Mobile World Congress, the ongoing mobile show in Barcelona will come
to a grand ending today. Revealing a lot about the upcoming trends, the
show has brought few world class products being discussed all around
the world. Every brand is trying it's best to reach the top and this
time, the products have the potential to keep people bound throughout
the upcoming year.
Here is a brand wise, complete list of new mobile phones being announced as well as launched at the MWC 2016.
Bringing the best possible machine for the world, Samsung galaxy S7
and S7 Edge were one of the most attractive pieces of technology on the
show. Improved battery, better quality and much better performance makes
both the phones a super star over the last generation of Galaxy
flagship.
A competition to the premium phones, G5 comes with it's unique styling and a great package in just 5.3 inch touchscreen.
Sony presented a nearly identical set of phones with a wide option of outer colors and power packed performance.
HTC brought a set of 3 Desire smartphones along with the One X9 at
the MWC 2016. X9 features a good set of specifications including its 2.2
GHz Octa Core processor.
Running MIUI 7 on the top of Android 6.0, Xiaomi Mi 4S comes with
additional features like quick charge 2.0 and 64 GB of internal memory.
The flagship Mi5 comes with 5.2 inch quad HD display with a great
snapdragon 820 processor.
Gionee's S8 features a 5.5 inch Full HD Amoled display with 3D touch
and 2.5D arc glass. It comes in Rose Gold, Grey and Gold shade with a
price tag of $494. This seems quite expensive as similar phones with
quad HD screen are existing in this segment.
Lenovo Vibe series now gets two more options by the name K5 and K5
Plus. Powered by nearly the same hardware, both the phones have
different screen resolutions and a bit change in their processor models.
Diamond series from Archos receives a great pair of smartphones by
the name Diammond 2 Plus and Note. Both phones are powered by Octa core
64 bit processors whereas the Note version gets more RAM, internal
storage and a quick charge option.
Alcatel had the most number of products at the MWC 2016. Two were
based on the series Idol (4 and 4S) whereas 3 are from the Pop series
(4, 4+ and 4S). Visually similar, all the phones from both the series
have variable specifications and price range.
Pop 4 -
Cat provides a rugged smartphone named S60 to the people at MWC 2016.
The phone comes with a 4.5 inch HD screen and a certified protection
from falls, salt water, humidity, solar radiation, vibration and thermal
shock.
Blade V7 and V7 Lite provides two different views of smartphone
usage. those who use less can go with the Lite version having lower
screen resolution and other features whereas hardcore users have the
option of Blade V7.
The fight in the tough phone category gets more interesting with
Panasonic introducing 2 rugged models with quite an expensive price tag
($1,499). Protection parameters include MIL-STD-810G validation and a
1D/2D barcode reader. One comes with windows 10 whereas the other uses
android as its operating system.
Elite X3 from HP packs window 10 as its OS and provides high end
specifications like 4GB of RAM and TB microSD card support. The phone
comes with a 5.96 inch quad HD screen.
Acer's next generation smartphones named Zest and Jade 2 serves 2
different worlds. Jade 2 comes with high end specifications like
Snapdragon 808 processor whereas Zest uses 1.3 GHz quad core for its
processing duties.
Retailing for $305, the 5.5 inch smartphone with gorilla glass 4 uses a snapdragon 617 processor and full HD IPS display.
The phone comes with 2 variants with different RAM's whereas rest
reamins totally the same. The 1 GB RAM version sells for $139 whereas 2
GB RAM costs $149. Other features include a HD display with Snapdragon
212 processor and 4G connectivity.
