MWC day 0: May San Móvil preserve your sight
Glasses to see what is not there
Technology brands have set out to put images just a few millimetres from our eyes. Beyond virtual and mixed reality viewers, this year the trend is for conventional frames, although they are considerably thicker to accommodate all the necessary electronics. TCL Mobile has three: ones with augmented reality (1,500 euros), which superimpose digital information on the visual field, ones for 300 euros to watch mobile videos on a 200-inch virtual screen, and others of the same price with cameras to record the world around us, direct rivals of the Ray-Ban Meta. BleeqUp offers its own to cyclists, with a battery in the helmet that allows you to shoot five hours of video, and the mobile application is responsible for summarising the highlights in a short clip using AI. Finally, ActiveLook believes that someone will want to see the weather forecast or physical exercise data in real time at a corner of the visual field, ignoring the failure of Google Glass.
The entire field is a HMD
HMD rethinks reverse battery charging with the new Amped Buds wireless earbuds. Usually it is the phone that provides backup power to accessories, such as the earphone case. In this case it is the case that provides charge to the mobile. At the same event at the Camp Nou, the Finnish brand also presented the Fusion X1, a phone for children with parental control functions that costs €4.99 per month, and two mobile phones for Barça fans: the Barça 3210, an edition of the classic Nokia model with the club's colours, and thesmartphone Barça Fusion, signed by eleven players from the men's first team, some of whom have also provided voices for alarm tones, so that waking up is less hard if it's Lewandowski or Lamine Yamal who call you "good morning".
Partnerships around AI
The international and cross-cutting nature of the MWC is evident in events such as yesterday's, where Nokia announced that it will combine its telecommunications equipment with Nvidia chips and Softbank software to test the use of AI to optimise the performance of radio networks serving mobile phones from operators KDi and TIA. Everyone is rushing to establish alliances and this will not be the last one we will see this week in Barcelona.
