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At MWC, Tecno’s super-thin modular concept phone doesn’t even have a wired charging port

On its own, at 4.9mm thin, Tecno’s modular phone concept barely feels like a smartphone. It has a screen, a basic camera module, four low-profile pogo-pin connectors and that’s about it. From there, you can seemingly build your conceptual phone however you want.

At its booth at MWC 2026, Tecno had two families of modular components in two different colorways, which is surprising at this concept stage. The chunky telephoto lens and housing must weigh over three times as much as the base phone, adding up to 20x zoom capabilities, even if it was a little glitchy during my hands-on. The barrel also offers manual focus, which is always a nice touch. The lens itself is huge, though, making even Vivo’s latest 400mm telephoto lens peripheral look reasonable by comparison.

Image by Mat Smith for Engadget

There are more subtle camera modules, including ultrawide options and a more streamlined periscope telephoto. There’s even an action cam that can attach through Wi-Fi and be used on its own. Depending on the module, transmission is also done through Bluetooth and even mmWave. One module has an antenna that folds out, turning the phone into a walkie-talkie messenger… thing that can …read more

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Vivo’s X300 Ultra goes global and gets a huge 400mm Zeiss telephoto lens

Vivo barely has a presence outside of China but that seems to be changing with the company’s next flagship phone. At Mobile World Conference 2026, the company unveiled the X300 Ultra smartphone that comes with a 200MP telephoto sensor, along with multiple accessories designed for pro photographers and content creators, including a SmallRig video cage and 400mm Zeiss telephoto extender lens.

Vivo didn’t go into detail about the phone’s specs, but you can likely expect a high-end processor, screen, battery and other internal components when it’s fully unveiled later on. Vivo did say that like the X300 Pro, the X300 Ultra will have an impressive 200MP telephoto sensor, and is likely to offer features like 4K 120fps Dolby Vision HDR recording. Vivo’s Daniel Goetz said it couldn’t yet reveal the specs for its primary camera sensor — which will likely be deeply involved with the new device’s push into video.

Mat Smith for Engadget

Another thing Vivo revealed is that you’ll be able to get the Vivo X300 Ultra with a 400mm equivalent lens accessory called the Vivo Zeiss Telephoto Extender Gen 2 Ultra. That will allow about an 8x zoom compared to the native field-of-view, plus much …read more

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How may US-Iran War impact your pocket? How much may prices of diesel, petrol and cooking gas increase? How may it hit Indian economy?

The ongoing US-Iran war is most likely to hit the Indian economy and the burden is most likely to fall on the masses. The oil marketing companies are likely to increase the prices of petrol, diesel, and LPG. How much will you pay for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini? …read more

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Sony faces a $2.7 billion antitrust lawsuit in the UK

Another major antitrust lawsuit has launched in the UK. This time its against Sony, which could be on the hook for almost £2 billion ($2.7 billion) for overcharging PlayStation users. 

A class action case for about 12.2 million users argues that Sony “occupies a dominant position in relation to the digital distribution of PlayStation games and in-game content and that it has been unfairly charging its UK customers too much for digital games and in-game content purchased through the PlayStation Store.”

It argues that Sony “has a near monopoly” on add-on content and digital games through the PlayStation store, allowing it to set the prices and take a 30 percent commission.

The class action encompasses anyone in the UK who owned a PlayStation console and purchased digital games or made in-game purchases through the PlayStation store between August 19, 2016 and February 12, 2026. It’s being run as an opt-out lawsuit, so anyone meeting the criteria can qualify without taking any action. If the lawsuit is successful then each person could receive about £162 ($217). 

Sony has argued that allowing downloads from third-party stores could bring security and privacy risks, according to the Financial Times. It further states that the digital sales …read more

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Oh great, here comes 6G

Illustration showing 6G in bold lettering.
It’s like 5G, but one more. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

It brings me no pleasure to say this, but friends: The next G cometh.

The standard formally known as 6G is still being established, but it’s going to be a major topic of discussion at Mobile World Congress 2026, which gets started today in Barcelona.

5G arrived back in 2019, but also, did it, entirely? You may have noticed a distinct lack of the robot surgeons and streets dominated by autonomous vehicles that standard was supposed to enable in your daily life. Like the Gs that arrived before, 5G continues to evolve through new “releases” every few years – a case of incremental progress that couldn’t possibly live up to all that hype. Tha …

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Everything announced at MWC 2026: Lenovo’s wild foldable gaming handheld, Honor’s Robot Phone, and more

How silly does this look when its flexible display is fully extended in portrait mode?

MWC 2026 kicks off today, running from March 2 through March 5, but announcements were pouring in all weekend in the lead-up to its official start. We can always count on the annual tech event to bring tons of new phones, laptops and tablets, and we’re expecting to see some robots and other gadgets too — plus plenty of AI news, of course. In addition to the announcements, MWC is our chance to get hands-on time with some of the most interesting new devices, like the Xiaomi 17 Ultra and Honor’s Robot Phone, and concepts like the Legion Go Fold.

Engadget’s Mat Smith is on the ground in Barcelona, and we’ll be updating this story as the week goes on to keep you in the loop on everything that caught our attention. Keep checking back here for the latest MWC news. 

Lenovo

How silly does this look when its flexible display is fully extended in portrait mode?
Sam Rutherford for Engadget

Lenovo pulled up to MWC with a bunch of new products and concepts, but if there’s one thing everyone’s going to be talking about, it’s the Legion Go Fold. (Check out …read more

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Tecno’s latest concept phone is lit by neon

Render of Tecno Pova Neon
The Neon supposedly includes actual neon lighting in the rear. | Image: Tecno

After teasing a magnetic, modular smartphone concept the other day, Tecno has followed that up with another two phone designs centered around color-changing finishes: one with E Ink, and the other incorporating neon.

I’m the most taken with the Pova Neon, which the company says includes genuine neon lighting, not just bright colors: it uses “ionized inert gas lighting technology” to create a glowing effect.

By contrast the AI EInk builds color electronic ink into the rear of the phone, allowing you to change the phone’s color on the fly. Perhaps more impressively, you’re able to set the color using the camera, so you could make your phone …

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