MWC 2024

I magine shaking hands with a humanoid robot or having artificial intelligence seamlessly integrated into your phone’s every function. These aren’t just pipe dreams anymore; at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Spain, they became tangible realities. Even jewellery got a tech boost — think smart rings with features that could revolutionise health monitoring and contactless payments. From the familiar form factors like smartphones reinvented, to completely new categories like robot companions, MWC 2024 painted a…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends I’ve seen a future where you may never need apps or to unlock your phone at all, yet still get everything you want done, plus more, and even faster than you can now. At MWC 2024, Deutsche Telekom and Brain Technologies showed off the concept of an appless phone, where actions we normally perform using them are instead handled by an AI concierge that lives on the device’s lock screen. The week before the show, I spoke to Brain’s founder and CEO Jerry Yue and had an in-depth demonstration…

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Google picked up its first-ever Best Smartphone award. This award is handed out at MWC by the GSM Association (GSMA) every year, and the Pixel 8 was chosen as the winner among all the devices that were in the running. Despite having the most number of devices in the running, Samsung failed to impress the GSMA judges. The full list included the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, all iPhone 15 models, the OnePlus Open, the Oppo Find N3, the Galaxy S23 lineup, and the Galaxy Z Flip 5. The GSMA…

Nothing Community Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 has come and gone with a flurry of new smartphones and mobile tech. Nothing, a brand that has set itself apart from the rest with truly unique and interesting hardware designs, also revealed its latest phone. The Nothing Phone 2a is a new budget offering from Nothing following the success of the Nothing Phone 1 and Nothing Phone 2. While I love the aesthetics of the previous iterations of the Nothing Phone, this new one is, well … not as pleasing. That camera…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends The industry returned to Mobile World Congress this year like it was 2019, reinvigorating a trade show that had lost its mojo since those halcyon days. And to celebrate, they brought with them as many mad, crazy, and unexpectedly innovative devices as they could cram in their suitcases. The result is one of the most entertaining MWC events of the recent years, and evidence that mobile companies aren’t listening at all when they’re told mobile tech is boring in 2024. Concepts galore Joe…

Minimachines.net Tecno, renowned in the smartphone industry, is branching out into the realm of computing with the launch of its latest innovation, the Mega Mini Gaming G1. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, this tiny PC claims the title of the world’s smallest gaming PC featuring watercooling. While its claim awaits thorough validation, the device does look promising on paper. Powered by an Intel Core i9-13900H CPU, the Mega Mini Gaming G1 will also be available with the latest Intel Core Ultra…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 has come and gone, leaving us with a flood of smartphone announcements. From new devices launching soon to wild concepts that may never see the light of day, it’s the place to be if you’re a phone geek. We got a look at some of the hottest new phones during the show, and these are our picks for the very best ones. Tecno Pova 6 Pro Andy Boxall / Digital Trends If you love a phone with a crazy name and equally insane features, then the Tecno Pova 6 Pro is…

Given that this week Instagram revealed that it was developing a “Friend Map” feature, it was interesting and timely to run into a startup during Mobile World Congress that plans to go beyond even that. Swayy is an iPhone app startup that allows you to share not your current location, but your next intended location. That could be either in a couple of hours in the future, or even weeks or months away. So why on earth would anyone want to do that? Well, as founder Daneh Westropp told me, the advantage is that instead…

In May 2019, Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion became Ultraleap (not to be confused with Magic Leap, which operates in the same space). It’s a name change representing the marriage of two different, yet related, tech startups. Ultrahaptics naturally got top billing, as it was the one doing the acquiring – paying around $30 million for the hand-tracking firm. After failing to meet up at CES (thanks, COVID), I met up with co-founder and CEO Tom Carter at a coffee shop away from the maddening crowds of MWC 2024 to discuss…

The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. You already know what we’re expecting, so sit back, relax and stay tuned throughout the week as we bring you the products, announcements and startup news from MWC that you need to know. So far, we’ve seen some big announcements from companies, including new Android features from Google, Lenovo’s new laptop concept and rollable phone concept and Xiaomi’s robotic dog. As MWC progresses, here’s how you can…