concentrate on seminars, customer/media activities and programmes of the like, rather than having a booth to display their gadgets.

Also, Nokia is reportedly planning to direct the finances set aside for the MWC, toward marketing of their products.

May be Nokia will not be their usual active self in the Mobile World Congress 2010, but, they have definitely caught the attention of people in their recent event - the Nokia World, 2009. The company brought before the world, interest capturing mobile phones like Nokia X6, Nokia X3 and Nokia N97 Mini, during this event.

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