mwc 2022
A staid MWC wraps up amid a lull in mobile excitement
I wrote a bit last week about how it was going to be a weird MWC. By “weird,” I mean beyond the usual way that everything is weird all the time now. In addition to being the second time the show h
OSOM talks its first phone, ahead of a Q4 release
Mobile World Congress was going to be OSOM’s big debut. After a few months of teases, the North American (U.S./Canadian) smartphone maker formed in the wake of Essential’s collapse was going t
Carl Pei’s Nothing is working on a smartphone
Seven years after co-founding OnePlus, Carl Pei left the smartphone maker in 2020 to launch his own venture. The company that became Nothing has, to date, launched a single product: the Ear (1) transp
Huawei gets into the e-reader game with a combo note-taking device
Nearly 20 years after the release of the first e-reader, the category isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity. Amazon has ruled the roost for over a decade now, in spite of the best efforts of companies
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad kicks off Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptop platform
After dominating the world of high-end mobile processors for so long, Qualcomm’s got a laptop it would like to sell you. Announced at the tail end of last year as part of the annual Snapdragon summi
Will Mobile World Congress be more of the same?
I’m not sure precisely when the change occurred, but at some point Mobile World Congress became the smartphone show. It’s a fine thing to be in the world of tech trade shows — and certainly
MWC to bar some Russian companies from next week’s show
The GSMA, which puts on the world’s largest annual mobile connectivity show (aka Mobile World Congress) has confirmed it will ban some Russian companies from exhibiting at the Barcelona-based co
Samsung kills the Note, so the Galaxy S22 Ultra can fly
The Note is dead. After more than a decade, Samsung has officially closed the book on the transformative phablet. The brand will still exist, but only in a kind of liminal marketing capacity. “We’
Samsung gets more fine-tuna to sustainability with phones made from fishing nets
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has been banging its sustainability drum loudly over the past couple of years, with impacts that echo around its ecosystem. With slogans like “corporate ci