The GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry.
Mighty Gadget will be attending the event this year and will be bringing you all the latest news and hands-on videos and photos of all the new devices.
This post was originally written in February 2020. While I was a little critical of the Oral-B IO at first, this was more due to the over-inflated prices toothbrushes launch at. Amazon currently states its RRP as £449.99, which is enough to buy a decent laptop or a decent phone. However, as always, almost immediately … Read more
The yearly cycle of tech upgrades isn’t exclusive to mobile phones and TVs, Oral-B updates it toothbrushes on a yearly cycle too. At MWC 2022, they have announced the new flagship Oral-B iO Series 10. The big improvement this year is what Oral-B is calling iOSense, a new virtual brushing coach that will deliver real-time … Read more
At MWC 2022, MediaTek is launching their “little brother” to the flagship Dimensity 9000. It is actually two chipsets, the Dimensity 8100 and 8000, with fractionally different CPU/GPU frequencies. These two chipsets have been rumoured to offer Qualcomm Snapdragon 888-like performance but at a lower price point. MediaTek has also announced the Dimensity 1300. It … Read more
The Poco X3 Pro was a superb phone for the price, and now at MWC 2022, Poco has announced the new Poco X4 Pro 5G. This year, it looks like affordable mid-range phones are really ramping up the quality of their cameras. We have already seen Realme launch the Realme 9 Pro+ for £349 (£299 … Read more
The Realme GT 2 series was announced in China earlier on in the year but is now getting a global launch. The Realme GT 2 is the more affordable of the two models, being very similar to the Realme GT from last year and uses last year’s flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset. As the title suggests, … Read more
The last time I physically attended MWC, in 2019, Huawei announced the beautiful Huawei Mate X 5G, and it looked like the start of an exciting year for Huawei. How things have changed three years later. This year, there is no word on any mobile phones launching, but a focus on laptops and a tablet. … Read more
TCL are one of the few companies that are still doing tablets and it is the NXTPAPER range that is by far the most interesting. The NXTPAPER display is a paper-like display, and coloured E-Ink allows you to get the viewing comfort of a book with the convenience of a tablet. It uses a transflective … Read more
With most phone brands slugging it out competing in the mid-range range market, TCL is embracing the affordable end of Android smartphones. At MWC 2022, they have announced five new phones, with the most expensive being the TCL 30 5G priced at €249, which works out as £210. This features the MediaTek Dimensity 700 a … Read more
AVM FRITZ!Box routers don’t get a lot of attention in the UK, but they are fantastic devices with a great feature set, including a telephone system for DECT, IP and analogue phones. I am currently in the process of reviewing the FRITZ!Box 4060 WiFi 6 router and the FRITZ!Repeater 6000 WiFI mesh repeater, which should … Read more
Yesterday, for the first day of the Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm announced their new Snapdragon 888+ chipset. Much like the launch of the Snapdragon 865+, not much has changed, it looks like the improvements are even more incremental than last year. 5% CPU frequency improvement The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ is effectively just a speed … Read more
As we enter MWC 2021 day 2, MediaTek has announced a new Open Resource Architecture which gives device makers more control over the hardware features of the chipset they use. How much brands will tailor things and what benefits that has for the end-users remains to be seen. However, it is an interesting idea that … Read more
Infinix are not normally a brand I associate with being pioneers of technology, but at the start of MWC 2021, they have announced a new concept phone with the fastest charge speeds on the market. 160W wired charging and 50W wireless The new Infinix Concept Phone 2021 is capable of 160W wired charging and 50W … Read more
Motorola has not had a good time in recent years, what was once one of the dominant phone companies, they saw a sharp decline in market share leading to years of loses and the eventual sale to Lenovo. Things started to look up last year, Lenovo revealed that its mobile business group – which houses … Read more
On 11th of February Samsung will likely be the first company to officially launch a phone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 on their new Samsung Galaxy S20 series. With MWC 2020 a few days later it is expected we will see many more phones launching on the latest and greatest Qualcomm has to offer before … Read more
The two things everyone was talking about at MWC were foldable phones and 5G. The Huawei Mate X lived up to the hype then sadly ruined my dreams of ever affording one with its £2000 price tag, they wouldn’t even allow me to touch it. MWC this year had a large number of announcements for … Read more
Hidden away in the depths of hall 8 at MWC was the Oral B booth. Not exactly something you would expect to see at the Mobile World Congress, but the toothbrush uses a mobile app and they were based in the app hall, so I will give them a pass. Oral B will be launching … Read more