Mobile World Congress - Barcelona 2009

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Most HTC devices are gorgeous, but this 1 is butt ugly

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Day 2 - Surprising - Roundup by Engadget

If day one of MWC was dominated by Windows Mobile, day two went to Android -- although most of the announcements were vague and Toshiba's Snapdragon-based TG01 did much to impress. Obviously the big announcement was the HTC Magic (née the G2), which'll be coming to Vodafone UK in April, but several other manufacturers committed to building Googlephones as well. What else did we learn?

We went hands-on with the Magic and Android's Cupcake update and found it to be pretty great, although the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack and US 3G bands didn't exactly pull at our heartstrings.
The Toshiba TG01 got our blood racing, though -- the stripes interface is actually super-slick on the huge screen, and Snapdragon's fast as hell.
ATT Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said Dell's building a smartphone. Then he took it back.
We got to play with a few Tegra prototypes, one of which was running Android and the other doing 1080p video. It was all very impressive, but we didn't see any working phones with the chipset, and that's the only way into our jaded hearts.
The GSM Association decided to standardize on microUSB chargers and set a target date of 2012 for it to happen. They could have been 90% there if they'd just gone with miniUSB. Sigh.
Samsung will be building "more than three" Android phones in 2009, as well as a LiMo Foundation Linux phone. Of course, this is also what Sammy said last year at MWC, and with no hardware to show, it's just vapor for now.
Acer wrote us a secret Android love note with a promise of two phones this year. We checked "maybe" when they asked us if we liked them.
We also checked out Acer's boring Tempo WinMo 6.1 phones that look like they're running Microsoft Bob and its maybe not-so-boring other phones that weren't powered on.
LG promised an Android set by June (we're guessing the KS360) with at least two more by the end of the year. We also learned that Orange customers will be the first unfortunate lucky enough to buy the G910 Watch Phone and spent some time with the S60-based KT770.
We got to play with the OmniaHD's 720p video camera. There were some framerate issues, but if they get sorted out by launch like we hope this thing'll be a beast.
We also spent some time with the other big S60 launch at MWC, the Nokia N86 -- it has an amazing OLED screen and solid camera, but the form factor is wearing thin, and that T9 keypad just isn't enough.
Everyone's getting in on the WinMo skinning game, including Gigabyte, whose Smart Zone interface on the S1200 wasn't half-bad.
Hyundai decided that the next step in phone form factors are the watch, the pocket calculator, and the 4G iPod. Note to Apple fanboys: aren't you happy all those mockups were just that?

Yep, those are the bigs -- check out our full MWC 2009 coverage for all everything else that went down. Overall, today seemed to be distinctly more Android-focused, but we're dismayed at the lack of actual devices shown running Google's OS -- mostly we just got a lot of nonspecific promises. We'll see if we can squeeze some dates and specs from people tomorrow, keep it locked!

I'll update Day 3 when I get back

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Apparently Vodafone's Android phone IS NOT the G2.

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I rerli cant wait for the 01 phone! In someones sig :p lol

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The new Android Phone's official name is the HTC Magic, but unofficially it's still known as the G2

That's not how it looks anymore, it has changed, it now looks like this :

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OMG! I AM BUYING THAT

the hell with the iPhone! That looks great! When is that android out? I'm buying it how much is it?

[Recursion]

The new Android Phone's official name is the HTC Magic, but unofficially it's still known as the G2

That's not how it looks anymore, it has changed, it now looks like this :

The OS that phone is showing is 100% not android, and it is NOT being released or called the G2 anywhere, anywhere saying it is the G2 is WRONG. It IS the HTC Magic, and thats it, NOT the G2... comprendé? LOL

Those pictures aren't the HTC Magic either...

[The Professor]

The OS that phone is showing is 100% not android, and it is NOT being released or called the G2 anywhere, anywhere saying it is the G2 is WRONG. It IS the HTC Magic, and thats it, NOT the G2... comprendé? LOL

Those pictures aren't the HTC Magic either...

Yeah he's talking about the phone in his sig.

Whatever it is its gorgeoussss.

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Mobile World Congress has officially finished

And the handsets launched, some were amazing, some not. But still we get that every year from MWC.

We've had a few leaks and mess-ups, mostly from Google when they were showing off the new G-Mail feature on Android and iPhone, they showed what looked to be a new HTC device different to the G1 and the Magic, could it be the G2?

Telstra executive got his phone stolen, which had Windows Mobile 6.5, so who ever has the phone now has the latest Windows Mobile Software.

2 New projector phones have been released.

To round-up the whole of MWC the guys at Engadget have compiled it into a short Podcast which can be listened to here

So what mobiles were launched? Well these :
Sony Ericsson
- Sony Ericsson Idou 12.1-megapixel phone launches (see news and video here)
- Sony Ericsson W995 8-megapixel phone launches (see news and hands-on photos here)
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 updated with new panels (see news here)

Samsung
- Samsung OmniaHD 720p HD phone launches (see news and hands-on photos here)
- Samsung M7600 Beat DJ phone launches (see news, hands-on photos and video here)
- Samsung launches Blue Earth solar-powered phone (see news here)
- Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition handset announced (see news here)
- Samsung shows off the Show i7410 projector phone (see news here)

Nokia
- Nokia E55 smartphone, world's slimmest (see news and hands-on photos here)
- Nokia E75 smartphone, slide-out QWERTY (see news and hands-on photos here)
- Nokia 6710 Navigator, with GPS technology (see news and hands-on photos here)
- Nokia 6720 Classic candybar phone, 5MP cam (see news and hands-on photos here)
- Nokia announces Ovi store will launch in May with downloadable apps (see news here)
- Nokia launches 8-megapixel N86 mobile (see news and hands-on photos here)
- Nokia teams up with Skype to offer free calls (see news here)

HTC
- HTC announces Touch Diamond2 smartphone (see news and hands-on photos here)
- HTC's Touch Pro2 launches with slide-out QWERTY keypad (see news here)
- HTC Magic is Android-powered (see news, hands-on pics and video here)

LG
- LG's KS360 mobile to be updated with Android platform this summer (see news here)
- LG's GD900 is the world's first transparent mobile phone (see news here)
- LG announces Arena KM900 mobile (see news and hands-on photos here)
- LG Touch watch phone to debut on Orange (see news and hands-on photos here)

Garmin-ASUS
- Garmin-ASUS announces Nuvifone M20 smartphone (see news here)
- Garmin-ASUS announces Nuvifone G60 smartphone (see news here)

Motorola
- Motorola shows off diamond-encrusted AURA mobile (see news here)

Microsoft
- Windows Mobile 6.5 announced, along with My Phone service (see news here)

BlackBerry
- BlackBerry and Lenovo partner with Constant Connect (see news here)

Tattu
- Tattu TS500 twin SIM card mobile phone announced (see news here)

Acer
- Acer has released three Tempo smartphones (see news here)

Vodafone
- Vodafone's announced three 3G-connected mobiles (see news here)

02
- 02 announces Litmus app review service (see news here)

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The new Android Phone's official name is the HTC Magic, but unofficially it's still known as the G2

That's not how it looks anymore, it has changed, it now looks like this :

It looks like one of the trays that you get frozen microwave curries in?

That's one ***** phone.

My iPhone 3G any day, any time.