All of the Prime New Devices at MWC 2025

Cellular World Congress, higher often known as MWC, is an annual tradeshow in Barcelona, the place most of the main gamers in cell get collectively to unveil new gadgets, announce providers, and make offers. It is now not the central hub of all the most recent and biggest smartphone bulletins because it was once, however there have been a couple of notable reveals this 12 months, together with loads of enjoyable ideas, AI, and different devices. WIRED has been trudging the halls of the present to seek out one of the best of one of the best—listed below are our high picks from MWC 2025.

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The Xiaomi 15 Extremely Is a Digicam King

{Photograph}: Simon Hill

MWC doesn’t see many flagship telephone releases anymore, however the Xiaomi 15 and 15 Extremely (8/10, WIRED Recommends) are worthy of fanfare and sure finest in present this 12 months. Each Android telephones are polished, with wonderful screens, robust battery life, quick charging, and silky efficiency. Xiaomi’s HyperOS can also be maturing, and model 2 is liberally seasoned with—you guessed it—AI options. They’re obtainable within the UK and Europe however gained’t land within the US. (The model hosted WIRED at its media occasion at MWC and paid for a portion of our reporter’s journey bills.)

My in-depth evaluate goes into the deep inside workings of those telephones, what I like and do not like. However neither comes low-cost—the Xiaomi 15 begins at £849 (999 euros) and the Extremely will set you again £1,299 (1,499 euros). The Extremely Pictures Package, which is a module that connects to at least one finish of the telephone, including devoted digicam controls and an extra battery, prices an additional £179 (199 euros).

Alongside the brand new handsets, Xiaomi confirmed off a slew of different gadgets. We received two new Android tablets, the Xiaomi Pad 7 and seven Professional, each with 11.2-inch screens and huge batteries—the Professional provides a quicker processor and higher digicam. Then there was the Harman-tuned Xiaomi Buds 5 Professional with energetic noise canceling, 8-hour battery life, and assist for AI transcription and translation. Rounding off the {hardware} bulletins have been the Xiaomi Watch S4—a barely improved model of final 12 months’s customizable Watch S3—and the oblong, health and health-focused Sensible Band 9 Professional. —Simon Hill

Nothing’s Two New Funds Telephones Are Dazzling

{Photograph}: Julian Chokkattu

Nothing has two new fashionable smartphones—the Telephone (3a) and Telephone (3a) Professional. They’re equivalent in almost each means besides the cameras. The Professional mannequin has a distinct 50-megapixel essential digicam that may seize extra mild because of bigger pixels, plus it has a 3X optical periscope lens, whereas the Telephone (3a) has a 2X optical digicam. These telephones are $379 and $459, respectively, and it’s an achievement in itself to have a flexible triple-camera setup on a sub-$500 telephone.