MWC 2025: All of the information from Samsung, Nothing, Lenovo, Xiaomi and extra

Cell World Congress is going down in Barcelona this week, providing producers a possibility to point out off new gear without having to carry their very own splashy occasion. To this point, we have realized about some new laptops and telephones, in addition to upcoming AI updates to Android and an web connectivity announcement from Meta.

Here is a take a look at everything announced at Mobile World Congress that caught our eye. We’ll replace this story all through the week.

Lenovo

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Among the many bigger-name producers, Lenovo has arguably had the busiest MWC to date. The corporate has revealed an entire bunch of laptops, together with upgraded ThinkPads and a number of other intriguing idea fashions.

The ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 has a design that’s extra aligned with the convertible format of the Yoga lineup than a typical ThinkPad. The 14-inch machine may be geared up with a 400-nit WUXGA contact show. Different ThinkPads are getting spec upgrades, whereas Lenovo claims the brand new ThinkPad X13 Gen 6 has “one of many lightest ThinkPad designs ever.” The corporate has a contemporary slate of laptops with generative AI capabilities as properly.

A few of Lenovo’s ideas have definitely caught our consideration. It’s a bummer that the corporate doesn’t at the moment plan to show the Yoga Solar PC Concept right into a business gadget. Due to the photo voltaic cells on the casing, the laptop computer can absorb sufficient power from the solar in 20 minutes to play an hour of movies. As little as 0.3 watts of sunshine is sufficient to juice up the battery. Whereas solar-powered laptops aren’t precisely new, the Yoga Photo voltaic PC feels polished. Here is hoping Lenovo does extra with the notion sooner or later.

The Lenovo Yoga Solar PC Concept features built-in photovoltaic cells that can add an hour's worth of video playback after just 20 minutes in the sun.

As well as, Lenovo confirmed off some conceptual display accessories for a ThinkBook laptop computer. There’s an eight-inch display that attaches to the facet magnetically that will help you, for example, sustain with notifications and widgets. The Magic Bay Twin Show Idea provides a 13.3-inch panel to both facet of the principle show. There’s additionally a slim second show that is designed to sit down above your laptop computer display and supply fast entry to issues just like the time, climate, notifications, a spotlight mode timer, an AI assistant and notifications.

A photo showing the 18-inch screen on Lenovo's codename Flip concept in its full glory.

On high of all of that, Lenovo supplied a take a look at a brand new prototype laptop computer with a versatile show. Constructing on the tech the corporate used within the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, the ThinkBook codename Flip AI PC Proof of concept (to offer its full identify) has a fold-out display. This enables Lenovo to double the panel’s measurement from 13 inches to 18.1 inches. The ThinkBook Rollable’s show, alternatively, can lengthen to 16.7 inches. Once more, Lenovo would not at the moment plan to launch a business model of this fold-out laptop computer, but it surely’s an attention-grabbing thought.

Samsung

The primary MWC information from Samsung this yr is the company’s latest midrange and budget phones. The Galaxy A56 has a bigger display than its predecessor at 6.7 inches, but it surely’s thinner too at 7.44mm vs. 8.2mm. There’s now a small bump the place the amount and energy buttons are — a tweak that we really feel makes the A56 simpler to deal with.

Samsung has switched up the digicam array within the A56. On the entrance, there is a lower-res 12MP lens. On the opposite facet, you may discover an upgraded 12MP ultrawide, 50MP foremost sensor and a 5MP macro lens. The A56 has a bunch of AI-powered digicam and picture modifying options, similar to enhanced topic detection in portrait mode and an object eraser.

Pre-orders are open within the UK for the Galaxy A56, which prices $499/£499. It would hit the UK on March 19, however of us within the US must wait till “later this yr” for it.

Samsung additionally revealed the Galaxy A36 5G and Galaxy A26 5G. Each units have a 120Hz, 6.7-inch show with brightness of as much as 1,200 nits. Additionally they share an IP67 score and 5,000mAh battery with the A56.

Nevertheless, the bottom fashions of every solely have 6GB of RAM (in contrast with the A56’s 12GB). As well as, the A36 has the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor as an alternative of the Exynos 1580 that the A56 boasts, whereas the A26 has a Exynos 1380 chipset.

Xiaomi

Sadly, Xiaomi would not have plans to convey a handset it confirmed off at MWC to the US. That is an actual pity, as a result of no different firms are promoting telephones fairly just like the Xiaomi 15 Ultra within the nation today.

Xiaomi teamed up with Leica to make a smartphone that leans closely into pictures. The digicam array features a 1-inch 50-megapixel Sony foremost sensor, an f/2.2 50MP ultrawide cam, a 50MP midrange lens with a 70mm focal size and a 200MP periscope array with a 100mm focal size — that equates to a 4.7x optical zoom. Some preset Leica filters assist to tie the 2 manufacturers’ knowhow collectively.

That is not all that could be attention-grabbing to cellular snappers. Xiaomi’s separate Pictures package consists of an add-on digicam grip with a bodily shutter button, an adjustable dial and devoted video button. You will have the choice to connect a typical 67mm filter adapter to a case as properly — in different phrases, a number of the gear you would possibly use on a devoted digicam is appropriate with the Extremely 15 as a part of this setup.

Furthermore, the Extremely 15 has a 6.7-inch AMOLED show with 120Hz refresh charge and as much as 3,200 nits of brightness that will help you get a great take a look at your captures. Plus, in contrast to another Chinese language telephones (like Huawei’s), Xiaomi helps Google companies in HyperOS 2, which is an Android pores and skin. The Extremely 15 begins at about €1,499 (round $1,572).

Android

Talking of Android, Google introduced two new AI-powered features for the operating system at MWC. The Dwell Video perform, which Google first previewed at I/O 2024, means that you can share what your cellphone’s digicam sees with Gemini so you possibly can ask the chatbot questions in regards to the footage.

The brand new screensharing perform works in the same approach. You possibly can ask Gemini questions on no matter’s in your cellphone or pill’s show.

In the event that they work in addition to marketed, these options may very well be a boon for accessibility. Google will first provide them to Gemini Superior subscribers beginning later this month. These with a $20 per thirty days Google One AI Premium membership, which is included with some Verizon plans, have entry to Gemini Superior.

Nothing

Samsung wasn’t the one smartphone maker of word to point out off two new mid-range units at MWC. Nothing debuted its Phone 3a Pro and Phone 3a on the occasion — despite the fact that it has but to unleash the Cellphone 3.

The 3a Professional has a beefier digicam module (fairly actually because the gadget is about 10 grams heavier than the 3a). It comprises a 50MP telephoto sensor with a 3x optical zoom; a 50MP main sensor with f/1.88 lens and dual-pixel part detection auto-focus (PDAF); and an ultrawide 8MP sensor with a 120-degree subject of view. The handset has a telemacro mode too. As for the 3a, that boasts a foremost 50MP digicam with single-pixel PDAF, however the different two sensors are the identical as on the 3a Professional.

The cameras are the principle distinction between the 2 telephones, which each have a 6.77-inch AMOLED LTPS show with a 120Hz refresh charge and as much as 1,300 nits of brightness. The telephones have a 5,000mAh battery with help for 50W quick charging, they usually run on a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset.

The units have Nothing’s multipurpose Important Key, a bodily button that may take screenshots and make it easier to file voice notes. The telephones even have some generative AI options, similar to the flexibility to transcribe stated voice notes and describe what’s in screenshots and pictures.

As ordinary, Nothing is initially providing these units within the US by means of a beta program. Cellphone 3a pre-orders are open now and the $379 handset ships on March 11. That is the date when pre-orders for the Cellphone 3a Professional go stay. The $459 cellphone may be in your fingers on March 25.