MWC Barcelona debuts, Huawei, Samsung and other competing AI phones

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) will be held in Barcelona, Spain on February 26. The focus of this year is undoubtedly AI mobile phones. Many major mobile phone manufacturers including Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Honor will display mobile phones with AI functions. The latest flagship phone. Among them, Honor released the first AI notebook MagicBook Pro 16 at NWC2024, equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 155H, paired with a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series notebook GPU, with functions such as smart search, AI subtitles and Magic text. Global launch is expected in the second quarter of this year.

The four-day MWC conference attracted a total of 95,000 visitors. Kester Mann, an analyst at research firm CCS Insight, said: "Telecom manufacturers in various countries have invested a lot of money in AI, not only upgrading network equipment, but also improving customer service and customer experience."

Samsung Electronics has launched its latest flagship phone Galaxy S24 in the United States, which features AI functions. In addition to using AI to query network information about objects in photos, it can also use AI to remove or move objects in photos. Regarding Chinese manufacturers, Huawei’s foldable phone Pocket S2 is very likely to make a mysterious appearance at MWC. It will be upgraded to a higher-resolution 1.5K foldable main screen, and the processor will most likely use its own Kirin 9000S chip. Xiaomi recently launched its latest flagship phone Xiaomi 14 Ultra in mainland China.

CCS Insight analyst Leo Gebbie also predicts that Apple will provide Vision Pro at the MWC venue to guide visitors through various booths. Since Vision Pro has not yet been sold in Europe, MWC is regarded as the best time to promote it.