The MWC in Barcelona started yesterday after the forced break in 2020. We really want to know all the news that the manufacturers will present to us, and that will be transferred to the market in a reasonable period of time. This edition of the MWC has a hybrid character , since many companies have made their presentations virtually. In fact, only a third of the brands are physically present in Barcelona. This event has traditionally been celebrated in the month of February, and it will be like that again from the year 2022.
This edition’s strong point is the conference that Tesla CEO Elon Musk will develop on Tuesday afternoon. Everything you say is always taken with great expectation, since even your tweets are capable of varying the price of a cryptocurrency. His presentation will be oriented to how autonomous cars are already a reality in doors and how the development of 5G technology will allow us to move in a much more comfortable way.
This edition will not be of a high impact, since it is not expected that a lot of news will be presented. However, I did open them and some very interesting ones. The presentation of mobile devices will no longer be so much, in fact, they will not have a very lively presence, but the transmission of values such as technology, blockchain and Artificial Intelligence is reinforced, and how they will reach our lives massively.
Samsung and its commitment to the Galaxy range
The Korean company is very strongly committed to its new smartwatch from the Galaxy series , and which, as in the brand, gives a lot of value to all the health monitoring options. The path marked with its folding mobile, the Samsung Z Flip will continue to have continuity, since for this brand there seems to be an interesting market niche. Likewise, they are focusing much of their efforts on developing devices with a much more efficient battery life , as well as on improving the camera systems of their mobile devices.
Similarly, Samsung is already working on 6G technology in some labs. When we are still starting to implement 5G, what will be the future of communications is already unfolding. 5G has incredible challenges ahead, such as making us change the way we relate to our way of understanding the world.
Health-oriented news
One of the surprises of this edition is the smart shirt that the manufacturer ZTE has presented. It is a tissue and sensors that monitor a multitude of parameters, such as heart rate, body temperature or breathing rate. All the data collected by the sensors is transmitted to another device, such as the mobile phone. This garment is intended to give importance to the health sector, since all the parameters of an athlete, or even of people suffering from health ailments, could be registered.
But one of the great challenges ahead is for all health-related data to be integrated into the health services themselves. In this way, one could work actively when assessing the health of patients. It was already demonstrated in Spain during the pandemic that the COVID radar application was an absolute failure. However, other countries like China give them the necessary relevance and thus contain the spread of the virus.
Although this year’s edition is certainly not very powerful, at least between face-to-face and virtual presentations. There are very notable absences, such as that of Google, however, that the pulse of current technology is re-formed in a world congress opens a door to hope. Perhaps all efforts are focused on the next edition of 2022 , which could bring interesting proposals and a greater presence.
