MWC 2025 had to do with the probabilities and ends

Mobile World Congress shows us the best and most crazy ideas on mobile technology every year, with one side of ham and “oh, shit, it was the king of Spain than I just walk? “It is a real trip. But this year's conference was a mixture of unusually strange oddities, including the concepts of the phone camera that I swear we tried 15 years ago to the screens that you can fold on each path.

The phones themselves were predictable and, often, predictably good. It was everything else on the margins that was strange: phones with strange back panels, things you put on your phone or simply really great phone screens.

Each fair has a main character. A majority in the show. In Ces, it was all Jensen Huang was doing. In MWC, it was the Xiaomi 15 ultra. There is nothing surprising on this phone, which means that it is a camera with a connected phone and the camera is a little better this year. But this time, Xiaomi went to one of the persistent children of the problem of mobile photography: the middle teleobjective cameras.

While the sensors behind the main cameras have become larger and more capable in recent years, teleobjective cameras have struck with smaller sensors that behave well with good light but fall apart when it is dim. The 15 Ultra adds a largest periscope camera than 200 megapixels to the impressive variety of telephone camera hardware, and is really good. I had many conversations with my fellow nerds and journalists about how good it is, and it stands out as one of the most impressive practical achievements of the show.

Nothing Phone 3a and 3a Pro were also ubiquitous, although they were only announced by the middle of Tuesday. There was not much left to guess on them due to a series of marketing leaks and teasers, but they come with a characteristic of the so -called the essential space that really is worth it. It is a place for voice memoranda, screenshots and digital information bits that are otherwise lost in the camera gallery, and everything is indexed by ai. Above all, these phones represent a more clear and more focused vision of nowhere and more substance to go with the strong style of the brand. What we saw in MWC hopes that we see more attractive things from the company at the end of this year.

That is a representative sample of the phones in the show: well but not surprising. The oddities arrived on the margins. The phones can be boring, but what happens if the back of your phone changed color? What would happen if it were an Ink screen? Or did you have a solar panel that could load your phone? What would happen if it was noisy, not noisy as with style but Really strong? My strange favorite thing of the program was the sustainable concept of Tecno that used coffee in a way that I do not understand completely but actually smelled like coffee.

There were also many strange ideas about what you can put on your phone. Realme and Xiaomi had concepts for large camera lenses that are attached to the bottom of their phone, which I thought we had finished trying to do, as, 12 years ago. Infinix had a concept for a telephone box that uses solar energy to load his phone, although obviously he would need a specialized phone to work with him. HMD introduced a pair of wireless headphones with a case that functions as a magnetic energy bank for the back of your phone.

Some of all's best oddities were not phones. Samsung Display had a folding hand game concept that was not a switch, but it was definitely a switch. Your briefcase was also fun: Imagine opening it to show a cash image grouped on the screen! Just a free idea. And Lenovo had a lot of new ideas about how many times a laptop can bend; If you thought the answer was “once,” will surprise you.

More than anything, this year's MWC was a reminder that although phones may seem boring now, there is still room for fun. And even boring updates are quite good: the folding are thinner than ever, there is a consumption phone with an excellent teleobjective camera, and ai's characteristics could even live up to the promise to save us one day soon. That is nothing (I mean, except anything). But to record, I still want a switch that folds. And maybe a phone that also smells like coffee.