Mobile World Congress 2022: What to expect from the huge mobile expo

(Pocket-lint) - Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the biggest mobile lawsuit of the year. The amusement sees the motorboat of galore of the year's apical smartphones, smartwatches and tablets, arsenic good arsenic seeing the emergence of the hottest caller trends successful mobile.

Outside of the user sphere, it besides draws successful galore of the manufacture heavyweights to speech astir the aboriginal of mobile, similar 5G, mobile hardware, VR and different associated technologies.

Here's everything you request to cognize astir the show.

When is Mobile World Congress?

• MWC Barcelona: 28 February-3 March 2022

In 2022 Mobile World Congress is readying to instrumentality to its regular clip slot successful the calendar - that's astatine the extremity of February. In 2021 it was delayed until June and fewer companies attended the show.

While the authoritative dates are 28 February to 3 March, these are the dates that the MWC league docket runs - often the media launches are successful the preceeding days, the 26-27 February. Of course, everything mightiness beryllium antithetic due to the fact that it's 2022, but usually the large announcements are stacked towards the opening of the event.

The GSMA is readying to tally a carnal lawsuit for Mobile World Congress and we fishy attendance volition beryllium precise overmuch connected the authorities of the pandemic astatine that constituent successful time.

What launched astatine Mobile World Congress 2021?  

In immoderate mean year, determination would beryllium a bid of launches from immoderate of the starring mobile telephone manufacturers - the likes of Sony Mobile and Nokia typically usage MWC to motorboat caller devices, there's often large showcases from the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung. 

Normally we'd person a agelong database of devices, but for 2021, MWC reverted mostly to the league docket and networking opportunities the commercialized amusement offers, portion astir of the property launches didn't instrumentality place. There were immoderate announcements, however. 

Lenovo astatine MWC 2021

Lenovo timed the motorboat of a fig of devices with MWC. That included the Lenovo Yoga Tab 13, which is simply a tablet with a kickstand, truthful you tin spot however this is pitched astatine location use. There's besides a second-gen Smart Clock, with a wireless charging dock, making it the perfect bedside companion.

Samsung astatine MWC 2021

Samsung had a virtual lawsuit wherever it mostly talked astir the Galaxy ecosystem and the benefits of Samsung Knox, it's information package. But it did uncover immoderate juicy details astir One UI Watch, which is the interface that volition beryllium moving connected the adjacent Galaxy Watch, which volition besides debut the caller Wear OS it co-developed with Google. This was past launched connected the Galaxy Watch 4.

Qualcomm astatine MWC 2021

Although Qualcomm wasn't astatine the show, the institution timed the announcement of the Snapdragon 888+ to coincide with the show. We besides cognize this caller hardware is going to look successful the forthcoming Honor Magic 3, with Asus, Vivo, Xiaomi and Motorola each confirming plans to usage the hardware. It offers a assistance implicit the existent Snapdragon 888 with a caller AI motor and boosted modem.

Brands that withdrew

Here's a speedy database of the companies that withdrew from the show, giving a bully thought of who mightiness (or mightiness not) instrumentality successful 2022:

• Samsung
• Sony Mobile
• Nokia
• Google
• Qualcomm
• Ericsson
• Facebook

There are immoderate large names here: Sony and Nokia usually motorboat devices astatine the show. Samsung usually has thing caller to amusement off. Google usually dominates a immense country betwixt the amusement halls, portion Qualcomm ever has a large stand. 

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Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 2 November 2016.