"18 remarkable facts and 15 amazing phones from MWC 2010"

The crazy mobile phone week that is MWC 2010 has now ended. This year’s MWC 2010 started off with a bang, with Sony Ericsson and Samsung showing off all manner of new tech-loveliness. The buzz continued on the second day with HTC and Microsoft announcing some seriously cool new tech.

With so much news coming from so many different sources, though, it’s easy for some tasty tidbits of info to get drowned out.

So we compiled this little guide to all the best announcements from MWC 2010, together with a compilation of some amazing facts about the mobile phone industry today and over the next five years.

If you want to see the state of the art for 2010 and get a peek into the future of the mobile industry, read on after the jump.

A Nokia insider has managed to smuggle out a video showing details of the forthcoming Noia X10, a new unannounced phone that wil be the first to feature Nokia’s new Symbian^3 OS.

Nokia were surprisingly quiet during MWC 2010 – in fact, disappointingly so – and so any hint of a new mobile phone from the company is being welcomed with open arms by a Nokia fan base desperate to see some innovation from the Finnish company to take on the multitude of superphones that were launched in Barcelona last week.

Alas, the new X10 may not be that phone. See the video after the jump to see what I mean.

You’ve seen the TV ad – now read the Samsung Jet review!

The ad bangs on a lot about how you don’t have enough time in the day, and how the Jet can save you time by being super fast, super-responsive, and super useful.

Is any of it true? Is the Jet as fast as Samsung claim, and is it a phone worth buying?

Read on for our full Samsung Jet review.

Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg has revealed the company is working much more closely with its parent Sony, and is focusing firmly on the home environment for its future phones.

Nordberg said that future Sony TVs, PCs and stereos, and Sony Ericsson mobiles will all have a common communications interface – DLNA – and that Sony Ericsson’s phones will be much more tightly integrated into Sony’s home entertainment product range.

Nordberg went on to say

In the past, there was no tie-up between us [Sony Ericsson], the PSP platform and Sony, but you can expect to hear much more about that. Sir Howard Stringer’s [chairman of Sony] presence here is no coincidence.”

So, Sony Ericsson PSP phone anyway? It’s been rumoured for years now, makes so much sense, and with Microsoft integrating XBox Live onto its Windows Phone 7 OS, is ultimately inevitable.

Finally, Sony Ericsson’s getting its groove back :)

[Source: GSMA Business Briefing (Monday edition)]

Never one to miss a bandwagon, LG have also released a mini phone in the form of the unsurprisingly-named LG Mini. Joining the likes of HTC and Sony Ericsson, both of whom also released a new mini phone this week, the LG Mini is the smallest 3.2″ full touchscreen phone available.

As you’d expect fromn LG, it’s not exactly short of features either.

Nokia fans have been sorely disappointed this week as a raft of news from other manufacturers has come streaming out of Barcelona, whilst all Nokia had to talk about was their forthcoming alliance with Intel with the Meego platform.

Fear not, though, Nokia fans, for news reaches us that the company is now working with old foe Qualcomm on a new handset that will be powered by the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

OK, so this would have been more impressive this time last year, when Toshiba announced the first mobile phone to use the same processor, but at least it means we’ve finally got a fast Nokia on its way!

[Source: IntoMobile]

After the fugliness of the Huawei U8300, it’s nice to see some genuinely beautiful news phones, such as this pair of Lumigons. The Lumigon S1 (left) and T1 are new Android 2.1 devices that not only feature some pretty capable hardware, they’ve also been designed with cutting edge style in mind.

Lumigon are a Scandinavian company, and the intriguing design reflects the phone’s origins (think Bang & Olufsen rather than Ikea!)

It’s not all about design, though. They’ve also powered their phones with 720p video support, HDMI out, and TV remote control. There’s even an HDMI deskstation accessory, which will let you connect your phone to your TV and a Bluetooth keyboard.

Lumigon founder Lars Gravesen also let slip some exciting news about its forthcoming phone, the E1.

“The E1 is the most beautiful phone I have ever seen during my entire 10 year career in mobile business…featuring a unique navigation system and a shape never experienced in mobile phones” he said.

Sweet! Let’s just hope he’s not over-hyping things a tad!

[Source: IntoMobile]

What’s that coming over the hill, is it a Huawei…

Yes, it certainly is. To be more precise, it’s the Huawei U8100, officially the world’s ugliest phone! Like the other three Huaweis on show here, it’s based on Android and features a new Huawei user interface, which apparently they’ve spent rather more on than the design of the outside of this fugly phone!

Read on after the jump for ore images (if you can bear them!) and more Huawei Android phones.

Sagem have got together with Puma and released the PumaPhone at MWC 2010. The PumaPhone is, as you’d imagine, a ‘lifestyle’ phone – specifically, designed for someone whose lifestyle revolves around keeping fit, running, cycling and generally moving about a bit.

There are dedicated apps for keeping track of your performance in a variety of activites, from running to cycling, as well as the usual obligatory MP3 player (complete with novelty deck for ’scratching’ – yes, it needs the inverted commas, just check it out for yourself in the video below!).

See the video of the PUMAPhone after the jump.

If you’re wondering how well Samsung’s new Bada platform plays games, you might be interested in the video after the jump. Taken at MWC 2010, the video shows the Samsung Wave playing a 3D baseball game, and with pretty nice graphics and smooth motion, it has to be said.

Of course, the game isn’t excatly pushing the hardware all that hard, but at least it gives a flavour of the power of Bada (and, of course, the hardware it’s running on).

Video after the jump.