Organised by the GSMA, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the biggest mobile phone event of the year. The GSMA Mobile World Congress 2018 or MWC 2018 for short happening from February 26 – March 1 at the Fira Gran Via venue in Barcelona, Spain.
With the exception of Apple, this year’s MWC event will be attended by major brands such as ASUS, HTC, Huawei, Lenovo (Motorola), LG Electronics, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, TCL (Alcatel and Blackberry Mobile), Vivo, Xiaomi and ZTE.
This year Samsung is expected to unveil the new Galaxy S9 Series while LG could unveil its upgraded LG V30 with AI advancements (LG V30s). Other devices billed to go official include new Huawei Matebook PCs and Tablets, Nokia 9, Sony Xperia XZ2, ASUS ZenFone 5 Series, Motorola G6 series and more.
Later this week, Samsung is expected to launch its new flagships – the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus at the MWC 2018, Barcelona. Ahead of the ‘Unpacked’ event, the full specifications of both smartphones have leaked online thanks to both Evan Blass (@evleaks) and Roland Quandt (@rquandt) of WinFuture. https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/965603927835267072 Both the Galaxy S9 […]
Qualcomm has begun sampling of the World’s First Announced 2 Gbps LTE Modem – the Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem. The new modem is the first-announced chip built on a leading edge 7nm FinFET process and world’s first commercially announced Cat. 20 LTE modem supporting up to 2 Gbps download speeds. Succeeding last year’s […]
Last week, ASUS sent out out press invites for its Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 launch event scheduled for February 27 in Barcelona. With the invite carrying the Qualcomm branding and inscribed with captions such as #BackTo5 and ‘We Love Photo’, the Taiwanese brand is expected to launch the Zenfone 5 series smartphones with Qualcomm […]
Ulefone has sent out invites for the MWC 2018 launch event for an all-screen smartphone with the all-new Mediatek Helio P70 SoC on-board. Dubbed the Ulefone T2 Pro, the flagship features a unique 19:9 full-screen display similar to that of the Apple iPhone X and dual rear cameras. According to sources, it is expected to […]
Few weeks after showing up on Chinese certification agency, TENAA, HMD Global has launched the 4G LTE version of Nokia 3310 in partnership with China Mobile. The low-end device, which is the follow-up to the 3310 and 3310 3G, now runs YunOS a forked version of Android developed by China’s Alibaba Group. Sporting the same […]
At the CES 2018, TCL unveiled new Alcatel smartphones with 18:9 FullScreen (Full View) displays – Alcatel 1X, Alcatel 3V and Alcatel 5. The popular Chinese company also confirmed the IDOL branding has been dropped and new smartphones will be classed under the all-new Alcatel 1, 3 and 5 series. In the order of specs […]