Top 10 best and worst of MWC 2009

4. Events far away from the grounds
As mentioned earlier I'm fond of Barcelona and it's a great location for Mobile World Congress, however, it's a pretty big city and cramming in as much as I do in three days makes it an extremely hectic time.

With this in mind, why on earth do companies insist on holding events that are far away from the showground? The show itself spans eight large halls and getting from one end to the other can take half an hour at brisk pace, so the concept of then having to fight your way through throngs of people, find a taxi, bus or Metro stop and head out to an event is extremely offputting and more than likely going to make visitors opt for one of the other deluge of invitations for briefings, launches or interviews in the showground.

5. Android
Android makes it onto our worst list, not because we don't like Google's open source mobile operating system (quite the contrary, in fact), but because it was almost entirely absent from a show where it should have been one of the hottest topics around.

With so many manufacturers joining the Open Handset Alliance in recent months we were expecting to see a plethora of new phones running Android being unveiled at MWC, but pretty much the only Android related announcement was the HTC Magic, and even that was fairly lacklustre at it is essentially the same design as the G1, but without the keyboard.