The shortened version of the world’s largest mobile telecommunications program, Mobile World Congress (MWC), running under stringent virus controls in Barcelona, Spain, on June 28. Spain’s King Felipe V and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez were present for the inauguration of the four-day technical fair. MWC 2021 is one of the first major technology conferences held in Europe since the start of the pandemic. More than 30,000 visitors from 143 countries are set to stream in the Catalan city for MWC 2021. Here are the highlights from day one.
Things to do for MWC 2021
A must-have for this year’s MWC is Covid gear. All attendees are equipped with this year’s essential technology: a negative COVID-19 test, an FFP2 face mask and a digital badge for contact-tracing.
samsung One UI Watch interface unveiled at MWC 2021
South Korean tech giant Samsung unveiled new One UI watch software for its upcoming Galaxy Watch portfolio at MWC 2021. The new smartwatch interface, One UI Watch, combines the best features of Google’s Wear OS and Tizen.
During the event, Samsung showed off what the actual software would look like. It shows how the smartphone’s settings will appear on the watch. It also teased new integrations with apps like Starva, Adidas Running, and the like. Spotify, the latter of which will bring offline playback to Wear OS.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus 5G mobile platform unveiled at MWC
Qualcomm Technologies announced the new Snapdragon 888 Plus 5G mobile platform, a follow-up to the flagship Snapdragon 888. The Snapdragon 888 Plus delivers flagship experiences with intelligent entertainment, including AI-enhanced gameplay, streaming, photography and more – backed by enhanced performance, unmatched speeds and premium connectivity.
The platform is equipped with a full arsenal of Snapdragon Elite gaming features to harness the power of ultra-smooth responsiveness, color-rich HDR graphics and mobile-first desktop-level. Compared to its predecessor, the Snapdragon 888 Plus offers the 6th generation Qualcomm AI Engine with Qualcomm Kryo 680 CPU prime core clock speed up to 3.0GHz and 32Tops AI performance, which is an improvement of over 20 percent. The company also expanded its 5G RAN platform portfolio with the Qualcomm 5G DU X100 accelerator card.
The Qualcomm 5G DU X100 is designed to enable operators and infrastructure vendors to easily reap the benefits of high performance, low latency and power efficient 5G while accelerating the cellular ecosystem’s transition toward virtualized radio access networks. has the ability to obtain.
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