MWC 2025 has arrived once again taking place in Barcelona, and a crack-team of TechRadar journalists are onsite to bring you all the latest consumer news from the big tech showcase.
Where once MWC was very smartphone-focussed, it’s evolved into a bigger tech showcase, with home devices, robots, cars and more all popping up across the expansive halls of the Fira.
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Don’t expect to hear any big news from the likes of Samsung or Google, but get ready for a slew of interesting products and developments that’ll likely set the scene for the tech world for 2025 and beyond.
So you’re in the right place for all the news and view coming out of MWC 2025. Read on.
Hello! Roland Moore-Colyer, Managing Editor of Mobile Computing here to take you on this live blog journey as it kicks off.
I’m not at MWC this year, with fellow but we have a selection of TechRadar-ians over in Barcelona to soak up all that MWC has to offer. So let’s get into it.
Honor embraces AI hook, line and sinker
So first up we have a report from Phones Editor Axel Metz on how phone-maker Honor has rebranded itself as an “AI device ecosystem company”. That’s a bit odd but there’s apparently three steps the company plans to take in order to deliver “purpose-built, human-centric AI designed to maximize human potential.”
My read on this is basically Honor will go hard on AI-based tech, and we can expect its new products to contain a host of smart features. For a better and deeper lowdon, I’d suggest reading Mr Metz full report: Honor rebrands as an ‘AI device ecosystem company’ and commits to developing a ‘super intelligent’ smartphone.
So here’s an odd turn up for the books: actor Drew Barrymore appeared at an HMD showcase to tease Project Wildflower, which is a mission led by the Nokia brand to tackle people spending too much time on their phones.
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