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wood1208 said:

Apple never participated in MWC but Apple's silent presence is always there, felt.

It isn't.

MWC is an industry fair NOT a CE fair.

The focus of the fair is not handsets. This is the kind of stuff that is dealt with:

http://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/mwc2019

hammeroftruth said:

Qualcomm is using 5G as a stick to beat anyone with. 

Does anyone really believe that 5G will be widely available by the end of 2020? I don’t. 

look how long 4G and LTE took. Plus most of the carriers are complaining the 5G hardware they need won’t play nice with existing hardware. Reminds me of when broadcasters had to switch to HD. It wasn’t pretty. 

5G will roll out faster than 4G as 5G NSA uses upgraded LTE infrastructure and, if Huawei is used, will be cheaper, lighter and faster to install.

5G SA will be a different story but will again be relatively fast - politics permitting.

ericthehalfbee said:

MWC revolves around Apple.

Even though they don't attend, all anyone can do is compare their products to Apple products.

It doesn't. 

Tell where Huawei can compare its products to Apple's. Smartphones? What about all the rest?

If that is what you think MWC is all about (phones)? You literally couldn't be more wrong.

Is Apple laying fibre-optic cables on the seabed across the oceans? Does it make anything like Tiangang? Balong? Ascend? Graphene enhanced batteries? mastheads?

Let's say just about everything involved with mobile communications.

MWC is more about the communications infrastructure behind the devices themselves than anything else.

The meat and potatoes of MWC is the communications giants and industry bodies.

Device makers take advantage of it to announce new products but while folding phones may have caught the attention of the tech and mass media, neither the Galaxy Fold nor the Mate X were even announced during MWC. They were announced before it started.

Huawei has held lots of sessions and held keynotes during these four days - none of which made it into the mass media.

That's because it concerned boring stuff like mastheads, antennas, 5G roll out plans, carriers etc - all the stuff that is a behind the mobile device.

There was a lot of contract signing, communications politics, security politics etc.

The entire focus of MWC19 (and 18) has been 5G.

Five or six years ago there was the big debate about whether carriers should charge content creators for filling carrier networks to bursting point as well as charging end users. Little of that made it into the mass media news pieces but there was a huge debate on the subject.

So while device makers are here in force (I'm in Barcelona right now) and taking advantage of the gathering to promote their gear, it is simply that - media attention for free. That means that while Oppo and Xiaomi for example have made announcements, the real task at hand has been establishing distribution, support and carrier agreements in the EU.

Apple has little to no role in the communications industry. It has no influence at all and never has on what goes on at MWC. 

The whole part on Huawei was so wrong and distant from reality that it begged belief.

EsquireCats said:

Being first also means shipping a not-quite-there technology at an exorbitant price.

Apple have expensive products out there, but they're not shitty expensive products.

The Huawei phone literally has a bunch of crinkles in the screen when folded open.

My understanding is that the hinge stretches the screen during the unfolding process.

Richard Yu has stated that the phone could ship tomorrow if it weren't for external factors that are being finalised now.

People who have actually held the phone have not made any negative comments on a 'bunch of crinkles'. 

https://bgr.com/2019/02/27/huawei-mate-x-hands-on-foldable-phone-mwc-2019/

I have yet to see ANY comment from anyone who has actually seen or held the phone claiming it to be 'shitty'.

For that, we will have to wait for a final review unit.