Mobile World Congress 2015 will be starting tomorrow in Barcelona, Spain and at this year’s show we expect lot of big smartphones, tons of wearable gadgets, and digital payment systems that capitalise on smartphones, tablets and wearables.
MWC was all about conferences where leaders from technology companies delivered key notes and experts talked about mobile technologies, but over the years the technology show has become world’s largest event dedicated to the mobile and telecommunications industries specifically catering to new smartphone and tablet launches.
Here we have a run down of smartphones, tablets and wearables that we might see at the tech show.
Keynotes
The agenda is already set for the MWC 2015, and the biggest speaker at this year’s show is none other than Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He is expected to talk about his Internet.org initiative that aims to connect the next 1 billion people to the internet via subsidized data and affordable handsets.
Senior Vice President, Android, Chrome and Apps at Google, Sundar Pichai, will be talking about Google’e future plans and rumour has it that he will be talking about Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone and could possibly even launch the device at the show.
Microsoft
Microsoft hasn’t been a regular at MWC, but the company has sent out invites to a special event on March 2 and we anticipate launch of a new premium handset powered by its latest mobile operating system.
Samsung
A regular at the MWC, Samsung is expected to show off its Galaxy S6 – a premium handset that has been rumoured for quite some time now. Said to sport a premium outer shell hued from metal and glass instead of plastic, the Galaxy S6 is likely to feature an innovative display and that too possibly a curved one.
HTC
There have been rumours that the Taiwanese company is eyeing the launch of its latest flagship smartphone ‘HTC One M9’, a tablet and even a smartwatch.
Hot topics
Mobile payments is going to be on the agenda considering that CEO of MasterCard, Ajay Banga, is going to deliver a keynote. Further, with Apple already into this segment, thanks to its ApplePay, competitors including Samsung are likely to show their competing products at MWC 2015. Chances are we will see an updated version of Google Wallet.
Wearables, the next generation
Alongside new smartphones with 5-inch+ displays, many companies this year will also be showing off wearables and in particular new smartwatches. HTC is expected to unveil its first wearable at the event and Huawei also has something up its sleeve
