MWC 2019 Day 0 highlights: Nokia 9 PureView, Mate X, Mi Mix 3 5G and Mi 9 announced today

And that concludes proceedings for today

With Nokia’s event we now come to a close for today’s MWC experience. Be sure to join us tomorrow as we look at other major smartphone launches. Good night!

The Nokia 9 Pureview starts at a price of $699

And here’s the photo we saw so often in the leaks 😀

Nokia 9 PureView design, display and price

The phone has a thickness is 8 mm and it has IPX68 waterproofing. The phone has a 2K pOLED panel and also has wireless charging capabilities. The fingerprint sensor is on the back. Inside the phone is 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. The phone will be available for $699 and it will be available starting March.

Two of the lenses on #Nokia9Pureview are monochrome sensors. @HMDGlobal @nokia #MWC2019 pic.twitter.com/VbvT1QE08r

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

Five camera madness on the Nokia 9 Pureview

All camera lenses of #nokia9pureview together offer 60 megapixels, which can also be higher depending on the scene you are capturing. #MWC2019 @nokia @NokiaMobile @NokiamobileIN @HMDGlobal pic.twitter.com/lnA0pW646u

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

And now..... The #Nokia9Pureview! #MWC2019 @nokia @HMDGlobal pic.twitter.com/ZK3N00gHHE

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Nokia 9 PureView Camera

The phone has a 12 MP depth control sensor.Nokia has partnered with Lightroom to give the best photo editing possible on a smartphone says Nokia. There is also a partnership with Google to edit the bokeh or blur in Google Photos. The phone can deliver stunning B&W photos with the three monochrome sensors. The exposure time of the camera can be set to 10 seconds.

Nokia 9 PureView is here

The Nokia 9 PureVIew is here and it comes with a massive five Zeiss camera lenses. Two cameras are RGB sensors. The other three are monochrome. The monochrome sensors allow for 2.4x light capture. One picture is taken by all the five cameras and you can go up to 240 MP with all the cameras.

Here it is! The obnoxious penta**-camera featuring Nokia 9 Pureview**

A look at the prices of the two phones

Nokia 4.2 and 3.2 announced 

The Nokia 4.2 comes with a drop-notch style design and an extra button to launch the Google Assistant. The phone has a dual-camera system. Under the hood is a Snapdragon 459 SoC and 5.4-inch screen. The Nokia 3.2 is a 6.26-inch HD+ display with a single camera and a drop notch.  Inside is 4,000 mAh battery and a Snapdragon 429 SoC. The notification light on both the phones is on the side inbuilt in the power button. The Nokia 4.2 is priced at $169 and Nokia 3.2 is priced at $149.

The Nokia 4.2 and 3.2 also get Face Unlock

Both the Nokia 3.2 and Nokia 4.2 will feature a dedicated Google Assistant button

More images of the new Nokia 3.2

...and there is also Nokia 3.2 that has been announced. @nokia @HMDGlobal #MWC2019 pic.twitter.com/ylGxp6sMfD

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

Sitting right below the Nokia 4.2 in HMD Global’s lineup is the new Nokia 3.2

Next up! The new Nokia 4.2 which runs on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 439 Octa-core SoC

The Nokia 1 Plus will run on Google’s Android Pie Go Edition and will be priced at $99 

Nokia 1 Plus

The Nokia 1 Plus is going to be an upgrade to the Nokia 1 Android Go Phone. It looks like the Nokia 1 but it has a bigger 5.4-inch LCD display. The rear camera is 8 MP and the front camera is 5 MP. It will come with Android 9.0 Pie Go addition. It comes with 1 GB RAM and 8 GB storage. The phone will be sold for $ 99 in three colours.

The Nokia 1 Plus, HMD Global’s entry-level smartphone for 2019

Presenting the new Nokia 210! HMD Global’s only new feature phone this year at MWC 2019

We are starting with feature phones and the first is Nokia 210

The Nokia 210 is the most affordable feature phone in the lineup with 2.5 G connectivity. It also has a camera and can access the internet. There is also a built-in app store as well. Battery life of the device is touted to be about a month. Yikes. The phone will be available in Red, Grey and Black. The retail price will be $35.

We are now finally going to see some new Nokia phones

Juho Sarvikas, CPO of HMD Global has come on stage to give us the first official look at Nokia’s 2019 portfolio of devices.

Nokia and software updates

Thanks to stock Android, Nokia was the fastest to bring the Android Oreo to its devices and also delivered Android Pie faster than other manufacturers. Perhaps they haven’t heard of the Pixel smartphones.

Nokia and feature phones

Nokia is the number 1 player in the feature phone market. The Nokia 3310 and 8110 were released last year and have sold as many as 10 million units worldwide.

Nokia user base

Nokia has tripled its smartphone numbers in the last two years. Nokia has become one of the leading smartphone maker in many parts of the world.

Florian Seiche, CEO of HMD Global gets us underway

The event has started

We are now going to see the flagship Nokia 9 PureView smartphone.

We’re minutes away from commencement, meanwhile, here’s a look at the beautiful venue for the event

.@HMDGlobal has a gorgeous event venue with some beautiful music. #MWC2019 pic.twitter.com/rbY7NXJ429

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

We’re all set!

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Pictures of pictures taken using the new @nokia phones. @HMDGlobal #MWC2019 pic.twitter.com/7GIrK0j9UP

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In case you want to watch the event 

We will be providing LIVE coverage of the event but just in case you wish to watch the livestream, you can see it in the YouTube embed below.

HMD Global is up next

The Finnish smartphone maker Nokia is about to unveil its flagship of this year called the Nokia 9 PureView smartphone. Apart from that we are going to see a whole lot of new updates to Nokia’s previous smartphones as well. To know more click on the link below.

Nokia MWC 2019: When and where to watch the event livestream

The Mate X features Huawei’s very own Balong 5000 5G modem which the company claims, is the fastest in the world

The event has ended

Stay tuned for the Nokia event starting at 8:30 pm IST.

Mate X Price

The MateBook X Pro – 1,599 Euro  

Mate X price – 2,299 Euro for the 8 GB RAM + 512 GB internal storage. It will be made available in mid-2019.

The Mate X features Huawei’s very own Balong 5000 5G modem which the company claims, is the fastest in the world

Huawei Mate X charging

The Mate X has 4,500 mAh battery and will come with the 55 watt charger which is faster than the Mate 20 Pro, which had 45 Wh charger. Full charge on the Mate X is claimed to be at 30 minutes which is much faster than the likes of Apple iPhone XS Max. You can use the charger to charge your laptops as well.

Despite being a foldable smartphone, the Huawei Mate X is exceptionally thin. Here’s the comparison. Wow!

Mate X will have 5G

The Mate X will have 5G enabled inside it. The phone comes with the large number of world first. The phone will have Huawei’s Kirin 980 chipset and Balong 500 5G modem inside it.

Mate X Camera and case

The camera has been made in association with German camera maker Leica. The large skin gives you an edge-to-edge experience while viewing photos. The back screen let your subject view the photo being taken in real time. The phone comes with a smart cover to give good protection against fall.

Despite being a foldable smartphone, the Huawei Mate X is exceptionally thin. Here’s the comparison. Wow!

Huawei Mate X thickness

When folded, the phone is only 11-mm compared to the 17 mm in competing products. There is no gap in the phone’s fold like the one seen on the Royole FlexPai.

Oouch Samsung! That will hurt.

A look at the three modes in which the Mate X can be folded into

Galaxy Fold vs Mate X

In comparison to the Galaxy Fold which has a 4.8-inch front display and a 7.4-inch full opened display, the Mate X is certainly bigger. It also has no no-notch on the front. The hinge has been designed for the past three years to give the front-to-back fold. The hinge has 100 patents inside it.

Mate X display

The phone, unlike the Galaxy X, opens outwards instead of inwards. Phone has an 8.nch screen when fully opened up. and on the front, we have a 6.6-inch screen. There is a screen on the back and on the front.

The moment we’ve been waiting for — the Huawei Mate X!

The new Matebook 14 may not be as premium as the Matebook X Pro but certainly isn’t a slouch in terms of performance

Huawei folding phone Mate X announced

The Chinese smartphone maker has unveiled the Mate X folding smartphone and it comes with 5G.

The new Matebook 14 may not be as premium as the Matebook X Pro but certainly isn’t a slouch in terms of performance

5G CPE

Huawei is now showing the world’s fastest 5G CPE called the Huawei 5G CPE Pro. It can give up to 4.6 GBps in theory and live network speeds achieved is 3.2 Gbps. Wi-Fi 6 can make this speed upto 4.8 GBps to give you the best use.

Huawei’s second introduction at this year’s MWC, the Matebook 14

Huawei’s second introduction at this year’s MWC, the Matebook 14

A new MateBook

With the MateBook X, MateBook D and MateBook E, now we have a fourth series in the MateBook family called just the MateBook. A 14-inch and touch variant of the laptop has also been introduced. This laptop also has 90 percent screen-to-body ratio and it also has 3:2 aspect ratio with QHD display. The 8th-gen Intel mobile processors are also present along with NVIDIA’s MX250 GPU.

A look at all the improvements on the new Huawei Matebook X Pro

The new Matebook X Pro features a beautiful display with a 91% screen-to body ratio and super small bezels

Huawei Share OneHop

Huawei’s newest share technology is being demoed on stage which can let you easily transfer media from your phone to your MateBook X Pro. Seems quite impressive. Just swipe down with three fingers to send the picture toand fro from your laptop and phone.

Huawei graphics and Audio

The MateBook X Pro has an NVIDIA MX250 GPU graphics card. The power key doubles as a fingerprint reader giving easy protection. The laptop comes with a quad-speaker design with Dolby Atmos.

Intel and Huawei

The laptop comes with the 8th-gen Intel mobile platform. Chris Walker, CP of Intel is explaining its partnership with Huawei to drive forward performance and design of laptops.

MateBook X Pro design

The laptop has a 91 percent screen-to-body ratio and has a thickness of 7.3 mm only. The laptop comes in a 3:2 aspect ratio and has a touch screen display with FHD+ resolution.

The new Matebook X Pro features a beautiful display with a 91% screen-to body ratio and super small bezels

First off, a new laptop. What’s it called? the Huawei Matebook X Pro (2019)

Huawei MateBook X

Huawei has had 4x growth in PC shipments in the past one year. Now Huawei has unveiled the new MateBook X Pro laptop which the company says is borderless.

Huawei, a leading smartphone brand

18 years ago only 2 percent of China knew about Huawei. Now it is the second biggest smartphone maker. Huawei has made great strides in the tablet and wearables business. The company has spent $5 billion in R&D last year.

Richard Yu, chief executive of  Huawei’s  consumer business takes the stage to begin proceedings

Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Group has taken the stage

Richard is here to explain how Huawei is connecting the future with its telecom business. The company has shipped 206 million smartphones shipped and has spent $52 billion in its telecom business.

The world's first 5G #foldablephone could make its debut today. Here's how you can watch @HuaweiMobile's #MWC2019 keynote Live at 6:30 pm IST today. #HuaweiMateX
Don't forget to tune into https://t.co/ddcesx0mVz for the latest on everything at MWC. https://t.co/hGYYQdt6Oy

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

We are about to begin

The hype is real about Huawei’s foldable smartphone which is said to be called the Mate X. 5 minutes out. Right  on time by Huawei.

In case you wish to watch the live stream

While we will be covering each aspect of the Huawei launch, you can watch the livestream in the YouTube embed below.

Huawei launch livestream

In case you wish to know more about what Huawei is planning for this years MWC, you can click on the link below.

Huawei up next

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is about to unveil its folding display smartphone today and apart from that we are sure to get some 5G related announcements. The event starts at 6.30 pm IST.

A look at all the products launched by Xiaomi at its keynote today

We are done with the Xiaomi launch event

Stick around for we have the Huawei event in a few hours.

The Xiaomi Mi LED Smart Bulb has been priced as low as EUR 19.9

Just as Xiaomi did in China a few days back, the company’s also launched its 20W wireless charger

Mi LED light bulb announced

The lightbulb supports 16 million colours, Google Voice assistant and Alexa Voice assistant. You can control the light bulb from the Mi Home app. The bulb can last upto 11 years says Xiaomi. The price of the bulb is 19.9 Euros and there will be a whitebullb option for 9.9 Euros in partnership with Philips.

Just as Xiaomi did in China a few days back, the company’s also launched its 20W wireless charger

The Xiaomi Mi 9 price

The Xiaomi Mi 9 will start at Euro 449 for the 64 GB + 6 GB RAM version. For the 128 GB + 6 GB RAM  variant will come for 499 Euros. In Spain pre-order start today. It will be available by 28 February.

AnTuTu scores and Wireless charging

Xiaomi is now bragging about how the Snapdragon 855 in the Mi 9 has 2X AI performance over the A12 Bionic in the iPhone XS. The phone has an AnTuTu score of 387,851.  The Mi 9 will have the first 20 Watt wireless charger in the world. You can get 10-100 percent in 90 minutes wirelessly

A look at the cameras on the Xiaomi Mi 9

Xiaomi and DxOMark

There goes Xiaomi again bragging about the DxOMark score like it did last year with the Mi Mix 2S and Mi Mix 3.

A look at the key design elements of the gorgeous-looking Xiaomi Mi 9

Mi 9 Specs

For all those who want to know about the specs and design of the device, you can check out the link below.

Next up! Xiaomi’s latest flagship smartphone — Mi 9

Mi 9 announced for global audiences

The Mi 9 flagship has been announced for global markets after being launched in China about 4 days ago.

Mi MIx 3 5G price

The Mi Mix 3 5G will be launched at 599 Euros and will be available starting from May. No information relating to the India launch.

How much could the price of a 5G Mi Mix 3 be?

Mi Mix 3 5G

All the specs seen on the Mi Mix 3 launched back in November are retained in the Mi Mix 3 5G. Now Donavan is reading out all the favourable reviews for the Mi Mix 3.

The Mi Mix 3 5G looks exactly like the original Mi Mix 3 and features almost all of the same stuff apart from the Qualcomm chip inside

Xiaomi 5G demo

Xiaomi makes history by making the first 5G call outside of China for the first time! Xiaomi wants to make sure that we know that this was real 5G and not fake 5G. Shots fired?

Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G Specs

Xiaomi Mi Mix 3S has been launched with Snapdragon 855 chipset with the X50 5G modem. The phone will have a 2 GBps download speeds, which means that you can download a high-res movie in 1 second.

We finally move on to the business end on things. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G!

Donavan Sung, Product Manager of Xiaomi Global is here

He has announced the Mi Mix 3 5G is here.

Qualcomm Snapdragon

Snapdragon 855 is the fastest mobile computing platform says Qualcomm and it will be the first commercially available 5G chipset. The AI engine in the chipset is nearly twice as fast as the competing Android chipset. Qualcomm’s Elite Gaming is going to be available in Xiaomi phones.

“5G deployment across the world will be much much faster than what we saw with 4G**”, says Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon**

#5G will offer ultra high speeds, low latency and wider connectivity over 4G LTE: @Xiaomi#MWC2019 pic.twitter.com/y4ErbrnwaS

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

Qualcomm is talking about 5G

Qualcomm will be on the forefront for the drive in 5G technology. Move to Gigabit bandwidth and low latency network will help in moving to cloud computing gaming and streaming will become even easier. 5G will let you connect to all the IoT devices around your house. Qualcomm will likely be making chipsets for a reliable 5G interface,

Qualcomm President Cristiano is now on stage

Qualcomm is explaining its relationship with Xiaomi and how it will be bringing its next-gen chipset into the phone.

To talk more on 5G and its use in smartphones, Cristiano Amon, President of  Qualcomm  Incorporated takes stage

Xiaomi explaining why 5G is going to be innovative

Xiaomi is going to drive the next innovation for the 5G race. Xiaomi has been studying for quite some time in terms of 5G. The company has been setting up 5G infrastructure in China to make a fast push to 5G. Xiaomi connected for the first time with 5G in September last year.

And… we have our first major fail on stage at this year’s MWC

.@xiaomi shows off its connected IoT products. But ooops, the goof up onstage! The air purifier wouldn't turn off with a command. pic.twitter.com/2Gmn6OSOGm

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

Xiaomi and 5G

Xiaomi will be making a lot of strides in 5G. We will be seeing a 5G Xiaomi phone quite soon. Xiaomi will be investing $1.5 billion in development of 5G products in its portfolio.

Xiaomi’s expecting a boom in IoT connectivity across the world with 5G becoming a reality this year

Xiaomi’s AI demo

Now we are seeing Xiaomi’s CEO demonstrating the smart LED and bulbs which can be connected to Xiaomi’s home network via Google’s Voice assistant. But it looks like they are facing an Oops moment on the stage. Technology these days. *Sigh*

Thought Xiaomi excels only in selling smartphones? Well the Chinese company also has the largest consumer IoT platform in the world!

Xiaomi’s IOT platform

The Chinese smartphone maker has added 132,000,000 + users on its connected wearables network.

Xiaomi users and growth

Xiaomi has 225,000,000 million MIUI users in the world, It is also the number one smartphone seller in Spain. Xiaomi is also number one in the wearables.segment in the world.

The Xiaomi event has begun

We will likely be seeing the launch of the Mi 9 for the global audience.

We are at the @xiaomi event at #MWC19. Stay tuned to know what’s coming... pic.twitter.com/L3W8W8ZHs2

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

Xiaomi’s event will begin shortly

The event was supposed to begin at 3.00 pm IST but we are still being treated to Xiaomi product videos.

Xiaomi Live stream for MWC

Xiaomi’s event is going to be held at 3.00 pm today IST. We are going to keep updating this live blog with all the latest updates. In case you wish to want the launch live you can check out the YouTube embed below.

Oppo unveiled its new 10X optical zoom technology 

Yesterday Oppo was active at MWC 2019 for unveiling its 10X lossless zoom technology which will be seen on Oppo’s next phone in 2019 H2. A 5G Oppo phone was also shown but it is as of now unnamed.

. @oppo has unveiled its 10X lossless camera zoom technology and also demoed an unnamed 5G phone at #MWC2019. https://t.co/NJH4lfQWk4

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 23, 2019

Our resident internetwaali @Nandiniwhy brings you a little glimpse of Barcelona, before #MWC19 officially kicks off today. pic.twitter.com/BoDAbE4r93

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) February 24, 2019

Xiaomi’s event will be begin at 3.00 pm IST

Xiaomi will be holding an event to unveil the Mi 9 Flagship smartphone. We might also see the folding phone from the company. If you need to know when and where to watch the event, check out the link below.

Welcome to the LIVE blog for MWC 2019

While MWC begins tomorrow officially, today we have Huawei, Xiaomi and Nokia making major announcements regarding new smartphones or technologies. Our live blog will run through the entire day and we shall keep you updated about the latest developments.