Mobile World Congress is going on this week in Barcelona, where the world will get a look at what to expect in the world of laptops, tablets, and smartphones in the year to come. As usual, there were even some exciting concepts being shown off on the showfloor that we might see made real years from now, too. We scoured the showfloor and have rounded up our best of Mobile World Congress 2025 picks below.
Lenovo ThinkBook Flip Concept
Lenovo is always good for a wild, screen-extending concept. This year, they showed off a concept laptop with a foldable 18.1-inch display that folds backwards — you can bend it back to show someone across from you a separate display, keep it long to better read documents or articles without scrolling, or lay it flat and use the display as a sketchpad. It’s even got a trackpad that can take on different purposes (like a numerical pad) depending on what you’re doing. And, while it’s just a concept for now, pretty much every time Lenovo shows off a laptop that crams in extra screen space, it hits their Thinkbook Plus line before too long. There’s a good chance this will be available in the next year or two.
Lenovo Yoga Solar Laptop Concept
Solar power is coming to homes, power grids, cars — why not laptops? Lenovo had a proof of concept of a solar-powered laptop at this year’s show, and it’s an ambitious piece of technology. The solar panels lining the back of the laptop are 24% efficient in converting solar power to usable energy, which is better than most panels being used in home installations. It’s still not the most efficient way to charge — an hour of sun is enough for just one hour of video — but the laptop can intelligently use solar power to both run operations and store power in the battery, keeping the laptop running for a while.
We might not see a real solar laptop on the market too soon — with solar panels this efficient, we’re guessing the asking price would be awfully high — but it’s something to get excited about as solar panels continue to get cheaper and more efficient in the years to come.
Lenovo Magic Bay Dual Display & 2nd Display Laptop Accessories
We never say no to more screens. If you have the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p, you might be familiar with Magic Bay, a modular attachment system that allows you to stick accessories on your laptop, like an external light. Soon, you’ll have two more tantalizing options — the Dual Display, which turns your laptop into a three-monitor setup with two additional 13-inch displays, and the 2nd Display, which is a smaller side display used for displaying AI prompts, results, and suggestions. Both are concepts for now, but we’re excited to get our hands on them eventually!
Satellai Tracker
Keeping tabs on pets is getting more reliable. Up until now, most of the popular pet trackers have relied on Bluetooth or cellular connectivity to pinpoint a pet’s location, but this often results into anxiety-inducing mishaps that make it look like a pet is running away when they’re still at home. Shouldn’t be as much of a concern with the Satellai Tracker, which relies on a satellite signal to maintain a constant bead on your pet’s location. It has a seven-hour battery life and is rated IP68 for dust- and water-proofing, too, making it useful if you take your pet with you on hiking trips.
Keocam
The Keocam is a new personal safety device billed as a personal dashcam — a tiny video camera you can clip onto your clothes. The Keocam is just about always recording, storing one-minute loops in case of an emergency or an attacker on the street. While having video to record a potentially dangerous attack can help as evidence later, Keotech is most optimistic about the Keocam becoming a powerful deterrent that can prevent street assaults before they happen by scaring would-be attackers away with the threat of being caught on camera.
Nothing Phone (3a) series
Nothing has burst onto the smartphone scene by creating solid phones at attractive prices, and giving them a cool industrial look and a contextual light ring on the back that sets them apart from all the other smart rectangles. They’re showing off their latest series, the Phone (3a), at MWC, and the Pro model is getting us excited by including a 3x periscope zoom camera in a $460 phone. Combining a 5,000 mAh battery with the slightly less powerful but more efficient Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset should mean terrific battery life, too.
Tecno Camon 40 series
Tecno is a smartphone brand that competes hard on value. The Tecno Camon 30 had a lot of flagship features in a phone that was hundreds of dollars cheaper, and it’s successor, the Tecno Camon 40, looks like it will continue down that path. It’ll do that while leaning even more heavily into AI, expanding on their Ella AI assistant and including AI features to help with calling, writing, and virtually everything else you do with a phone. There’s also a FlashSnap mode that allows for quick, fast-shutter speed pictures to be taken immediately, with AI processing taking care of any blur.
Oppo Find N5
Just before MWC, OPPO launched the phenomenal OPPO Find N5 – the world’s thinnest foldable, and our favorite boostyle foldable to date. At the show, OPPO announced that they’re teaming up with Google and MediaTek to deliver monthly updates packed with new features for its devices.
These upgrades, starting with the Find N5 foldable, will utilize Google’s Gemini AI to boost camera performance, gaming, and security while syncing with apps like Notes and Calendar. Future updates promise handy tools like real-time call translation and voice memo summaries, though it’s still unclear which older OPPO phones will join the AI party.
Honor Watch 5 Ultra
The Honor Watch series has been one of the more impressive in the world of Android-friendly smartwatches, pairing a premium design with smooth interfaces and elegant watch faces. With the Honor Watch 5, Honor is maintaining strong battery life — it should last around 15 days, similar to previous watches in the line — but with a stronger processor and more sleep tracking features. If you’re looking for a stylish smartwatch, the titanium case paired with a leather band seems like the way to go.
Infinix E-Color Shift 2.0
Need a phone that stands out? Infinix has it covered. They played around with color-changing backplates on smartphones before, and the second generation of their efforts, E-color Shift 2.0, got a demo at MWC 2025. Rather than the smartphone back simply having different color options, the demo unit could change color based on color matching, mood picked up from a picture of a person’s face, or even the ambient temperature.
BleeqUp Ranger
BleeqUp just redefined the action cam for cyclists at MWC 2025 with the Ranger. It’s a clever combination of features — a high-quality camera set in the center of a pair of cycling sunglasses, which allow for clip-on lenses or lens substitutions for folks who need prescription lenses. There are small speakers set into the frames to turn the Ranger into a pair of open-ear headphones, allowing cyclists to listen to music without blocking their ears. An IP54 rating makes them sweat-proof, and the battery pack can be mounted to a helmet and even includes a safety light that can be used at night. Takes into account just about every concern a cyclist might have!
Qualcomm X85 Modem
The Qualcomm X85 is the company’s latest 5G modem, which we should be seeing in high-end mobile chipsets in the near future. The X85 is faster, but the main improvements come with the help of AI, which helps the modem perform well in congested areas and direct bandwidth to apps on your phone in the most efficient way — an example could be slowing down background download speeds to maintain smooth streaming if you’re watching a video.
MediaTek M90 Modem
MediaTek’s new 5G modem, the M90, increases throughput speeds to keep up with improving 5G standards, and does so while demanding less from your phone’s battery. The modem draws 18% less power from the battery compared to MediaTek’s current 5G modem. That will contribute to longer battery life and more smooth performance on phones with chipsets that use the M90 modem.
HMD Fusion X1
With the Fusion X1, HMD is going after a niche that has been badly underdeveloped — making a first smartphone for teens. A lot of phones we’ve seen in this space have been budget devices that savvy teens wouldn’t be excited about. HMD is changing things up with a device that has respectable hardware, but with robust parental controls — parents can use an app on their phone to set approved times for using certain apps, lock certain apps during school time, and enabling location tracking and low battery alerts in case of emergency. More interesting might be HMD’s work on SafeToNet, an AI-based parental filter that can block content at the device level, instead of using a parental control app or feature that teens can figure out how to circumvent. That’s still in development, but could eventually be implemented on a device like the Fusion X1.
Xiaomi 15 Ultra
The Xiaomi 15 Ultra might be the most impressive camera array that we’ve seen at this year’s show. Continuing their partnership with Leica to include high-end camera lenses, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra has hardware to capture everything from 14mm to 200mm focal lengths, giving it an enormous range, from ultra-wide to telephoto zoom shots. There’s a 23mm 1-inch 50MP main camera, a 70mm telephoto camera for street photography, and a 100mm 200MP ultra telephoto camera that specializes in close-up portraits and shots of faraway subjects. The latter camera has in-sensor technology that can extend focal length to 200mm, avoiding the poor performance of digital zoom. It’s a semi-pro camera array in a smartphone!
Realme 14 Pro
The Realme 14 Pro and 14 Pro+ were on display at MWC 2025, two phones that promise high-end performance at a more competitive price by using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset, a powerful chipset that is a little less powerful, but more efficient than Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line chipset. It’s good value, but there’s one other cool little trick on these phones — the marbled back of the phone changes color with temperature, turning blue when the temperature dips under about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
ZTE Nubia Z70 Ultra
The ZTE Nubia Z70 is ZTE’s latest flagship smartphone, and it’s got all the flagship specs we expect this year — the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, a 6,150 mAh battery, and top-notch durability thanks to an IP68/69 rating for protection from water, dust, and water pressure. It’s also going all-in on AI. In addition to Gemini, the phone includes some of the newer impressive models coming out of China, including Doubao and DeepSeek.
Realme Ultra
Of all the concepts we saw at MWC 2025, the Realme Ultra might’ve been the wildest — a smartphone that you can attach a whole professional camera lens to. The camera module on the back has a 1-inch CMOS sensor that, with an adapter, can work with external lenses that can be fixed onto the phone. The concept kit included 3x and 10x telephoto zoom lenses, both of which requiring manual focus. So, hard to use when you have to keep steady a super heavy lens attached to a light smartphone! Bring a tripod, and suddenly you’re getting the best smartphone pictures we’ve ever seen.
TCL RayNeo Air 3s
The TCL RayNeo Air 3s were the standout display glasses at the show. Building on TCL’s previous RayNeo glasses, these can be used with most devices, from smartphones to handheld gaming platforms, to give you an immersive, VR-like experience. The Air 3s features better weight distribution and improved flicker prevention to help make the glasses more comfortable to use for longer periods of time. They now have two speakers on either side of the frames to provide immersive audio to go with the excellent OLED displays used in the glasses.
Huawei Mate XT
Announced a little before this year’s show, Huawei’s Mate XT made a big splash as the first-ever tri-fold foldable smartphone. In other words, it’s a pocket tablet — when used with one part of the display is a 6.4-inch smartphone, but when the whole thing is unfolded, you’ve got a 10.2-inch tablet on your hands, and the UI adjusts itself accordingly. It’s only 3.6mm thick when completely unfolded, although it is thicker and bulkier than most smartphones when completely folded up. This is no concept, either — it’s already on sale in China, and with premium specs to boot, it’s very expensive. No word on a wider release yet.