Today an announcement related to the latest handsets was made by HTC at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, which also included the Touch Diamond 2 and the Touch Pro 2. It would be nice to know that both the sets run Windows Mobile and will be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5.

The unique TouchFLO 3D interface by HTC is used as an overlay on both handsets to Windows Mobile 6.1.

At the GSMA World Congress 2009, a number of announcements were made by the LG Electronics, one of which included its alliance with Microsoft to make Windows Mobile the chief operating system for the company's smartphones.

It was announced by LG that as part of the agreement, a tenfold increase of Windows Mobile devices in 2009 would be created by it. The company got things started with the introduction of LG-GM730.

There were loads of rumors that were floating around as to what Acer would launch at its planned Monday press conference even weeks before at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona.

It was quite sure that they will announce smartphones; however it was not sure as to how many and what type. But now the cat is out of the bag as on Monday night, the company revealed all the devices.

At the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Chinese telecommunications company Huawei made announcement regarding its maiden Android-powered smartphone, which it would make commercially available in the Q3 2009.

HTC would be joined by Huawei in the Android operating system camp with a real production phone. Other than this, even Motorola and Kogan would join HTC, who have announced plans to ship devices running Google's operating system.

Leading telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider, ZTE Corporation ("ZTE") launched new data cards MF662 and MF645, adding two more products in its high speed packet access (HSPA) product portfolio. The MF662 is a compact HSDPA+ data card while MF645 is a USB TV data card used to relay highly quality digital TV signals over laptop with mobile broadband connection.

MF662, specially designed for HSPA+ networks, would offer high speed mobile internet surfing with its adapter offers download and upload rates of up to
21.6 Mbps over 3G network.

Aditya Birla group owned, Hindalco Industries, approved financial restructuring plans for future, chalking out new strategy for further expansion and reserving funds to implement growth plans. Some portion of amount would also utilize for adjustment of non-operating / extraordinary costs aroused on accounts of some international acquisitions and company's ambitious organic growth projects.

The company said, "The aforesaid amount would be utilized for write off or adjustment of non-operating costs on international acquisition made by the company and organic growth projects in India."