Gphone and Other Highlights From Barcelona Tech Show

BARCELONA -- The 2008 Mobile World Congress has come to a close.

Hopeful cellular manufacturers are breaking down their display booths and tens of thousands of weary showgoers also are packing up and wending their way back home -- to nearly every corner of the planet.

My producer/videographer Dee Robertson agreed that while the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a somewhat larger show, this Mobile World Congress was smaller but much more global in scope -- with English-speaking attendees in the minority.

Maybe it's because the U.S. cell phone market is out of step with the rest of the world with not only GSM phones (used everywhere on the planet) but also Verizon(VZ Quote)/Sprint(S Quote)-centric CDMA handsets. ...