Every phone promises a better display. Brighter peaks, faster refresh rates, more colors than the human eye can register. None of that solves the actual problem: your eyes still burn after three chapters of a book on a phone screen. Screen fatigue comes down to design, and most phones don’t bother solving it. TCL thinks […]
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Most wearable AI devices at MWC 2026 wanted to put information in front of your eyes. Scople went the other direction entirely. Built by startup Moxiebyte, this pocket-sized gadget uses computer vision to analyze what’s happening around you in real time, from the emotional reactions of people you’re talking to, to whether you’re reaching for
A Tiny Wearable That Reads the Room and Forgets It Read More
Small tablets have been stuck for years. Apple updates the iPad Mini on its own timeline, Samsung stopped competing at the premium end of the category, and few other brands are willing to invest in pushing the compact tablet forward. The assumption is that people want either a big phone or a big tablet. That’s
Huawei Built the Tablet the iPad Mini Refuses to Be Read More
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 – You spend 10 hours a day staring at a screen, and it shows. It hits around 2 PM, sometimes earlier. Your eyes glaze over, your shoulders tighten, and your brain shifts into that foggy autopilot mode where you’re technically working but not really present. You grab another coffee. Maybe you step outside for
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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
AGIBOT’s X2 did a full split at MWC 2026 and you can already rent one Read More
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
This patch knows more about your sweat than any smartwatch Read More
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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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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Pet cameras sell a comforting lie. They let you watch your dog pace the living room while you sit in a meeting, completely unable to do anything about it. The footage is real, but the connection isn’t. You’re a spectator in your own pet’s day. Price: $89.99 (March sale; regular ~$105) Where to Buy: GlocalMe,
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Soundcore showed up to MWC 2026 with a projector that solves one of the most persistent annoyances in portable home theater: the audio situation. We got quick hands on the Nebula P1 at the show floor, and the detachable speaker concept works exactly the way you’d hope it does. The Nebula P1 is a 1080p
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Talking to AI still carries a faint whiff of weirdness. You ask a question into the void, something invisible answers back, and the whole exchange feels like filing a support ticket with a very fast typist. Samsung Display looked at that problem and decided the fix wasn’t better language models. It was a face. The
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The design house that shaped some of Ferrari’s most recognizable silhouettes just finished its first smartphone. Pininfarina, the Italian firm celebrating 95 years of work spanning supercars, architecture, and industrial design, co-developed the Infinix NOTE 60 Ultra. The phone debuted at MWC 2026 in Barcelona this week with two firsts that feel genuinely surprising from
Ferrari’s Design Studio Made a Phone That Calls via Satellite Read More
Most mid-range headphones treat battery life as a checkbox. Hit 30 hours, maybe 40, slap “all-day battery” on the box, and move on. Nothing looked at that formula and decided 135 hours on a single charge was a more interesting number to chase. That isn’t an incremental bump over the competition. It’s a different conversation
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ARTICLE – Every smart glasses maker at MWC 2026 brought the same formula. Camera next to the lenses, built-in speakers, an AI chatbot, and the ability to record whatever crosses your line of sight. XGIMI walked into Barcelona and ditched that playbook entirely. The company built its name on home projectors, and now it’s channeling
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Nothing built its entire identity on transparency. Every phone the company has released since 2022 carried a clear back panel with visible internals, turning circuit boards and wireless charging coils into design statements. At MWC 2026, the company rewrote that entire playbook with the Phone (4a) Pro and standard Phone (4a), and the changes go
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Honor showed up to MWC 2026 and chose chaos. Not content with simply announcing the Honor Magic V6, the company strapped a person to a zipline held together by nothing but the phone’s hinge mechanism. The hinge held. The person survived. (Watch the video below.) Somewhere in Samsung’s offices, someone quietly closed a laptop. It
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