The Mobile World Congress (MWC) returns one more year to Barcelonawhere it will host the latest developments in the technology sector between the days February 27 and March 2with the addition of the 4 Years From Now (4YFN) congress to the main venue.
This year’s edition will be held at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via venue, located in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), and will feature more than 1,000 speakers and 2,000 exhibitors and sponsors, including Dow Jones, Accenture, Microsoft y Huawei. The latter, moreover, will be the exhibitor that will occupy more space in the congress50% higher than in previous years.
The novelty of this meeting is the incorporation of the 4YFN congress for emerging companies, which in previous editions was held in the Montjuïc venue and this year will occupy pavilion 8.1 of Gran Via.
under the motto ‘Velocity. Unleashing Tomorrow’s technology today’, (‘Speed. Unleashing tomorrow’s technology today’)MWC 2023 will be the setting where the main companies in the technology and telecommunications sector will share their innovations in mobility, network and sustainability technologies.
The presentations began this Saturday, February 25, with passes for the press and live broadcasts, two days before the official opening of the fair. This is the case of HMD, which will share the latest news from the Nokia telephone brand on this day.
He Sunday, February 26, it is the turn of Xiaomi, which will present the Xiaomi 13 series of ‘smartphones’ globally and the Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro watch. It will also have a TCL presentation, in which it will announce more members of its TCL 40 Series family of ‘smartphones’, as already announced in January at CES 2023.
He first official day of MWC 2023, Monday, February 27the new Honor Magic 5 and MagicVs smartphones, the latest in ZTE connectivity, the new cybersecurity solutions and the Kaspersky Cyber Immunity ecosystem will be announced.
He Tuesday 28, Nokia will hold a ‘keynote’ on ‘The exponential potential of networks’, by the company’s president and CEO, Pekka Lundmark. On this day, realme will present its new flagship, realme GT3, and ZTE its new mobile devices, including the Nubia Pad 3D tablet. And the March 1, the penultimate day of the fair, it is the turn of Sony, which will present the Bravia XR family of televisions.
Apart from the presentations with date and time, the technology firms will have their respective ‘stands’, where they will show attendees their most recent innovations, in exhibitors and with demonstrations. It is the case of OnePluswhich has already anticipated that it will take to MWC 2023 the smartphone that it has baptized as OnePlus 11 Concept. also of Oppowhich will show the glasses of assisted reality OPPO Air Glass 2 which it announced in December, and the Bullitt Group, which will bring its new devices for satellite communication to Barcelona.
In the case of telecommunications companies, Telefónica will have demonstrations focused on the conversion of networks into interoperable platforms, smart agriculture, its holographic telepresence system, the metaverse and industry 4.0.
Vodafone, for its part, will carry out 19 technological demonstrations at the show for digital products and services that help accelerate the green transition, including an Extreme E electric SUV and a real drone that flies in the metaverse. It will also show a construction site signaling cone with geolocation developed together with Grupo Erum.
Cellnex will present its ‘Augmented Towerco’ industrial model that extends to the sharing of active equipment (RAN sharing) and will show the assets adjacent to the tower with concrete examples of the deployment of neutral infrastructures.
While Orange will allow Immersive Now users visit a virtual reproduction of its ‘stand’ to see the demos there and access the 360 camera located in the venue that will broadcast live what happens at this great technological event. He will also share a use case for 5G technology in the metaverse.