What will we see at MWC 2018 event?

A few days away from the launch of one of the largest conferences in the world of mobile phones MWC 2018 – Mobile World Congress, which brings us many new innovations and awaited phones. The most important group of phones are of the biggest companies, of course, such as Samsung, LG, Sony and others.

Like every year, this conference misses the presence of Apple, which is not like the other companies that show its products during this conference. but Apple organizes itself a special conference held every year.

In this article, we will learn about the most important expectations and rumors of the conference and the most important phones that we will see and be able to own after the end of MWC. But first, let me write an overview of the MWC conference and its history.  MWC or Mobile World Congress is the largest mobile industry exhibition in the world, and recently also contains smart watch announcements that have joined the smart consumer market in recent years and have become widely distributed, as well as many innovations that work with intelligence technologies such as Mobile phones and 5G data transfer technology.

The conference was initially known as GSM World Congress in relation to the second-generation mobile communications protocol, and later was called 3GSM World, a name sometimes called at the moment.

Tens of thousands of people from more than 200 different countries from around the world are attending the conference. It takes place at the Fira Gran Via venue in Barcelona, ​​ “When will the conference be held?” This year’s conference will start on the 26th of this month and end on March 1st. However, there are many news and press releases issued during the week preceding the start of the conference, which you will find minute by minute on the Samma3a Tech site.So, I have introduced the MWC conference and its history. I will go on to the following lines to what’s expected to be announced during the conference by the major mobile phone companies including Samsung, LG, Sony, Huawei, Alcatel and others.  A few days ago, the Korean giant Samsung announced that they will be organizing a conference for the Samsung Galaxy S9, which will of course come with the Samsung Galaxy S9+ as usual. At their special conference known as the Galaxy Unpacked Event. This special conference will begin on February 25th, one day before the MWC begins. Which means that the MWC will be free of the second most important phones of the top category of Samsung after the Samsung Galaxy Note.

However, although it was not formally launched during the MWC conference, we all know it is the phone that will catch the eye like every year as we used from the Korean company.

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The most important feature of the Galaxy S9 is, of course, the Infinite Display screen, as well as its random memory, which is expected to be at least 6GB, and other features to which we will write an article to review the two phones here on Samma3a Tech.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 was also expected to be announced, but rumors are almost certain that it will be launched at the IFA conference in September.

Samsung’s attendance at the MWC conference this year will not be so strong, but it will certainly be the strongest one day before it begins.

At the moment, you can preorder the Galaxy S9 if you live in the UK and we are waiting to announce availability and prices after the Galaxy Unpacked Event.

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LG usually uses the MWC conference to announce a range of phones, but this year will not be as we used to, according to the company announced that it will redesign the series again. There have been several reports that we will not see the LG G7 during this MWC but is expected to launch either at a separate conference in March or at the IFA 2018 conference in September.

However, this is not all. There have been reports that the company intends to introduce the LG V30s at the next MWC, which will feature the Vision AI technology as well as 256GB internal memory.

All the possibilities exist so far for LG, but what is already confirmed is what Jo Seong-Jin, CEO of LG Electronics, said when he spoke at the CES 2018 conference:

We will unveil new smartphones when it is needed. But we will not launch it just because other rivals do.”

Sony will not stop releasing two or even three phones in February each year at the MWC.

Sony was very late in launching the bezel-less phones and of course the company is critical because it was once one of Samsung’s biggest competitors alongside Apple, and we all know that Samsung has gone through two generations of bezel-less phones, a step that we all hope Sony will take.

The devices expected to be announced during the conference are the Sony Xperia XZ2 and the Xperia XZ Pro, the latest phone expected to be the first Sony phones that have a dual camera in the back and an 18: 9 aspect ratio.

The OLED display is also expected to be included in those phones, and it will be the first time we see this technology in a mobile phone from Sony.

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Some rumors also added that the phone will contain a fingerprint scanner and is likely to be built into the screen.[/td_block_text_with_title][td_block_text_with_title custom_title=”Motorola at the MWC 2018″ header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_color=”#5fa545″]According to forecasts, Motorola, which recently acquired by Lenovo, will launch three new phones, Moto E, Moto G and Moto X during the MWC 2018 conference.

So far, none of these have been confirmed, but the probabilities of their existence are so high.

In addition, the updated version of Virtual Daydream VR is expected to be announced under the name Mirage Solo.

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According to other rumors, Moto Z3 and Moto Z3 Play are expected to be announced later this year.Since Nokia’s return to the cell phones race after its disappearance when Microsoft bought it when HMD Global acquired it, it provides us with high quality phones and serves all categories.

This year’s MWC is expected to be where the first devices we can call Nokia’s Flagship device will come from Nokia since HMD Global acquired them.

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The phone is expected to be Nokia 9 and rumors say it will be released with a 5.5-inch QHD OLED screen, and a waterproof metal body.

The device is also expected to be characterized by images leaked to him with very tiny bezels and will have a dual camera in the back and forward.The Chinese Huawei is used to being strong during the MWC conferences. Last year, Huawei Watch 2 came to us at MWC 2017, so the first and most powerful prediction is that Huawei Watch 3 will be announced at MWC 2018.

There have not been many reports or rumors about what the company will announce at this year’s conference, but these predictions are based on what has already happened years before.

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The new Huawei watch is expected to have a feature you can control without having to touch the screen itself; Such as drawing a letter on your hand to appear on the screen, or pressing twice on your wrist to get started and other things that can be done with this sensor-based feature.

This is for Huawei smart watch. For mobile phones, Huawei P11 and P11 Pro are expected to be announced, but this is a weak prospect because there are no reports or rumors but based on what the company did at MWC 2017 when it unveiled Huawei P10 and P10 Pro.

At the same time, there are some reports predicting that the next phone will be called the P20 and P20 Plus, and that this phone will contain three cameras, but the speculation is still far to the moment, but who knows, the three-camera phone will certainly be in soon.HTC’s phone division recently acquired by Google, and of course not too late on the recent announcement of the Pixel 2 phone, so a new HTC phone is not expected to be released this MWC.

But it is still expected to be announced on the HTC U11 Eyes, which was announced that it’s being manufactured in China at the moment, a phone that will come with two 5-megapixel front-facing cameras and has a Snapdragon 652 eight-core processor.As usual, Google’s appearance and logo at least in MWC is essential because it is of course the developer and owner of the Android operating system for almost all of the phones announced during the conference.

Google, like Amazon, is focusing more and more on the spread of its personal assistant and its supporting devices through what we saw at CES 2018 when many new Google Assisted TV screens were introduced, as well as non-Google Home speakers.

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Rumors says that the company is releasing updated versions of its Google Home devices, but this looks unlikely because it has not been too long since the company released Google Home Mini and Google Home Max.Xiaomi will appear this year at the MWC but without announcing its flagship phone, Xiaomi Mi7, according to rumors expected to be launched in April.

At the same time, the company is expected to announce Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, which is similar to Mi Mix 2S but will contain the Snapdragon 845 processor.

The announcement of the Chinese company’s late arrival, but it’s known that besides MI Mix 2, they are currently working on the Xiaomi Mi Max 3, a middle-class phone with a very long battery life as we used to from this small-age company. The parent company of the BlackBerry TCL Group has confirmed that it will launch at least two phones from the BlackBerry series this year.

Unfortunately, we do not yet know what the company is doing and whether it will announce either of them at MWC 2018.

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However, it is expected that if the company is present at the conference, it may announce either KeyTwo or KeyOne 2. For the latter, the rumors say that it has a Snapdragon 660 processor and 6 GB of random memory.It is not too long since the Qualcomm US chip manufacturer announced many devices at the CES 2018 but they are still on the list of the companies expected to appear at the MWC, not only as partners for mobile manufacturers such as Samsung, which will release its Samsung Galaxy S9 with the Snapdragon 845, but It is also expected to announce its first audio product, the QCC5100 Low-Power Bluetooth chip.

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At the MWC 2018 conference, ZTE is expected to launch a new version of the Axon series, the latest of which is the Axon 7, but the rumors about this version which expected to be Axon 9 not so much that we are sure to be on the MWC.

What is almost certain is the launch of the ZTE Blade V9 during the conference, studded with metal and composite glass, and of course the most common feature of this year; the dual-camera.Asus, which specializes in the production and manufacture of powerful mobile phones for mobile games fans, appears to be on schedule with the release of the new version of ZenFone 5 which, according to leaks, is similar in design to the iPhone X with dual back camera and USB Type-C charging port as well as random memory capacity of 6 GB.

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In the previous lines, I have given you a set of expectations based on a lot of criteria, whether predictions, speculation or leaks of what might be announced during the MWC 2018 conference which will start in Barcelona a few days later> This year’s conference will miss many of the powerful announcements we have long awaited from companies such as Huawei, HTC, LG, Sony, which will launch mid-class phones, and even Samsung, which has just announced its Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 + To be launched a day before the start of MWC. Nevertheless, the conference remains one of the biggest events in the smart phone industry, especially Android smartphones.

As I mentioned before, this conference will not contain any of Apple’s products, so it’s considered an Android conference as if the company that is organizing it is Google itself.

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