10 big enterprise and smartphone announcements from Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 event

Following two years of COVID-19, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 at long last gotten back to its physical avatar in Barcelona. The event kicked off as the significant emergency unfolded in Ukraine, provoking GMSA, the organizer of the event, to denounce Russia for attacking the country as well as boycott its structure on the show. On the technology side of things, the focus of the event, as usual, to a great extent stayed on mobile technologies, even though there were a few outstanding improvements on the enterprise side as well.

The Mobile World Congress 2022 denoted its end on March 3. As consistently plenty of cool technology and devices were displayed at the event. Notwithstanding, a lot of organizations pulled out of the event because of COVID worries as the event moved to physical after 2019. While we might have been shy of a few announcements this year, smartphone creators like Realme, Nokia, and TCL compensated for it by disclosing a lot of phones.

Mobile World Congress (MWC 2022) has quite recently finished up (February 28-March 3). The world’s biggest trade show for the smartphone industry has been the launchpad for a few Android smartphones as well as other gadgets.

Over the years, MWC has been an observer to the first 5G smartphones, first foldable smartphones, powerful tablets, and lots more. MWC 2020 was likewise the first big tech event to get canceled because of the Pandemic in 2020. While in 2021 the event was held, it was to a great extent repressed. MWC 2022 got back with a bang and saw a few big announcements.

MWC 2022: The biggest enterprise announcements

Microsoft

First up, Microsoft declared new services and solutions for redesign Azure for Operators. The organization said that the product will soon give Azure Operator Distributed Services, a carrier-grade hybrid cloud platform for 5G mobile and voice operators, as well as a cloud-native 5G SA core for operator edge deployments on that platform. The Redmond headquartered giant likewise declared Azure Private 5G core and Azure public MEC for low-latency applications.

Collaboration with Qualcomm

Notwithstanding its own solution, Microsoft additionally banded together with Qualcomm under which the chipmaker will use its private multi-access edge compute (private MEC), including Azure Private 5G Core, to develop an end-to-end chip-to-cloud private 5G network solution for enterprise applications like robotics and manufacturing.

“This collaboration between Microsoft and Qualcomm Technologies will reduce adoption barriers and operating costs for high performance 5G connectivity solutions serving global enterprises. RAN-Core automation and chip-to-cloud system observability for deployment and operation of large-scale private mobile networks that will massively simplify the procurement, deployment, and management of intelligent 5G edges for a broad range of industries and use cases,” Shriraj Gaglani, GM for Azure for Operators at Microsoft, said.

Cisco

Proceeding with the conversation on 5G, Cisco said it will work with its global partners to deliver private 5G as a service to enterprises and eliminate technical, financial, and operational risks for them. It will be available on a pay-as-you-use model and is presently being tested across sectors like education, entertainment, government, manufacturing, and real estate.

Facebook and Tech Mahindra

The metaverse was one more hot topic at MWC 2022, with Meta (formerly Facebook) requiring a global cooperative work to assemble the network infrastructure that will enable the interoperable and interconnected virtual space.

“Today, we’re at the start of the next transition as we build for the metaverse. But creating a true sense of presence in virtual worlds delivered to smart glasses and VR headsets will require massive advances in connectivity. Bigger than any of the step changes we’ve seen before. Things like remote rendering over edge compute cloud and wide-scale immersive video streaming will take entirely new types of networks,” Mark Zuckerberg said.

“We need to create connectivity infrastructure that can evolve as fast as technology does. So we’ll continue to work with partners that share this vision for the next computing platform – supporting breakthroughs in this ecosystem over the next decade to make sure people around the world can participate in the metaverse we’re all building,” he added.

Further, IT consulting firm Tech Mahindra declared the launch of TechMVerse, a dedicated platform to deliver interactive and immersive experiences in the metaverse for enterprises across sectors.

“From infrastructure to experience, from spatial computing to now commerce, Tech Mahindra’s platform, the TechMverse would enable seamless integration between our known expertise in 5G with our skills in AI, AR/VR, and blockchain,” CP Gurnani, MD & CEO at Tech Mahindra, said.

“We would be training a workforce of 1000 engineers to ensure they are ready to solve complex business challenges and imagine new worlds for our customers and society,” he noted.

For example, TCL showed its variety of foldable gadgets, one of which can be folded totally, meaning a 360 degrees fold. Following this, Realme and Oppo revealed their 150W Ultra-dart charging tech which will send on Realme GT Neo 3 soon. There’s much more that we saw at the event yet it’s unrealistic to specify every one of the gadgets launched.

MWC 2022: Noteworthy smartphone announcements at the event

TCL Foldables

Like last year, TCL displayed a couple of foldable prototypes at MWC 2022. These incorporate TCL Ultra Flex and TCL Fold and Roll. The previous features a 360-degree foldable hinge, accordingly allowing clients to fold the gadget inwards and outwards. With this, the TCL Ultra Flex transforms into an 8-inch tablet when totally unfolded.

Then again, TCL Fold and Roll can be extended aside to stretch out the display to 10-inches. This gadget can be used in multiple configurations. For example, it tends to be used as a tablet with 8.85-inches of screen area and in smartphone mode where you get 6.87-inches of screen space.

As referenced previously, both these gadgets are foldable models. So it can’t be said assuming they will end up as consumer-ready products at any point soon.

150W UltraDart charging on Realme and Oppo phones

Phones with 120W charging are commercially available. Nonetheless, we are yet to see 150W charging on phones in the market. At MWC 2022, Realme and Oppo displayed their 150W charging tech asserting that the breakthrough technology will advance soon. This new charging tech is said to top up the gadget mostly in around 5 mins.

Realme GT Neo 3 is affirmed to get this tech on board soon. Other than this, Oppo referenced that the 150W charging tech will be accessible on OnePlus phones in the second quarter of 2022.

Lenovo Legion Y90 gaming phone

Lenovo has been making gaming phones for some time now. Adding to that list, the Chinese giant launched the Lenovo Legion Y90 gaming phone. Like every other gaming gadget, it has gaming aesthetics and an interesting camera module. The Lenovo Legion Y90 packs Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset which is paired with up to 18GB of RAM.

Lenovo has added a fume chamber cooling system to keep the gadget cool during long gaming sessions. The smartphone has a 5600mAh battery with 68W charging support and Dolby Atmos-powered speakers. Lenovo Legion Y90 retails at a beginning cost of CNY 3,999 (generally Rs. 47,900) in China.

Honor Magic 4 Pro

Honor uncovered its most recent flagship Magic 4 Pro at the event. It includes a one-of-a-kind circular rear camera module with different camera sensors placed inside it. The Honor Magic 4 Pro is outfitted with Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset. It gets up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. The phone sports a triple rear camera system including dual 50-megapixel cameras and a 64-megapixel periscope zoom lens.

There’s a 6.81-inch Flex OLED quad-curved display with a dynamic refresh rate of 120Hz. Other than this, it gets a 4600mAh battery with support for 100W charging. Honor has made this gadget accessible at a beginning cost of EUR 1,099 (generally Rs. 93,000).