Recapping Mobile World Congress 2009

It was the promise of many Windows Mobile users that Mobile World Congress 2009 would make upwardly for the lackluster showing at the CES in January. While some may call back different, Barcelona was a cornucopia of announcements, displays and rumors of what the rest of the year holds for Windows Mobile. Coverage of the event by our own EIC Dieter Bohn was logged non in yards only in miles, and it'southward time to wrap upwardly all the stories he tracked downwardly.

Read on for a breakup of all that went down in Barcelona.

Device Announcements

While HTC may have been the biggest bang heard effectually the MWC grounds, it wasn't the manufacturer with new phones on brandish.

Hands on with the HTC Touch Pro 2
Hands on with the HTC Touch Diamond two
LG HQ
Pantech Matrix Pro
HTC Touch Prowl (2)
Garmin/Asus M20
Acer DX900
Acer X960
Acer F900 and M900
Samsung Valencia
Toshiba TG01
LG Eigen/GM730
Imate 810F

Software

Windows Mobile 6.5 was the large announcement and largely matched upwardly with the numerous leaks that appeared in the weeks before the prove. The jury is still out on whether vi.5's going to be anything to write home most, though Dieter was less than impressed.

Hands on with Windows Mobile half-dozen.v
SPB Mobile Trounce 3
Windows Marketplace Mobile
Microsoft Recite
Microsoft My Phone
Blackberry Awarding Suite
Sony's New Xperia Panels
Bolt Mobile Web Browser
Windows Mobile half-dozen.5 Total Feature Listing
HTC to Update TouchFlo 3D

Other news

LG stood up and joined hands with Microsoft, pledging to brand Windows Mobile the company's primary smartphone Os and to crank out fifty new devices by 2022. We too saw a delivery by industry leaders to seek standardization and keep to strive for more effective and efficient technologies.

Verizon Launching 4G Test Sites Subsequently This Year
HTC Prototype Stolen
The Micro USB Standard

So, providing everything stays on schedule, we've got some exciting new phones and an incremental upgrade to Windows Mobile on the way this year. And nosotros'll exist on superlative of it every footstep of the style.