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MWC Barcelona 2019

MWC Barcelona 2019
MWC Barcelona, formerly known as Mobile World Congress, will be held in the Spanish city on February 25-28. It is the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry. This year's event will focus on the powerful combination of 5G networks, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and big data.
Huawei’s Mate X foldable 5G mobile device was easily the star of this year’s Mobile World Congress. Photo: Bloomberg
Smartphones

Chinese phone brands won MWC 2019. Here’s what they revealed

Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, ZTE and Nubia all had a great showing at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Huawei’s foldable Mate X was the star, but the other brands all did their bit to grab attention.

Alibaba

Huawei spat fuels misconceptions about Chinese tech firms in Europe

Smartphones

The 2019 Mobile World Congress and what next for foldable phones

The View

The View | A strategy for Huawei: lie low and plan a US listing

The Chinese telecom giant would do better to fend of attacks from the US by negotiating privately, avoiding involving the government and burnishing its reputation with a listing in New York.

Visitors take photographs of Huawei’s new foldable 5G smartphone Mate X at the Mobile World Congress on February 24 in Barcelona. Photo: AFP
Pets

Smartphone apps to keep tabs on your pets are going to be big

At Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, makers of smart wearables are shifting their focus from humans to their dog and cat companions, showing activity trackers, cat poop monitors and a self-cleaning litter tray.

Smartphones

Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone takes on Samsung’s Galaxy Fold

The Mate X, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is bigger and folds outwards to become a tablet, unlike Samsung’s device that opens like a book

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China technology

Telecoms gear makers Huawei and ZTE pitch 5G plans in Barcelona

Huawei and ZTE, combined, have the biggest number of 5G standard essential patents in the world.

Telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp displays its range of 5G mobile base stations inside its booth at MWC Barcelona. Photo: Bien Perez
Huawei

Huawei chairman defends company’s track record in data security

Top Huawei executive called on telecoms industry and governments to work together to implement unified cybersecurity standards.

Technology

Man gets RFID chip implant so he can open his house door

Bank shows how under-skin RFID chips can be used for payments, opening doors in smart homes.

Asia Tech

Get ready for era of US$2,000 foldable smartphones

Huawei’s record-setting US$2,600 price tag for its 5G-ready, folding Mate X phone is more than double the monthly average salary of office workers in China.

Think US$1,000 iPhones are expensive? Get ready for US$2,000 foldable smartphones
Huawei

Huawei looks to show 5G lead at world’s biggest mobile exhibition

The Shenzhen-based telecoms equipment giant will feature its latest 5G mobile gear at MWC Barcelona amid US efforts to block use of its products around the world.

Guo Ping, rotating chairman at Huawei Technologies, will deliver a keynote speech on intelligent connectivity at MWC Barcelona, the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry. Photo: Bloomberg
China technology

2019 Mobile World Congress preview - is it the Year of the Foldables?

Senior analyst Bryan Ma from IDC Asia Pacific tells us why he thinks foldable phones will dominate at Barcelona this year, and takes a deeper look at why and how China’s smartphone giants Xiaomei, Opo and Huawei achieved world dominance.

Smartphones

The best 20 smartphones list of 2019

Expect changes as Samsung and LG reveal their new releases, with more to follow at the Mobile World Congress, writes Antonio Villas-Boas

Huawei

Explainer | How Huawei became the world’s No 1 telecoms gear supplier

A US-led campaign to block the deployment of 5G equipment from Huawei is threatening the Chinese company’s business in Europe, its biggest overseas market.

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How Huawei went from small-time trader in Shenzhen to world’s biggest telecoms equipment supplier
Huawei

5G devices on the way ahead of first networks launching in 2019

Early adopters of 5G phones will get access to a data superhighway all to themselves, promising not just lightning fast high-resolution downloads but instant connections; the shopping experience will be revolutionised too

Early adopters of 5G phones will get access to a data superhighway all to themselves, promising not just lightning fast high-resolution downloads but instant connections; the shopping experience will be revolutionised too

Editor’s picks: the best new phones at Mobile World Congress 2018

Latest smartphones flaunt improved camera, and audio and artificial intelligence features at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona 

Smartphones

Phone makers battle declining sales with camera software tricks

After suffering the first sales decline in nearly 15 years, mobile phone companies are trying to stand out by offering unique features, or joining the latest arms race: advanced photography software and artificial intelligence

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Travel news and advice

Five must-have travel gadgets from Mobile World Congress 2018

This week’s tech gathering in Barcelona saw a swathe of gadgets designed for travel, from the new Samsung Galaxy S9 to an unlimited-roaming MiFi gadget to a smart earpiece that can translate six languages in real time

Five new tech gadgets for the traveller.
Smartphones

Video | The day I drove a Porsche using AI and a Huawei phone at MWC

With just a telephoto-lens camera attached to the top of a Porsche Panamera that fed road footage to a Huawei Mate 10 Pro, the phone’s neural processing unit (NPU) was able to identify objects and react to them accordingly

Future of transport

Drone taxi, dog tracker: 10 best innovations at Mobile World Congress

Incredible holograms, AR and VR, 5G innovations, disease control by smartphone, and tracking systems for dogs, children and valuables: here are the 10 most exciting tech innovations to come out of Mobile World Congress

Travel news and advice

Four new rugged travel smartphones built for the adventurous

This week’s Mobile World Congress saw super-tough smartphones from Land Rover, Energizer, Caterpillar and Hong Kong’s RugGear making their mark, packing huge batteries, drop- and freeze-proof bodies, and new GPS functions

The Land Rover Explore smartphone works in below-freezing temperatures as well as in extreme humidity.
Autonomous vehicles

Huawei smartphone powers driverless Porsche Panamera

China’s Huawei modifies Porsche Panamera to prove its smartphone chip’s AI capability
Explainers: Technology

Here’s what all the 5G fuss is about

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud sets sights on US market as it expands Europe services

Xiaomi

All eyes on ‘Apple of China’ as Xiaomi debuts at biggest mobile show

In first appearance at Barcelona event, all eyes on the ‘Apple of China’ as it gears up for listing after solid performance last year

Not a fan of the iPhone X notch? China’s Vivo offers pop-up selfie

China’s No 3 smartphone vendor, which saw shipments decline 0.8 per cent last year, tries to make up lost ground with products appealing to young users
Smartphones

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 may be too little, too late to retake China market

Huawei says national security accusations are `groundless’

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