There were over 1,300 companies exhibiting at the MWC show this year.

T&A/VIEWPOINT: The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010, held in Barcelona, Spain from February 15-18, has seen announcements, unveiling, keynotes and demonstrations that range from the extravagant, opulent, low-key to the controversial, humorous and head shaking-inducing resignation.

The annual event, held at the Fira de Barcelona, sees players from the mobile and networking industry converge across 8 different halls, showing latest mobile devices, networking equipment and negotiate roundtable talks.

Our peers at Singapore’s HardwareZone.com have put up coverage of the showfloor announcements from various key players over the last few days.

You can read about them here (Samsung), here (Sony Ericsson), here (Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 series) and here (general showfloor coverage).

Not only that, Nokia and Intel held a press conference announcing the merging of two of their respective platforms (Maemo and Moblin) into one called MeeGo. While Intel pointed out that MeeGo is not strictly a Nokia only platform, the announcement does pave the way for tighter integration of future Linux-based Nokia devices with Intel’s mobile chipset and platform initiatives.

We’re in the process of compiling videos of the event at the moment. Look out for them very soon. Stay tuned.

UPDATE 22/02/2010: Finally, we’ve got both our MWC videos up online. We’ve split our video coverage into two parts.

MWC 2010 Phone Demo Walkthrough - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 highlights phone demos of the Samsung Wave, its app store, the Sony Ericsson trio of phones and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 series.

MWC 2010 Phone Demo Walkthrough - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of our MWC 2010 video coverage covers Garmin-ASUS nuvifone A50, the NTT DoCoMo Separable Phone, Motorola BACKFLIP, a phone by sports apparel Puma and HTC’s trio of phones — the Legend, Desire and HD mini.