The Mobile World Congress lounge officially opens its doors this morning in Barcelona. After a 2020 edition canceled due to COVID and another reduced to a minimum in 2021 for the same reasons, this year marks the strong comeback of this event dedicated to mobility.
But it will have to be done. Now, the shows will be hybrid with talks and demonstrations being held both on-site and online. This is the future according to Ericsson, who also finds an environmental interest in it. Some builders won’t make the move. This is the case of Lenovo, Sony and Asus. Lenovo will still hold a virtual conference with a new product unveiled.
But the heavyweights of consumer products will be there. Even though Samsung has already unveiled its Galaxy S22 before the show as usual, it still organized an event on Sunday to present its new range of Galaxy Book laptops. Huawei also got the ball rolling yesterday with a press conference where it too presented new laptops.
But it is Honor that is the most anticipated since it should unveil its Honor Magic 4 this afternoon, just after Realme which presents its Realme GT2 in the morning. Qualcomm is probably starting with a new 5G modem like every year at the same time. Finally, we can possibly expect a surprise from Google. Oppo, Xiaomi, Intel, MediaTek or TCL will also be present in force.
On the side of network announcements, it is still on 5G that it will be necessary to count since the operators are all starting to deploy the standard stand-alone which is autonomous from 4G. “Real 5G” to sum up and demonstrations that should be enticing.
You will be able to follow all the MWC 2022 news on 01net.com where we are present, as well as the 01TV team which will record its programs on site.