Category: MWC 2018

MWC 2018: Doogee V joins others in ‘proving’ that we all want the notch

Published date February 27, 2018

Like it or not, Apple’s introduction of ‘the notch’ has seen the far eastern smartphone manufacturers falling over themselves to incorporate it in their own handsets. Yesterday I mentioned the Ulefone T2 Pro, and Asus also unveiled the Zenfone 5 today with, yep, the notch. In this case, Asus claimed they… [Click for more]

MWC 2018: Ulefone’s flagship T2 Pro copies Apple’s best feature?

Published date February 27, 2018

Ulefone showed no shame with its copy of Apple’s iPhone X screen. If you love the notch but want to stick with Android, it could be for you.

MWC 2018: Does the Samsung S9 prove we’ve pretty much reached perfection?

Published date February 26, 2018

Last night at an absolutely huge event in Barcelona, Samsung revealed what we already knew – the two new Galaxy S9 products, the £739 S9 and the £869 S9+. Let’s hope your credit cards aren’t already maxed out, for they soon will be! There was little in the way of… [Click for more]

MWC 2018: Sony launches XZ2 and XZ2 Compact with 4K HDR video recording and all new design

Published date February 26, 2018

2018 is the year that Sony Mobile hopes to get back into a game it once used to dominate. The XZ2 and XZ2 Compact introduces an all-new design language, banished bezels (well, partly) and some world-firsts thrown in for good measure. There’s no arguing that for many years, every new… [Click for more]

MWC 2018: Nokia launches a barrage of new phones from €79 to €749 – and throws in a banana!

Published date February 26, 2018

Nokia has had a good 12 months, having shipped 70 million phones since it last attended Barcelona to relaunch the brand as a maker of mobile phones (and more notably, Android mobile phones for the most part). Starting off a nice and quick press event with no pointless demos and… [Click for more]

MWC 2018: Huawei kicks off Sunday with MateBook X Pro and MediaPad M5 series, but no phones

Published date February 25, 2018

Huawei kicked off a packed day of pre-MWC events with the announcement of a new MateBook X Pro laptop and three different sized MediaPad M5 Android tablets. There was no phone announcement, which wasn’t a surprise given the separate event in Paris next month that will reveal the P20 and… [Click for more]

MWC 2018 Preview: What can we expect from the biggest mobile trade show?

Published date January 22, 2018

The biggest event in the mobile industry calendar kicks off next month. What can we expect to see launched?