To attract more Indians, Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) is all set to roll out a diesel variant of its premium compact car, the i-20, by the end of the existing year (2009).

The second largest car maker, which has already launched i-20 diesel variant in the European market, is now looking at launching the car in the Indian market.

Leading electronic equipment manufacturer, LG Electronics, announced to launch a new Handset KT770, company's fourth S60 on Symbian device, at the Mobile World Congress. The new product runs on Symbian OS 9.4, representing S60 5th Edition on Symbian operating system with a slider form factor and a numeric keypad.

Its other features include highly efficient 5-megapixel camera, 2.8-inch touch screen, Wi-Fi facility and HSDPA connectivity to offer high speed data transfer.

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.