MWC 2026: all the phones, gadgets, and announcements from Barcelona

The Verge is heading to Barcelona, Spain, for Mobile World Congress, the biggest telephone amusement of the year.

CES whitethorn predominate the headlines erstwhile it comes to TVs, machine components, and AI inanity, but for each things mobile MWC has it beat. Since it’s a planetary show, that includes each mode of announcements of phones, tablets, and wearables that won’t needfully merchandise successful the US.

Xiaomi has already teased a European motorboat for its 17 and 17 Ultra flagships, Honor is promising not lone its Robot Phone but a afloat pivot to humanoid robotics, and Nothing is astir definite to driblet much details connected its Phone 4A up of a planned London launch connected March 5th.

The likes of Samsung and Google volition beryllium determination too, but mostly to speech astir the already-announced 10A and S26 models, portion Apple is launching something during the aforesaid week arsenic MWC, but not really successful Barcelona.

We’ll besides beryllium looking retired for oddities. Last twelvemonth featured camera telephone concepts with detachable lenses, a Lenovo laptop with a folding screen, and an Infinix handset with a solar sheet successful its back. We’ll beryllium hoping this twelvemonth gets conscionable arsenic weird.

Keep this leafage bookmarked for each the news, commentary, and archetypal looks from the amusement floor.

• Xiaomi’s magnetic powerfulness slope is incredibly thin
• Honor’s caller MagicPad 4 is the world’s thinnest Android tablet
• Tecno is doing a modular telephone (again).
• Taara Beam provides 25Gbps connectivity implicit invisible beams of light
• Honor is pivoting to robots.