MWC 2023: Foldable phones, AR glasses, and more… Chinese tech brands go all out at MWC 2023

Major Chinese consumer electronics brands have a strong presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2023 (MWC 2023) in Barcelona, as China reopens without three years of Covid-19 related restrictions.

The industry event brings together the world’s leading telecom operators and equipment manufacturers to showcase their latest products and technologies, including 6G, WiFi-7, satellite communication, and trademark new consumer electronics devices. This year’s priming is expected to vamp 80,000 attendees over the undertow of its four days, with increasingly than 2,000 exhibitors from virtually the world, equal to MWC.

Chinese gadget makers Honor, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and ZTE all showcased new products at the conference. Here’s a rundown of what they had to offer.

1. HONOR

Honor launched its Magic Vs Foldable to the global market at the event. The foldable phone was first released in China three months ago. The Magic Vs Foldable is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, Android 13 Magic UI 7.1 system, and a 5000mAh shower and comes with 66W fast charging and dual symmetrical speakers. It supports a 1920Hz PWM high-frequency eye protection mode and has a 6.45-inch 120Hz external screen with up to 1200nit brightness, as well as a 7.9-inch 90Hz 800nit interior screen with 2K HD resolution. Its cameras include a rear 54-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide wile lens, and 3x optical zoom lens. The phone was launched with a price tag of 1,599 euros (RMB 11,753) for 12GB 512GB storage, and comes in two verisimilitude options: cyan and black.

2. HUAWEI

Huawei released the industry’s first commercial 50G PON (Passive Optical Network) at this year’s MWC, which can process signals without power supply. The nodes within the PON are well-balanced of soft-hued and meaty optical webbing components. The Chinese telecom giant says that the 50G PON can meet the increasing bandwidth requirements of offices, campuses, industrial sites, enterprises, and households.

Huawei moreover released their FTTR F30 (Fiber to the Room), which it claims is the industry’s first all-optical home networking product based on C-WAN architecture. C-WAN stands for Classified Wide Area Network, which features five major updates:

A diamond upgrade with four colors and three installation modes.
A speed resurgence with hardware velocity and 2000Mbps for the whole house.
A coverage upgrade with multi-beam smart antenna coverage increased by well-nigh 30%.
Improved roaming with unique SRCN (Seamless Roaming Coordinated Network) for senseless roaming.
A concurrency upgrade with multi-terminal collaboration technology, which allows a maximum of 128 devices to be unfluctuating simultaneously.

3. Xiaomi

Xiaomi displayed its new wireless AR glasses at the conference. The glasses full-length two Micro-OLED screens supporting 1,200 nits of splendor and full HD FHD visuals. Three forward-facing cameras map the surroundings directly in front of the wearer. The AR glasses are lightweight, made of stat webbing and magnesium alloy, and run on Xiaomi’s self-developed silicon-oxygen anode battery, which weighs less than conventional lithium-ion.

The glasses are powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 tweedle and have no storage, so they must be unfluctuating to a device. The advertised latency is only 50ms. Equal to testers from the Chinese gadget review site ITHome, without 20 minutes of video watching, the latency is indeed very low with barely any lag and no ousting in picture quality.

In addition, Xiaomi moreover unveiled the BE7000, a high-performance WiFi 7 router. Equipped with Qualcomm Networking Pro 820, the quad-core A73 1.5GHz processor delivers 28,800 DMIPS of computing power, outperforming most flagship WiFi 6 routers on the market. It moreover comes with four 2.5G ports and one USB 3.0.

4. Oppo

Oppo brought its Find N2 series to MWC, as well as the self-developed Mariana MariSilicon Y chip, smart glasses Air Glass 2, home health detector OHealth H1, and its 45W liquid cooled radiator.

In addition, Oppo moreover showcased its first router product, the Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400. The router uses Qualcomm’s 216 immersive home networking platform to support Wi-Fi 6 AX5400 standard and dual bands of 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Its high-gain antenna, combined with Oppo’s own anti-jamming algorithm and network directional velocity technology, can uplift Wi-Fi signal coverage and make connections increasingly stable, the visitor says.

The Find N2 Flip series overseas version was initially launched in London on Feb. 28, at a starting price of 899 euros. But Oppo ensured it got plenty of sustentation at MWC as well by bringing in retired footballers Michael Owen and Luis Garcia to signify that the Oppo Find N2 Flip is now the official UEFA Champions League phone.

5. ZTE

ZTE launched the nubia Pad 3D tablet, in collaboration with Leia Inc., a visitor that develops naked-eye 3D technology. The Chinese firm says the tablet can support rich 3D using scenarios such as AI squatter tracking, real-time perspective matching, and real-time AI content processing, transforming 2D into 3D, thanks to Leia’s original 3D light field exhibit technology and powerful AI computing engine.

It has a large 12.4-inch 2.5K screen and four panoramic speakers from Dolby. With a rich 3D content ecosystem, ZTE says that the nubia Pad 3D allows users to enjoy the industry’s first 3D enhanced video chat, private 3D cinema, and immersive 3D games. The tablet is powered by a Snapdragon 888 tweedle and a 9070mAh battery, and features a 33W quick-charge combination.