What to anticipate at MWC 2025 from Samsung, TCL, and extra

In lower than two weeks, Cell World Congress will kick off in Barcelona, and remind us all that telephones can nonetheless be thrilling. Nicely, hopefully.

The world’s premier cellular business occasion, MWC was damage fairly badly in the course of the COVID pandemic, and it even went away completely in 2020. Nevertheless it’s been slowly returning to type ever since, and this 12 months is poised to be fairly attention-grabbing.

MWC 2025: What, the place and when

The MWC, or Cell World Congress, is a big cellular business occasion held yearly in Barcelona, sometimes with greater than 100 thousand guests. It is basically an infinite enterprise assembly for cellular business people, however lots of cell phone makers and shopper electronics corporations take the stage in Barcelona’s large Fira Gran Through venue to announce new merchandise, and that is the place we are available.

Right here at Mashable, we have been overlaying MWC for 15 years, and we’ll be there in individual as soon as once more to sift by all the new telephones and devices and report again on probably the most attention-grabbing ones.

This 12 months, MWC is held from March 3 to March 6 (Monday to Thursday). However some bulletins sometimes come one or two days forward of the particular occasion, so keep tuned for information on Saturday and Sunday.

By the way in which, if you happen to’re in Barcelona and wish to attend the MWC as a daily customer, you are able to do so: Tickets for the occasion begin from 989 euros ($1,028), and may be purchased right here.

MWC 2025: What to anticipate

Xiaomi

Prior to now couple of years, Xiaomi has taken the lead at MWC, being one of many largest smartphone makers to launch their flagship gadgets in the course of the occasion. This 12 months, the corporate’s received an occasion scheduled for Sunday, and we strongly suspect we’ll see the corporate’s new flagship for Europe. This may probably be the Xiaomi 15, which has already launched in China, but it surely’s attainable that we see a extra highly effective variant, too.

If the Xiaomi 15 Extremely does make an look, you’ll be able to count on it to be extra digital camera than telephone, with monster specs throughout and a distinct design from the common Xiaomi 15.

Nothing

There aren’t any enormous surprises right here, as Nothing has already despatched out invitations for the Telephone (3a) (that is Nothing’s extra reasonably priced sequence of telephones). We will as soon as once more count on to see {a partially} see-through, cleverly designed Android telephone that is good worth for the cash.

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The one thriller right here is whether or not the corporate will even launch one thing else in the course of the occasion; the official invite is for “Phone (3a) Series,” so maybe we’ll see greater than variant?

Samsung

Will Samsung have folks in Barcelona for the MWC? Completely. However will the corporate have a giant occasion there? In all probability not, as we’ve not seen a lot in manner of invitations, bulletins, teasers, or leaks.

Nonetheless, the corporate at all times makes certain it brings one thing new to the MWC. Final 12 months, we have got our first glimpse of the Samsung Galaxy Ring. This 12 months, the gadget everybody needs to see is the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, the tremendous slim new flagship which was teased again in January; we’re not holding our breath for that one, but it surely’s a risk.

Honor

Honor has an occasion scheduled for Sunday, March 2, and we presume the corporate’s going to indicate new devices in Barcelona.

Final 12 months, Honor launched the Magic6 Professional and the Honor MagicBook Professional 16 laptop computer.

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This 12 months, nonetheless, the corporate is about to unveil one thing referred to as the Honor Alpha Plan, and no matter it’s, it’s going to have quite a bit to do with AI.

TCL

China’s TCL at all times has a presence in Barcelona, and it sometimes brings a ton of recent telephones and tablets to the present. We count on to see extra of these snazzy NXTPAPER telephones, that are as straightforward on the eyes as e-readers, however as succesful as common telephones.

Nokia (HMD World)

Ever for the reason that Nokia model was acquired by HMD World, the corporate retains returning to MWC to scratch our nostalgia itch with a legendary Nokia do-over, and launch a few reasonably priced telephones on the aspect as nicely. We’re unsure what HMD’s received cooking for 2025, however we’ll be there in Barcelona to search out out.

The corporate has an occasion scheduled for March 2, so count on to see some new Nokias on the date.

Lenovo

Lenovo is the king of bizarre laptops. Final 12 months, the corporate introduced a clear laptop computer to Barcelona, and whereas we weren’t fairly satisfied that the see-through bit was helpful, it certain as heck was cool to take a look at.

This 12 months, rumors say Lenovo will unveil the ThinkBook Flip AI, a laptop computer with a big, foldable show. Now that is one thing we may put to good use.

Lenovo’s subsidiary Motorola additionally tends to deliver cool stuff to Barcelona yearly. In 2024, it was this flexible phone-that’s-also-a-bracelet thingie, so we’re fairly hyped to see what that firm’s been engaged on since.

MWC 2025: The rest?

Oh, sure. The MWC is a high-tech occasion with tons of stuff like robots, automobiles, and AI-related bulletins. Actually, we wager that each single firm that is exhibiting will point out the phrases “artificial intelligence” at the very least as soon as, if not seventy hundred instances. Final 12 months, we have seen some actually cool stuff, together with Xiaomi’s CyberDog 2 that may do backflips, a flexible Motorola telephone, and MediaTek’s significantly spectacular AI picture era demo. We count on to see extra cool devices like these this 12 months, too.

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