The world's cellphone manufacturers are out prancing their wares at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), currently being held in Barcelona, Spain. Samsung, the world’s second biggest manufacturer of mobile phones after Nokia, showed off the first of their new smartphones for the year. As predicted, the Samsung Wave is the first mobile phone from the Korean company using their new bada mobile OS.
 
The Wave features a 3.3" “Super AMOLED” touch-screen, a five megapixel camera, a one GHz processor (most probably Qualcomm's Snapdragon) and high-definition (HD) video recording. Games and news apps for bada can be downloaded from the new Samsung Apps online store, which according to JK Shin, head of Samsung’s mobile operations, is already open in France, Britain and Italy, and should be available in over 50 countries in 2010.
 
Samsung’s Wave is the first of five bada smartphones to be launched this year, with the company also planning to introduce five or more Android phones in 2010 and a couple more powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile.
 
Sony Ericsson (SE) launched its Xperia X10 stable mates- the X10 Mini and the X10 Pro. Both devices are Android-based and sport touch-screens, five megapixel cameras, GPS navigation, with the Pro also adding a slide-out QWERTY-keyboard. SE also launched a Symbian-powered Vivaz Pro that sports a 5.1 megapixel camera and the ability to record HD video (720p). The MWC will run till Thursday.