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

Huawei are the latest to introduce a new mini phone at MWC 2010 with this, the T-Mobile Pulse Mini. Featuring much of the same features as the standard T-Mobile Pulse, including a 3.2 megapixel camera, aGPS, WiFi and all the rest, the Pulse Mini goes one better by adding Android 2.1 to the mix.

Its screen is only 2.8″ and you’d never exactly call the Pulse Mini, but with its diminuitive proportions, you can’t deny its cuteness.

Even cuter is the expected price – just £99 on Pay As You Go when it’s released in the UK in April.

[Source: Pocket-Lint]

HTC may have been showing off their new shiny Android phones at MWC 2010 today, but that doesn’t mean they’d forgotten about dear old (and I do mean old!) Windows Mobile. So they also released this, the HTC HD Mini, a much smaller version of the HTC HD2 released late last year.

The HD2 was the best Windows Mobile smartphone ever released, and with the transition from Windows Mobile to the brand new (and utterly different) Windows Phone 7 Series, will probably remain so. Indeed, it’ll probably become a classic of its time – the definitive Windows Mobile phone, you could call it.

But the HD2 was huge – its screen was 4.3″ in size – meaning it wasn’t for everyone.

So HTC decided to cover all bases, and have come up its little brother, the HTC HD Mini. Featuring the same Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS and HTC Sense UI, it’s pretty much the same phone, but in a much smaller body.

Does that make it unusable though? Well, let’s have a look.

If you thought the HTC Legend was good, wait until you see the HTC Desire. Sporting the same internals as the Google Nexus One (i.e. a 1GHz Snapdrgaon CPU, 3.7″ AMOLED display, 5 megapixel camera, and all the usual sensors, GPS, WiFi and HSDPA gloriousness you’d expect from an Android device – oh, and Android 2.1), the HTC Desire adds to all this, er, desirability with its newly updated Sense UI.

Oh, and it also throws Flash 10.1 into the mix as well. Mmmmmm :)

More pics of the HTC Desire after the jump

HTC have officially unveiled the HTC Legend smartphone at MWC 2010 this week. Although the Legend has been leaked a few times in the past few months, the new successor to the HTC Hero still managed to sneak through the odd surprise – principally in its beautiful aluminium-strewn looks.

If this isn’t the best looking smartphone on the market I don’t know what is!

Read on for all the details and more photos of the HTC Legend after the the jump.

Microsoft is nearly at the end of its launch of its brand new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 Series. And I do mean brand new – absolutely everything about WinMo 7 is new, from the user interface right on down to the underlying code.

Even the name is new – out goes WinMo, in comes, er, WinPho!

And what a hugely welcome relief this is! The old Windows Mobile was creaking so badly, it was beyond repair. Thankfully, Microsoft realised this and have raised their game, producing a brand new mobile OS with a new user interface that’s at least as good as the other interfaces that are now on the market.

If only Nokia had done that with Symbian!

But that’s another story. The story of the day is what WinPho7 offers, how good it is – and why Microsoft might just have hobbled it before it’s even had a chance to succeed!

Say hello to the Samsung Beam, the first Android 2,1 phone with built-in pico-projector.

OK, so I know you’re all thinking that was the Samsung Halo, but it turns out that Halo was just the codename – the actual released name of the device is the Samsung Beam.

After the euphoria of the Beam’s details from yesterday, we can finally see how good it is today. Check out the video after the jump to see for yourself.

Nokia has finally caught up with the rest of the mobiel phone world with its announcement today of Symbian^3. As you can see in the video (after the jump), Symbian^3 features everything a modern mobile OS has featured since 2007, including fast flip scrolling, multiple customizable homepages and kinetic scrolling.

It also features multi-tasking, pinch-touch zooming, HDMI support, and 2D and 3D graphics acceleration.

In short, it keeps Nokia’s head above water for the time being, but the company desperately needs some good phones to taek advantage of it.

Check the video after the jump.

Bizarre – that’s the only word for it! With other mobile phone manufacturers releasing a blizzard of new superphones, Nokia have announced they’ve teamed up with Intel to develop- yet anohter mobile operating system!

Called MeeGo, it will be a fusion of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin Linux-based operating systems. Both are pretty niche OSes at the moment, but Nokia and Intel are hoping to change all that by trying to get Meego into as many types of device as possible.

Like what?…

Wow! Samsung will be showing off this, the Samsung Halo i8520 phone tomorrow at MWC 2010. The Halo is both an unbelievably good smartphone from Samsung, yet also something of an enigma.

First the goodies – the Samsung Halo is a 3.7″ SuperAMOLED-totting Android 2.1 smartphone with a list of features longer than your arm, and which includes not just an 8 megapixel camera, not just 720p/30 frames per second video recording, but a built-in pico projector for projecting images and video onto a wall!

Seriously, the list of features on this new phone is just stunning – check them out after the jump.

Well, who’d have thought – Sony Ericsson have stolen the limelight (so far at least!) at MWC 2010. First the Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro, and now this – the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro.

We’ve already seen the Vivaz as it was announced a few weeks ago. The Vivaz is a superb Symbian-based touhcscreen phone with stunning mutlimedia features.

What the Vivaz Pro brings to the table is the addition of a physical QWERT Y keyboard. Think of it, then, as the final nail in the coffin for the much-maligned Nokia N97. In every respect the Vivaz is a better phone, and now with a better physical QWERTY keyboard, there’s no reason whatsoever to buy Nokia’s offering.

But back to the Vivaz Pro – is it any good?