In the leadup to the 2019 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Zen Soo speaks with one of the world's great authorities on smartphones and the global mobile industry. Bryan Ma is Vice President of Client Devices research at IDC Asia Pacific, covering mobile phones, tablets, PCs, AR/VR headsets, wearables, and monitors across Asia as well as worldwide and has the lowdown on what people can expect from the world's biggest and most important launch event for smartphones. Bryan Ma thinks one word sums up the hottest topic at this year's MWC in Barcelona: foldables. More than just a fad, he thinks folding mobile phones are the new battleground for the major smartphone makers and explains why 2019 will the year of the foldables. He also takes an incisive look at the Chinese smartphone companies Xiaomei, Lenovo, Oppo and Huawei and analyses how they clawed their way to the top of the global industry, from perceptions of low-end poor-quality products to top-end camera lenses and computing features. Subscribe or listen now on iTunes or on Spotify