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Sony Ericsson had rather a successful MWC this year, with the 12 megapixel Idou being very favourably received, and the new Sony Ericsson W995 marking the first of a new range of phones from the company that it’s calling “Entertainment Unlimited”

Entertainment Unlimited phones are the start of a new strategy for Sony Ericsson that will see the launch of the mythical PSP gaming phone in 2009 and will hopefully solve the financial problems the company has been having of late.

After Sony Ericsson successfully stole the limelight at MWC 2009 with its preview of the new Idou 12 megapixel camera phone, LG has announced that it too is working on a similarly megapixelled monster.

Jeremy Newing, LG Mobile’s head of marketing in the UK, promised that LG will indeed be releasing a 12 megapixel camera phone in the not too distant future.

“We’ll very much be releasing a 12 megapixel camera phone…We obviously can’t afford not to be part of the 12MP cameraphone infrastructure, and we will do that and add differentiation, through things like beauty enhancer and smile shot.”

That’s nice to hear – we want our mobiles to continue to evolve – but really, it’s not exactly new is it?! Once one company releases a particular feature, all the others have to jump on board and offer at least a similarly-specced phone.

Unless, of course, you’re Apple, in which case you can just go ahead and do exactly what you want (for the moment at least, anyway)!

[Source: ElectrigPig.co.uk]

I’m sure in 20 years’ time from now, there really will be Androids roaming the vast spaces of MWC, but until then, I’ll stick with news on the mobile variety – Google Android, obviously!

Unfortunately, the only Android announcement of any note at MWC was the new HTC Magic (or the G2, as we thought it would be called) that will come exclusively to Vodafone.

So where have all the other Androids gone? We track the Android news from the major manufacturers at MWC after the jump.

LG has officially annoucned the LG GM730 Eigen smartphone at MWC. The Eigen is a Windows Mobile-based smartphone that has the specs you’d expect from a feature-phone, plus the new S-class interface of the LG Arena. In other words, it looks set to be a top-notch smartphone (even if it does run Windows Mobile!)

The LG Eigen will feature the new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, which itself comes with a brand new UI. However, not for LG the default UI of other Windows Mobile smartphones – they’re going to equip the Eigen with the brand new 3D UI they developed for themselves. First shown on the LG Arena, this is leagues ahead of the TouchWiz UI from Samsung, and only marginally behind the iPhone’s UI.

As such, putting such a powerful UI in a phone with specs like these is tantalizing to say the least!

So what are the specs? They’re just a jump away:

LG have announced several new phones at MWC 2009 as you’d expect, but one that caught my eye was this – the LG GD900. It’s not the most exciting of phones spec-wise, particularly when compared ot the LG Arena, but it does have one trick up its sleeve – a completely see-through keypad.

The LG-GD900 is a fashion phone, so don’t expect anything too special from it, but the transparent keypad should certainly provide a talking point. If you’re into fashion phones, and you like your phones in the buff, you should certainly check out the GD900 when it’s released later this year.

[Source: Slashphone]

One of the more impressive Windows Mobile phones at MWC this year was the HTC Touch Pro2. Sporting the same enhanced TouchFLO user interface as the Touch Diamond2, the Touch Pro2 features a smaller camera (3.2 megapixels, compared to the Diamond2’s 5 megapixels), but a much better keyboard. As you can see from the pics, it features a full QWERTY keyboard that slides open and pivots.

More details and pics of the HTC Touch Pro2 after the jump.

As well as the Android-based HTC Magic announced earlier today, HTC has also been showing off its HTC Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 Windows Mobile machines. These two smartphones aren’t based on Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5, unfortunately, as that’s not due until the summer; instead, they have to make do with Windows Mobile 6.1 with a new user interface overlaid on top.

HTC’s original Touch smartphone was the first to feature this new interface (called TouchFLO), and it was sorely needed, as the default interface that Windows Mobile ships with looks like something from the designers of Windows 95!

The new HTC Touch phones take TouchFLO and run with it, refining it as needed and making it much more repsonisve thanks to some extra horsepower lurking deep within the bowels of the machines.

More details and pics of the HTC Touch Diamond2 after the jump.

Nokia has finally decided to formally announce the Nokia N86, its brand new 8 megapixel camera phone that it inadvertently showed off to the world in Singapore when the rest of the mobile phone world was at MWC 2009 in Barcelona.

Now the full details have been released, we can see that the N86 is, firstly, a cracking camera phone, at least as far as the camera part is concerned; but secondly, not exactly as innovative a device as you’d expect from an N-Series phone.

Full details, pics and vids after the jump.

Day two at MWC 2009 has been a bit quieter. Perhaps the biggest news (and the least unexpected) has been the launch of the HTC Magic, aka the Android G2. As we reported yesterday, the HTC Magic will be available exclusively on Vodafone, and will probably not be going to the US anytime soon, leaving some to wonder if T-Mobile have their sights set on a G3?

The Magic, meanwhile, has been garnering warm praise from bloggers, with Gizmodo describing it as the closest competitor to the iPhone yet.

More details of the HTC Magic after the jump.

Nokia was heavily rumoured to be announcing the 8 megapixel Nokia N86 at MWC 2009. However, in what can only be described as a PR car-crash, they didn’t; instead, they banged on about two comptent but boring messaging phones (the E75 and E55) and two even more boring mid-range phones (the 6710 and 6720).

And that was it – while Samsung was showing off its 8 megapixel Omnia HD that can shoot at 720p HD; while LG was flashing its 8 megapixel Arena, with 120 frames per second video recording and superb new 3D user interface; and while Sony Ericsson were showing off their new 12 megapixel camera phone, Nokia simply left them all to it and watched as the world’s attention went elsewhere.

Seems somebody forgot to tell the assembled marketeers at MWC 2009 about the Nokia N86, a new 8 megapixel camera phone from Nokia that the company itself accidentally leaked via a Carl Zeiss press pack! It gbest worse though…