Huawei

China’s Huawei won't have the brand glamour of Samsung but it’s been making some steady marketshare profits nowadays, consistent with analysts. At MWC the employer has a press occasion scheduled for the Sunday afternoon wherein it says it is going to be unveiling “a contemporary Huawei device as a way to meet the demands of the next technology of cell innovation”. It’s feasible this could be a brand new flagship cellphone — aka the Huawei P9, successor to final year’s P8. The corporation additionally has a line of mid-tier devices, and makes smartwatches too. So lots of hardware options here.

HTC

in contrast to in MWCs past we’re no longer anticipating a lot within the manner of new flagship cellphone hardware from Taiwan’s HTC, which isn't keeping a completely fledged press occasion at this yr’s display. 

Given how lots the enterprise has struggled to turn its smartphone fortunes round in current years this isn't always a large surprise. remaining month CEO Cher Wang even said that VR is now “greater critical” for the organisation than telephones. So HTC’s MWC announcements are going to be targeted on its forthcoming Vive VR headset, which it’s building in partnership with video games developer Valve.

We already recognise the Vive headset is due to deliver from April, with pre-orders beginning later this month, but we’re looking forward to the organisation to take time at MWC flesh out some greater information about what will be within the Vive container — and specially disclose a totally key bit of intel: the fee.