Someone was killed during Steve Jobs's keynotes speech at the WWDC event today. Anyone remember the iPod Touch? He was the little fellow who looked just like an iPhone, but was available in an 8GB, 16GB and 32GB storage choice.

You could do almost everything on an iPod Touch that you could do on an iPhone, apart from that one important factor - that it lacked phone capabilities. Still, it was cheaper, with the 8GB option coming in at £199, whereas the 8GB iPhone was originally £269 before Apple chopped £100 off the price, less than two months ago.

Now however, who'd want an iPod Touch, considering Steve Jobs tonight said 8GB iPhones would cost $199, or £100 up front? Sure, there's still the £30 or so that you have to pay each month for the contract, but most people pay that much for their mobile phone contracts anyway.

While at Mobile World Congress, I grabbed a demo of oneConnect, Yahoo's innovative new mobile application that draws various social networks and instant messaging apps into one place, including Yahoo's services, but also MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm, LinkedIn, MSN Messenger and AIM.

It's expected to be included in Yahoo's Go 3.0 application by June this year. I was really impressed at how slick it is, and how neatly it presents the different information from all these different Web 2.0 feeds. There's a Pulse feature that lets you see people's profile updates and photo uploads too.

However, it seems the app could be derailed after a complaint from Microsoft, and concern from Facebook over how Yahoo is pulling in information from their services, and whether it's respecting people's privacy.

It was at last year's 3GSM show in Barcelona that we first clapped eyes on Polymer Vision's Readius e-book display. The show's name may have changed to Mobile World Congress, but Polymer Vision was still there this year, showing the latest version of the device, which is now a fully-fledged mobile phone, as we recently reported.

Naturally, I nosed around the company's stand to find out more. According to Pieter van Lieshout, display R&D manager, what was on show this year is an almost-final version of the device, which is due to go on sale in the second half of 2008.

The screen is lovely, I have to say. It's five inches when unrolled, and QVGA resolution. The photo above gives you a sense of how it displays newspaper pictures and text, but my personal impression is that it's very comfortable for reading indeed.

Oh my. If you thought our first crop of stand slogans was the end of it, you were wrong. Over the last couple of days at Mobile World Congress, we shot a few more, just to ensure fairness to all those companies who plastered a crap motto across their stand. Carrying on from Part One...

9. Well, lime green certainly is vibrant.

Whilst not teeming with various new handsets like Samsung, LG at least focused on quality, with their four handsets all being innovative and desirable. Samsung and Motorola, pay attention.

KF510 - touch-sensitive buttons, with an MP3 player, 3.0-megapixel camera, image stabilisation, LED flash and red-eye reduction it can also record QVGA video. Out mid-March. See details here.

KF700 - three touch-sensitive displays (3.0" screen, alpha-numeric keypad and shortcut dual), HSDPA connectivity, video playback, 3.0-megapixel camera. Out mid-March. See details here and video here.

KF600 - similar to KF700, but with only two displays, one being the InteractPad, 3.0-megapixel camera, MP3 player, FM radio. Out mid-March. See details here and video here.

KT610 - runs on Symbian OS, HSDPA, GPS, QWERTY keyboard. See details here.

LG

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As Gary said when he did the product announcement for Motorola earlier in the week, "their heart's not in it". With just three handsets officially announced, we were decidedly unimpressed.

Z6W - a Wi-Fi version of the Z6, it supports all four GSM bands, and has a 2.0-megapixel camera and microSD slot. See details here.

W161 - very basic handset with black and white display and FM radio. Out Q1 2008. See details here.

W181 - 65k-colour display, FM radio. Out Q1 2008. See details here.

(image via Engadget)

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Samsung had the longest line-up of all the manufacturers, with 12 models displayed at the Mobile World Congress show. It's enough to give anyone Samsung fatigue!

Here's a recap on all the new handsets...

U900 Soul - 5.0-megapixel camera, 4x zoom, image stabilisation, HSDPA, mobile blogging, RSS feeds, music library, and microSD slot. Out March, for €400. See details here and video here.

J700 - 1.3-megapixel camera, microSD slot, FM radio, music player, and 2.0" display. Out in March, for €130. See details here.

J150 - slim candybar with a 1.9" display, 1.3-megapixel camera, FM radio and microSD slot. Out in March, for €120. See details here.

Look under the jump for the rest of the line-up...