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

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?

Looking for the very latest news from MWC 2010, the biggest mobile phone exhibition of the year?

Here it is, in all its glory!

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, an Android-based touchcsreen smartphone, has been leaked and officially announced for months, even though it’s still not on sale. We’ve also had rumours of the Xperia X10 mini, which has just been confirmed by Sony Ericsson at their press even at MWC 2010.

What we weren’t expecting, though, is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro, a tiny Android smartphone with a name that’s longer the phone and a physical QWERTY keyboard – you know, for pros!

Is the Xperia X10 Mini (and the Pro) any good though?

The first Samsung Bada phone, the Samsung Wave S8500, has been officially previewed today at the start of MWC 2010. It’s been an open secret that the Wave would be show in Barcelona this week (largely because of the giany billboard poster Samsung had put up telling everybody about the Wave!), but this is the first time the world’s mobile press have been able to get their grubby hands on it!

So, what are the first impressions? How does Bada compare to the multitude of other smartphone OSes on the market at the moment, and what’s the Samsung Wave actually like?

Bring on the rumours! Nokia are thought to be bringing a new high-def video phone to MWC 2010 in the form of the Nokia N8-00. The N8-00 is rumoured to have a tonne of mouth-watering features together with a brand new Symbian OS.

I’ll get to the features in a minute, but first onto Symbian. For the past year or so, excitement has gathered around Google’s Android, which has left Windows Mobile and especially Nokia’s Symbian trailing in its wake.

This caused Nokia to look hard at Symbian, and ultimately ditch the second generation of the Symbian platform (which was called Symbian^2), jumping straight to the third generation (Symbian^3) instead.

The Nokia N8 will feature that third generation. Multi-touch gestures, beatiful user interface, capacitive screens – everything we’ve been waiting for from Nokia since Apple first threw down the iPhone gauntlet in 2007.

As if that wasn’t tasty enough, there’s the small matter of the features of the Nokia N8-00…

LG had so much success with their original LG Cookie that they’ve decided to release a successor and a whole new line of Cookie phones.

The Cookie’s successor is the LG Cookie Plus (or LG GS500 to give it its slightly less interesting model name), and like the original Cookie, will also be a cheap touchscreen phone – but this time, with many more features and a heavy focus on social media integration.

Garmin-Asus have announced not one but two new smartphones – the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone A50 and Nuvifone M10 – both of which should be on display at MWC 2010 next week.

The Nuvifone A50 runs on Android while the Nuvifone M10 is a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone. Both are touchscreen smartphones, and, as you’d expect from Garmin, they both focus primarily on navigation.

That said, virtually all smartphones comewith GPS and some form of mapping software these days. So what do the Garmin-Asus Nuvifones offer that you can’t get with, say, any other Android smartphone, and why has Garmin gone to all the trouble of building its own phone?…

Finally, we have a tonne of other Android news on unofficial Android day, including:

Inbrics will be launching the Inbrics M1 at MWC 2010 next week. The M1 is a 3.7″ Android phone with slide out keyboard, and what Inbrics are calling a “convergence controller”, which will push data to any device the user chooses. Intriguing!

And now we bring you the HTC Legend, fellow readers, our fourth bit of Android news for the day! I told you this was Android Day – for some unknown reason, virtually every bit of news coming out of mobile phone land today is all about Android.

Maybe it’s because it’s the run up to MWC 2010 next week. Either every other mobile manufacturer is keeping their cards close to their chest, or the Android manufacturers are feeling very confident and want to get their news out early.

Whatever it is, today’s been an absolute feast for Android (and Megan Fox!) fans!

Anyway, onto the HTC Legend.