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| MWC 2014 |
Samsung-
Samsung's announcement brought the hotly anticipated Galaxy S successor. The Galaxy S5 improves on the S4 on all counts, with water-resistance, big camera sensor with 4K video capture, fingerprint and heart rate sensors as the headlining features.
The slightly bigger screen (just 0.1") and faster processor were a bit less exciting.
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| Samsung galaxy S5 |
Sony-
Sony was the other big player to unveil its flagship - the Xperia Z2 builds on its predecessor with 4K video capture, bigger screen (0.2" more) and lighter, but bigger, body. Sony has publicly adopted the two flagship updates per year, so this is really for Xperia Z owners. Z1 owners will probably have their upgrade later this year.
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| Sony xperia Z2 |
Sony also revamped its tablet - the Xperia Z2 Tablet is the thinnest Android tablet around and it's so light and pretty, it's a serious rival to the iPad Air and galaxy tab.
Nokia-
This time round Nokia had no lumia's flagship to show, but its event brought a big shift in strategy - the now Microsoft-owned phone division made Android-powered devices, three of them. Of course, former CEO and future Microsoft made it sure to stress that the Nokia X family uses Microsoft and Nokia services, not Google's.
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| Nokia X,X+ and XL |
LG-
LG unveiled the G2 sidekicks - the G Pro 2 phablet and the G2 mini compact phone - a couple of weeks before the MWC, but this was our first face to face meeting with the new gadgets. While the G Pro 2 is a serious challenger to the Galaxy Note 3, the G2 mini has some drawbacks - it's not much smaller than the G2 and its specs are thoroughly mid-range.
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| LG G2 pro and mini |
HTC-
HTC didn't put too much effort into the MWC - the ailing manufacturer only brought the Desire 816 phablet and that was only a dummy. We guess HTC is saving its ace for the end of March when the HTC One successor( HTC One Two) will be unveiled.
The HTC One itself won the Best Smartphone award at the MWC.
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| Htc One two |
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