Busier than ever, packed with mobile players from every level of the industry trying to grab their slice of the global mobile pie, everyone has their angle on the show. So here's my take - feel free to offer your own comments and impressions below...

Slimmer, shinier, stylish-er

As well as cranking up the feature count yet again, there was some fine eye-candy on the handset front this year. Samsung in particular seems obsessed with squeezing phones so thin it'd make your eyes water - and producing numerous head-swiveling, quirky designs. Motorola too managed to find a novel twist on the flip/candybar/slider/swivel routine with its Z8 . And LG's Prada phone , though looking iPhone -ish, isn't just a pretty fascia...

Faster, faster, faster

Of course, looks aren't everything. Getting users all that multimedia stuff everyone wants to sell them makes much more sense on broadband. Further talk this year of HSDPA and HSUPA implementation to ratchet up network speeds on 3G, with some fine devices - feature phones and smartphones - geared up for delivering speeds up to 7.2Mbps this year.

Wi-Fi to WiMAX

More handsets with Wi-Fi built in, and more talk of convergence as mainstream home phone set-ups (like BT Fusion and Orange Unique services) meld landlines with mobiles. WiMAX - described by Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin as "the elephant in the room" for operators - was much in evidence as several key players, including Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and Intel trumpeted Mobile WiMAX technology and devices for delivering super-fast wireless broadband.

Sharing revenues

So how do you get people to use these high-speed networks? Take a peek at what's hot on the internet then re-imagine it for the mobile phone. So solutions for social networking, generating and sharing content were cooking up nicely. All that potential revenue from YouTube-style services on mobiles certainly gets operators' pulses racing. It's all going Mobile 2.0, dontcha know?

Windows Mobile 6.0 - smashing!

Microsoft's latest upgrade for its smartphone operating system introduced some very useful extras for business users and prompted a slew of new device announcements from the likes of HTC, LG, Motorola, i-mate, Toshiba, HP and others. Could this be its year...?

Getting around

Sat Nav on mobiles has arrived on the map. Nokia announced an affordable mainstream mobile with built in GPS , RIM introduced a business BlackBerry with Sat Nav , and a handful of other GPS-sporting devices appeared. Add on solutions keep growing too - precise GPS location-based services apps could soon be big news.

Mobile TV turned on

More broadcast mobile TV on show. Not likely to be available in the UK for a long while, so a bit child-at-the-toy-shop-window...

And a special thank you...

...to the media centre sponsors who provided the unlimited supply of Red Bull. Very much appreciated.