MWC 2025: What to expect from the biggest mobile show in the world

The annual telephone fiesta, known as the Mobile World Congress, is almost ahead of us again and it is one of the most reprehensible technological events of 2025.

The mobile show is held on March 3-6 and will be on the spot in Barcelona with its colleagues Andrew Lankson and Abar Al-Sheti, checking all the launches of new products and increasing the breakthroughs that will determine mobile technologies over the year next year. I have been present and reflect the show for 11 years, I write about everything – from the first demonstration of the HTC Vive handset to Rescuing Old Nokia 3310 from Backstreet Market on the same day HMD launches update 2017 on the iconic phoneS

This year we will watch Chinese phones such as Xiaomi and Oppo to dominate MWC. “It will be an extremely strong show for them and we are expecting a very strong presence on the show’s floor,” says Ben Wood, CCS Insight’s chief analyst.

Belore players like HMD and nothing are also ready to reveal new phones that we can’t wait to handle, plus there will probably be some interesting wearable, including smart watches And Ar glasses, with a bonus laptops and headsets.

We also expect to see AI everywhere again this year, the most flavored by Google’s Gemini, with sprinkling interesting features from manufacturers on top. CNET’s own research suggest that many of you Aren’t you impressed with the AI ​​capabilities of smartphones So far. We will be alert for use and features that we think will be really exciting and transformative when it’s time to upgrade your phone.

In the meantime, here’s what we expect to see.

Phones

If there is one phone, we are especially excited to check the Mobile World Congress, this is Xiaomi 15 Ultra. The camera of Xiaomi 14 Ultra Blush us last year -This made the phone stand out in the sea of ​​otherwise similar high -end devices. Overwhelmed around the start of his heir, Xiaomi 15 Ultrawhich we expect to see discovered in MWC.

The design -oriented approach is always intriguing and we are excited to see what is offered for her event to launch on March 4th. The Nothing Phone 3A and 3A Pro rumors are likely to be the star (s) of the show and can be launched on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, which will mark a shift from the company’s partnership with MediaTek.

The next flagship phone is not expected to arrive in 2025, but only later during the year. The company launches its predecessor, Nothing phone 2As early as July 2023, so we expect the two -year intervention period to lead to some improvements. Nothing is unlikely that phone 3 will appear on MWC, but we will keep track of what to expect from the phone when it finally arrives.

Samsung had your own main phone on the phone before MWC, but that doesn’t mean we heard the last of Galaxy S25S The Barcelona event is an opportunity for the company to show its new leading series in Europe and potentially gave us a better look at S25 edge The phone was annoyed at unpacked in January.

Other telephone companies will follow a suit, with devices including the Honor Magic7 Pro and the triple distorted, double folded Huawei Mate XT Using MWC as a victory tour after more launches.

The best of the rest

MWC has always been the first for phones, but the “mobile” as a category covers many different products, from laptops to media.

One of the most exciting products to Make your full debut on MWC 2024 it was Samsung Galaxy RingS Competition in this space is heated, with companies, including URA and Ultrahuman, offering their exciting intelligent rings. The show may be the perfect place for new or well -established technology companies to enter the smart jewelry market.

In 2024, we also saw the advent of self -AI devices, including Humanely have a pine and Rabbit r1S Both generated a significant super, but it has largely fallen flat When the time comes to test them. This is the category of emerging devices is dead in the water (especially as we know AI Humane pin will stop working soon)??

“Never say never,” Wood says. “But I do not expect many of these devices because of the fact that those who were there before were spectacularly unsuccessful.”

The capabilities of these devices are largely subjected to smartphones, thanks to Samsung’s Gemini and Galaxy AI Galaxy Ai Galaxy AI improvements, he adds. “The window of opportunities for these products has evaporated somewhat.”

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An area where there is still room for growth is in spatial calculations, which we mean by smart glasses. The Oppo phone manufacturer can be one to look at in this space, and we could also see a number of smaller companies showing their technology worn by a face in MWC. This can be everything from glasses with built-in AI, microphones and cameras to glasses with a built-in digital display of some Apple Vision Pro glasses.

Over the years, we have observed dramatic growth of the number of car manufacturers of technology shows – more special CES. MWC is usually not hosting cars to the same extent, although last year Xiaomi showed an electric vehicle On the show. There is nothing to say that we should not expect to see more on these lines this year, especially with the presentation of the Qualcomm chipmaker. The company is at the heart of the integration of mobile connectivity in cars, with cases of use ranging from infotery to safety.

It is also inevitable to see a clutch of laptops, tablets and headsets appear on the show. Lenovo is ours that we have to look at in this regard-by our assessment, it was a distinctive computer manufacturer in the previous show and we want to see what’s in this path.

Ai

As it was last year, we expect AI to be everywhere on MWC – so you may be wondering what exactly is new for 2025.

So far, the most packages with AI phones tend to be leading models, but this year we should expect AI features in a wider range of devices, according to Wood. “What we will see is AI’s ability to move down the price curve,” he says. This means AI in medium -sized phones, not just more fantastic models. (Example: New $ 599 iPhone 16E This Apple has just revealed.)

Apple is constantly absent from MWC, this show unofficially belongs to Google. We look forward to seeing it everywhere, presenting all the most opportunities Twins He must offer while partnering with all the manufacturers present on the phone. The question of these companies will be how they use AI to distinguish their products when they all have access to the same package of Google features.

Samsung’s Galaxy Ai is an excellent example of this, but at MWC we expect to see a bold game from Honor as the company outlines its new Alpha Plan. In addition to a comprehensive direction for the brand, this strategy involves the creation of an open and joint ecosystem from AI-supplied devices.

As I mentioned, it is unlikely to have more independent AI devices, and more recently a continuation of the trend of incorporating AI into everything we already own. Chipmakers like Qualcomm will praise Devique’s AI virtues and hope that they will provide some exciting demonstrations to show how we can expect AI to change real and improve our technology, if not this year, then in the near future.

One of my favorite demonstrations of last year’s MWC was a partnership between Qualcomm, Brain.Ai and Deutsche TelekomWhich showed how AI can potentially replace the interface based on applications that we all know and love. This year I will watch such interesting ideas.