Friday, February 19

MWC 2016—What to expect at the world’s biggest smartphone show

Mobile World Congress is easily the biggest mobile phone show of the year. While its January cousin, CES, may be waning in mobile relevance, MWC still reliably brings us major new flagship smartphones every year. Last year saw the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and HTC One M9, but what should we expect this year? What follows is a roundup of the more believable rumors that are floating around out there.

Samsung, LG, and Xiaomi all have events at the show, and are all expected to launch their new flagships. The major additions to just about every 2016 Android flagship will be the new Snapdragon 820, and with the addition of Android 6.0 Marshmallow's fingerprint reader support, if a device didn't come with a fingerprint reader before, it will now.

Samsung Galaxy S7—The S6 design gets a spec bump and 3D Touch

Samsung typically headlines the MWC festivities, and this year a big "Galaxy Unpacked 2016" press event is scheduled for February 21. Samsung launched the all-new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge at Mobile World Congress 2015, and this year we can expect it to follow the same formula with the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.

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