Well, these are the devices that were most hyped and as was the rule at MWC this year the hype was inversely proportional to quality. Aside from the Huawei which is an unknown, they really should be better but don’t come close to the benchmark of the iPhone.

LG KM900 / KC910i

LG had a really fancy touch table, full multitap, much like the on in the latest James Bond film. Boded well for the phones but no, touch screen poor and therefore the virtual keyboard just annoying. Interface ok but not slick and not terribly intuitive. There was an interesting array of watch phones.

Samsung Omnia & Beat

Much like the LG’s and previous Samsung touch screens, they don’t do well at registering when and where your finger touches and the UI is nothing special and no real advance. I really liked the idea of the Beat (a mixer on a phone… nice) but with the rubbish touch screen mostly a frustrating experience. Only pics I have are of the stand as there were burly security guys making sure no one took photo’s of the phones. Probably because they are pants and Samsing don’t want anyone to have any proof

Toshiba TG01

From a distance when we saw this we got rather excited and bustled out way over. Looks nice, big screen, wafer thin but once again let down by the touch screen and it’s Windows Mobile. I’m not particularly anti Microsoft, I’m writing this blog on my Vista laptop, but Windows Mobile is pants! Notice I’m not even bothering to mention the HTC Touch and Diamond (Windows Mobile) and just focusing on the HTC Magic. The TG01 didn’t work at all, the lady on the stand reset it by taking battery out, she couldn’t replace the back of the phone properly and it still didn’t work. She grumpily mumbled it was a prototype.

Huawei Android

This phone was the only one we didn’t manage to get our hands on. Lots of hype and fingers crossed the hardware lives up to Android. When we asked the guy on the stand if we could hold it he just laughed, I didn’t think the Chinese were renowned for their sense of humour.