ARTICLE – Rugged phones have spent the last five years getting tougher without getting more interesting. Thicker glass, bigger batteries, higher IP ratings, all of it useful, none of it surprising. Ulefone walked into MWC 2026 in Barcelona last week and broke that pattern with a phone that pulls apart, and that’s what makes the […]
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ARTICLE – The physical keyboard on a smartphone isn’t dead. It just spent a decade in hiding while the rest of the industry chased bigger screens and thinner bezels. Unihertz has been quietly building QWERTY phones since its original Titan launched with a Passport-style square display, and the lineup has attracted a loyal following of
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ARTICLE – The night before MWC officially opened, AGIBOT brought a robot to the Palacio Real de Pedralbes in Barcelona. The crowd at Showstoppers had come to see new gadgets. What they got was a 131 centimeter machine performing a martial arts sequence, then hip hop choreography, then dropping into a full split on the
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The wireless earbuds market doesn’t take breaks. Over the past seven months, a fresh wave of releases has landed from brands that clearly weren’t content to coast on last year’s lineup. From Apple’s latest Pro revision to a sub-$100 pair that punches absurdly above its price, there’s something here for just about every kind of
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There’s a phone at MWC 2026 that can start an actual fire. OUKITEL’s WP63 hides an electric igniter behind a tiny trap door on the top of the phone, and that’s only one of five products the rugged device maker brought to Barcelona last week. The full lineup spans phones, a tablet, a laptop, and
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Every fitness wearable on the market tracks the same handful of metrics. Heart rate, step count, blood oxygen, sleep stages. The list hasn’t changed in five years, and most of it measures what’s happening inside your body while completely ignoring what’s leaving it. Your sweat carries data that no wristband or ring has figured out
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Anker pulled the curtain on the Soundcore Space 2, a new pair of over-ear headphones that launched at MWC 2026 in Barcelona with a $129.99 price tag and an April 21 release date. That’s $30 more than the Space One they’re replacing, and for that premium, Anker is promising something absurd: 70 hours of battery
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The line between a travel watch and a fitness tracker barely exists anymore. Modern smartwatches navigate unfamiliar cities, track trail runs at altitude, monitor your sleep across time zones, and still have battery left when you land. They’ve become the one piece of tech that earns its spot on your wrist no matter where you’re
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Xpanceo walked into MWC 2026 in Barcelona with something that makes smart glasses look like a halfway measure. The Dubai-based deep tech company brought five working smart contact lens prototypes to booth 6F16, each one solving a different piece of the invisible computing puzzle. The most consumer-ready version combines a micro-OLED display with continuous glucose
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Most people carry their phone like a life preserver. Pull it out at dinner to snap a photo, at a meeting to jot a note, on a hike to capture a view you’ll scroll past in three weeks and never look at again. The assumption baked into every piece of mobile tech is that capturing
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