The highlights of Mobile World Congress, the year’s biggest mobile tech show
ONEPLUS WATCH 2
The first major smartwatch launch of the year is from OnePlus, a follow-up to the original OnePlus Watch we saw in 2021. The OnePlus Watch 2 brings with it an impressive 100-hour maximum battery life, as well as a faster processor than the original, and a stainless steel chassis (in two colours) with a sapphire crystal watch face. The software duties are handled by Google’s reliable and everimproving Wear OS, and you can use the watch to track a host of activities right from your wrist. With waterproofing, water resistance and military grade strength, it can go anywhere too.
£299, oneplus.com
SAMSUNG GALAXY RING
There’s been a lot of buzz around Samsung’s smart ring in the short time we’ve known about it: it’s a new product category for Samsung, and it’s a type of device that so far the big tech companies haven’t considered (though that might change soon). We still don’t know all the details about this wearable, including how much it’s going to cost, but Samsung is promising some advanced sleep tracking and a battery that lasts for up to nine days. The thinking is it’ll go on sale in July or August, alongside Samsung’s new foldable phones for 2024.
£TBC, samsung.com
HONOR MAGIC 6 PRO
Whichever way you want to look at it, the Honor Magic 6 Pro is an impressive flagship smartphone, with a 6.8-inch, 120Hz OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor from Qualcomm and up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage – oh, and the build quality and polish are fantastic too. What really makes the phone stand out though, is the eye-tracking technology that means you can answer calls, launch apps and carry out all kinds of tasks just by looking at the right spot on the display. Who says smartphones can’t do anything innovative any more?
£1,100, hihonor.com
OPPO AIR GLASS 3
The Oppo Air Glass 3 specs offer ‘assisted reality’, according to OnePlus, and thanks to some generative AI (handled in part on a connected smartphone) you can use these glasses to analyse what’s in the world around you, and unlock all kinds of features. Tipping the scales at a mere 50 grams, these glasses are still at the prototype stage, but they’re evidence of how quickly lightweight wearable devices like these are progressing – Oppo says they offer the brightest colour display yet in this product category, and we can expect to hear a lot more about them in the future.
£TBC, oppo.com
HUMANE AI PIN
The idea of the Humane AI Pin is that it fixes to your clothing and can manage all sorts of jobs that a phone does, only without a screen. You can use it to take photos and videos,
