MWC 2024: Highlights of new devices and innovations
This week witnessed the activities of the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2024), which is held annually in the Spanish city of Barcelona, and which is considered one of the most prominent technology conferences and one of the most prominent events related to mobile technology and networks in the world. Despite the absence of announcements of leading smartphones by manufacturers over the past years, MWC 2024, as usual, highlighted many new technologies expected to spread in the future.
MWC 2024: The most prominent devices and technical innovations
These are the most prominent new devices and technical innovations witnessed at the MWC 2024 conference:
– A foldable and wearable phone from Motorola
Motorola, the leading mobile phone manufacturer, presented a vision of a completely foldable smartphone, so that the user can completely bend the phone in different positions or even around his wrist, with the ability to easily unfold it later, which may later give us more advanced wearable devices that may replace the need for… Smartphones themselves.
Samsung also showed a concept for a phone with technology similar to the Motorola phone, which is a completely foldable phone, with the possibility of using it as a bracelet around the wrist.
↩ Watch a video of the Motorola foldable phone
– Barbie phone from HMD
HMD (the maker of Nokia phones) announced a foldable mobile phone in cooperation with Mattel, which is behind the Barbie brand. It is a traditional, non-smart phone in pink with automatic buttons. While the company did not announce any details about the specifications or price, it said that it would provide the phone. Later this summer 2024.
– Xiaomi 14 Ultra
During MWC 2024, Xiaomi revealed its new flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, which has reserved a place on the list of the best smartphones in 2024, and it is the phone that comes equipped with a Qualcomm processor. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 The most powerful Android phone, with a 5000 mAh battery and support for 90W ultra-fast charging.
The new Xiaomi 14 Ultra phone focuses on providing a distinctive photography experience for users in cooperation with Leica, based on multiple rear cameras, including a camera with a large 1-inch sensor with a variable lens aperture.
– Honor Magic 6 Pro
Honor also unveiled its new smartphone, Honor Magic 6 Pro, which is a phone that offers the user the strongest specifications that make it one of the best Android phones in 2024, including reliance on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 processor, with a large AMOLED screen with a frequency of 120. Hz and the presence of a large battery. The Honor Magic 6 Pro also offers a distinctive photography experience based on the presence of three rear cameras, the main one with a resolution of 108 megapixels, another ULTRAWIDE with a resolution of 50 megapixels, and a telephoto camera with a resolution of 64 megapixels.
Honor Magic 6 Pro works with the new MagicOS 8.0 interface based on Android, which is the interface completely enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which Honor says is the first interface based on predicting the user’s intentions to provide the best experience when interacting with the phone, in addition to supporting the open source linguistic artificial intelligence model LlaMA. 2 directly on the phone, allowing many features Generative artificial intelligence Such as creating and summarizing content, answering inquiries, etc.
Honor Magic 6 Pro is available in Europe at a price starting at about 1,200 euros.
– Xiaomi electric car Xiaomi SU7 EV
Xiaomi was not content with just revealing new smartphones, as it gave us the first look at its new electric car, the Xiaomi SU7 EV, a car that features an elegant and sporty design with blue paint, and which Xiaomi says is capable of reaching a speed of 60 miles per hour from zero in 2.78 minutes. Just a second, depending on its specially designed electric motor. Xiaomi also says that the SU7 provides a travel distance of up to 470 miles per charge, with the possibility of using larger batteries that provide up to 700 miles, with ultra-fast charging that provides a distance of 317 miles when charging for only 15 minutes.
– Samsung Galaxy Smart Ring
Samsung had displayed a smart ring called the Galaxy Ring in conjunction with the announcement Galaxy S24 Ultra Earlier last January, but it did not provide any additional details at the time, which changed during MWC 2024, as the South Korean company provided a trial and preview of the smart ring, which provides health and fitness tracking features, including sleep tracking and heart rate monitoring. And even women's health factors such as tracking the menstrual cycle and fertility, which are features similar to those provided by smart watches, but with a smaller and lighter device.
– OnePlus Watch 2 smart watch
During MWC 24, OnePlus announced its new smart watch, OnePlus Watch 2, with… Wear OS 4 From Google, it is a watch that offers a distinctive design and comes equipped with two chips and provides up to 100 hours of normal use before needing to recharge again. The new watch from OnePlus will be available on March 2, 2024, at a price starting from about 300 US dollars.
– Lenovo laptop with a transparent screen
One of the most prominent innovative devices at MWC 2024 was the laptop computer presented by Lenovo, which has a transparent screen that can be seen or viewed from behind it. Although the device is still a concept from the Chinese company, the device presented by Lenovo has The 17.3-inch transparent Micro-LED display can see what's directly behind it, allowing creators to blend virtual creations with the real world, according to Lenovo.
