Mobile World Congress Round-Up: Smartphones, Apps and Awards

Mobile World Congress appears to be a success and there were so many announcements, they begged to be summarized in one of our easy-to-read Cliff-Notes-Style round-ups.

Smartphones Get Smarter and Cheaper at Mobile World Congress.

• Acer showed four smartphones and then revealed that they may be free with contract with such carriers as AT&T and T-Mobile.
• Nokia showed off E-Series messaging phones and the super-megapixel  N86 8MP.
• Not to be outdone in the camera department, Sony showed the concept-phone, the Idou with a 12.1 megapixel camera phone while showing the W995 8 megapixel Walkman phone.
  
• Pre-MWC Garmin-Asus announced the super GPS enabled, Nuvifone M20.
• Samsung showed the first solar-powerd Blue Earth phone, a mobile phone with a Texas Instruments' Projector and Samsung OMINA HD.
  
• The Palm Pre will multitask data and voice in Europe as well as an eBook on Mojo is published.
• i-Mate launched the waterproof impervious i-mate 8-10 smartphone with GPS.