The Best (and Wildest) Devices From MWC 2026

I’ve spent the previous week in Barcelona, trekking up and down eight halls at Fira Barcelona to search out the most effective smartphones, tablets, good glasses, and different devices at Mobile World Congress 2026. And right here’s the good devices that I discovered.

Some of those devices had been awarded our Best of MWC award. Let’s discuss concerning the coolest stuff I discovered in Barcelona.

Lenovo ThinkE-book Modular PC

Even earlier than MWC formally began, I bought the possibility to go hands-on with Lenovo’s ThinkE-book Modular PC. This is an idea gadget from Lenovo, that may more than likely flip into an actual product in a yr or two – plenty of Lenovo’s ideas do flip into actual merchandise ultimately.

Essentially, you could have two 14-inch OLED shows right here, that are removable. So you mainly get a secondary monitor to make use of along with your ThinkE-book PC. And the keyboard will also be indifferent. Which makes for a very cool setup, and truthfully, this may be the right PC to purchase and journey with. Especially should you’re like me and are used to having an ultrawide monitor (or twin displays).

HONOR Robot Phone

• Disclaimer: HONOR did sponsor our flights and most of our lodging throughout MWC this yr. However, none of our content material on HONOR’s bulletins and merchandise was sponsored, nor did the corporate see what we wrote earlier than it was revealed.

Next up is the HONOR Robot Phone, which is one thing that Honor has proven off a number of occasions already, together with asserting it final yr. At MWC, HONOR introduced that will probably be an actual product that you would be able to purchase later this yr.

Essentially, this can be a bar cellphone that has a 200MP digital camera on a gimbal that’s hooked up to the cellphone. It would possibly sound foolish, however it’s truly actually helpful, particularly should you wish to file content material along with your cellphone.

And as a result of it’s a “robot phone”, it will probably additionally dance, as a result of why not?

HONOR Humanoid Robot

Having been to many tech commerce exhibits, seeing humanoid robots isn’t one thing significantly new. Back in January, I used to be strolling from the South Hall at LVCC over to Central Hall, following a humanoid robotic that was the scale of a small little one.

But HONOR got here to MWC to launch its first humanoid robotic, and actually its first robotic usually. And I used to be impressed. HONOR didn’t present plenty of performance of the robotic, however it did present it dancing, each at its occasion and at its sales space. What actually impressed me was how agile it was. Watch the video above to see what I imply. Unfortunately, due to the music HONOR used, we can not add it to YouTube.

I’m fairly excited to see what HONOR can do with this sooner or later.

Motorola Razr Fold FIFA Edition

Back at CES, Motorola introduced the Razr Fold, kind of. It gave us a tease with a number of specs. But this week, we bought much more specs, and we additionally bought the FIFA Edition that may go on sale later this Summer.

The Razr Fold FIFA Edition appears to be like unimaginable, and I truthfully assume it appears to be like higher than the Razr FIFA Edition, since it’s in that black and gold colour scheme. Honestly, I’m very excited to spend extra time with this gadget when Motorola formally declares it in a number of months. Especially after seeing its DXOMark score.

Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear Elite

While that is technically not a “gadget” per se, it’s nonetheless a fairly large announcement. The first massive replace for a wearable processor in fairly a number of years from Qualcomm. While they’re utilizing the time period “Elite” right here, it’s mainly saying that it’s the high-end processor on the wearable aspect, and the Snapdragon Wear W5 and W5+ will live on in new merchandise.

The Snapdragon Wear Elite shall be coming to the following technology of Galaxy Watches later this yr, and Motorola can be going to make use of it in its AI pendant. Kind of displaying us that the Snapdragon Wear Elite is greater than only a smartwatch processor, however extra of a processor for all wearable gadgets from good glasses to AI pendants, to watches.

TCL NXTPAPER AMOLED

Over the previous few years, TCL has actually been pushing its NXTPAPER expertise. This is their matte and anti-glare display expertise that may additionally flip into e-ink with a swap on the aspect of the cellphone. But the massive drawback with these is that it’s been on an LCD panel, which implies the colours don’t look as nice.

But now, TCL is utilizing AMOLED for this new gadget. The TCL NXTPAPER AMOLED appears to be like completely gorgeous, whereas nonetheless being matte and eliminating all shadows and reflections. Hopefully, now TCL will begin to transfer right into a extra high-end smartphone market, versus all the time launching extra mid-range and low-end gadgets.

TCL CSOT World’s Narrowest-bezel OLED Tablet Display

Sticking with TCL however shifting over to its show aspect, let’s discuss this OLED pill show. This is, what TCL CSOT is saying is the “World’s Narrowest-bezel” OLED Tablet Display. This is a 3120×2080 decision show with 284 pixels per inch, and the bezels are simply 1.3mm on all sides. So this isn’t some low-end show to assist obtain these skinny bezels both.

Huawei and Lenovo do have a tendency to make use of a few of TCL CSOT’s different show choices, so we may see this pill display being utilized by one or the opposite, or each, within the close to future.

vivo X300 Ultra

At MWC this week, vivo unveiled the X300 Ultra – slightly bit. For the primary time ever, vivo had a sales space at Mobile World Congress and was displaying off their subsequent massive factor, the vivo X300 Ultra. But they had been principally specializing in the attachments and the video high quality of the brand new smartphone. As the official announcement continues to be a couple of month away.

But from what we’ve seen to this point with the X300 Ultra, we’re going to be very impressed with this gadget. vivo can be including a 400mm teleconverter lens, together with the 200mm that was already out there for the X200 Ultra and X300 Pro. vivo additionally unveiled that each one three gadgets use the identical mount, so the teleconverter lens will work on all three smartphones; that’s an enormous deal.

We nonetheless have a while to attend for the X300 Ultra, however we undoubtedly like what we see to this point.

TECNO Under Water Charging

This idea from TECNO is a “cool, but why?” sort of idea. TECNO was displaying off the power to cost their telephones underwater, utterly submerged in mainly a fish tank. They had been plugged in and charging. That’s a very cool feat, as a result of we’ve had waterproof telephones for some time now, however having the ability to cost underneath water just isn’t one thing we’ve seen earlier than – and never one thing I’ve considered.

I’m not even truly positive what the use-case could be for this function. But it’s cool nonetheless.

TECNO Modular Magnetic Concept

TECNO all the time involves MWC with a number of idea gadgets, and the opposite fascinating idea is the TECNO Modular Magnetic Concept. Think of MagSafe, however on steroids.

So, this idea begins with an ultra-thin cellphone, we’re speaking about 4.9mm skinny. And then you could have modules that you would be able to add on. Like batteries, kickstands, cameras, and even a telephoto converter that appears fairly cool. But the most effective half right here is, you don’t have to make use of only one. You can maintain including on. Now clearly, you aren’t going to do that typically, principally simply to point out off. You’d probably use the battery pack (which is round 3,000mAh) and one other add on like a digital camera lens and name it a day.

This jogged my memory plenty of the Moto Z that Motorola launched practically a decade in the past, with its Moto Mods. It was a good suggestion, however it meant that Motorola couldn’t change its design for years, due to these Moto Mods. And most of them had been mediocre and fairly dear. So right here’s hoping that if and when this turns into an actual product, that TECNO will do a greater job in that division.

Wrap Up

And these are my picks for the good devices at MWC this yr. Quite a number of extra may have undoubtedly made the checklist right here. But these had been all fairly cool in their very own proper. Many are ideas which will or could not flip into actual merchandise, so do maintain that in thoughts.