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.
Sadly, I was struck down ill just as MWC was getting into the swing of things, but my take away from the show is that the world of phones is finally getting interesting again. No longer is each brand releasing a similar glass slab of a phone with slightly different camera configurations. We finally are…
I feel like I have been hyped about the Nokia 9 for years, the Nokia 8 was launched back in 2017 and was the last proper high end device Nokia launched. The Sirocco came after but it was the same device but a different screen. Long delays in the world of tech is never a…
Huawei today has announced a refresh for their laptop lineup. It is somewhat over-eclipsed by the up and coming phone announcement but the new laptops offer flagship specs with innovative features. The announcement included three laptops including the flagship Huawei Matebook X Pro and then also Matebook 14 and 13 models. Each laptop has been…
This is the first year Xiaomi is launching a device at MWC in less than a decade they have gone from launch to the 4th largest phone company in the world. During the event the speaker tried to show off some of their Smart home IoT devices but embarrassingly this failed with Google not responding…
On Sunday Huawei will announced their 5G foldable phone to the world, but one keen-eyed Twitter user caught the installation of and advertisement banner for the new phone. While it is possible this could be a fake it appears to be authentic and the timing of the advert installation coincides with the announcement. One of…
We saw 3 phones officially launched at MWC that are powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 system on chip. This chip is the latest high-end SoC from Qualcomm and will be the chip powering most of this year’s flagships. With the Snapdragon handling the vast majority of the functions, it is interesting to see…
During my time at MWC, I have been using the Moto Z2 Force which is the flagship Motorola phone that uses Moto mods. It was kindly loaned to me by Vodafone and uses the new pay as you go 1 tariff. This is a unique tariff for the UK market where you simply pay up…
During MWC this year I was overwhelmed with all the technology on show and posting about every single thing I photoed would take far too long. So here are some of the highlights from my experience of MWC this year. 3 new Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 based phones announced Samsung dominated the show as usual with…
Most people are talking about the latest and greatest phones that have been launched at MWC that are running the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 including the Sony Xperia XZ2. However, one of the stand out products for me is the Sony Xperia Ear Duo which is an entirely wire-free pair of headphones that buck the trend…
I have just left the Asus event where they announced this years line up of new phones. There are 3 versions of the Asus Zenfone 5. The budget option is the Zenfone 5 Lite which packs four cameras, two of them with a 120-degree wide-angle field-of-view, one on each side. The main rear camera is…
Mobile World Congress 2018 is just a week away, and we will undoubtedly see multiple phones announced with the next generation of system on chips (SoC). The Snapdragon 845 is likely to be used in the next flagship phone which is due to be announced at the Nokia event on the 29th. Historically Samsung has…
I have already covered the new technology in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 system on chip (SoC) but that doesn’t mean a great deal without some real-world results. Qualcomm has finally started demoing units built on the Snapdragon 845 SoC to selected press. The tests are not ideal as the hardware is Qualcomm’s demo units, so…