Here’s a compilation of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 held in Barcelona, Spain, the world’s biggest exhibition of new smartphones and mobile technology. The MWC basically offers a platform to see & showcase the latest trends in mobile and get a glimpse of where the global smartphone industry is heading. Across markets, the smartphone upgrading cycle is getting longer as smartphone users hold on longer to their devices, thanks to the improved device durability, uniform form factors, as well as stagnating software features, which further dampen global growth. Normal iPhone upgrade cycle lasts for at least four years, which has gone up from three in 2018. In short, people’s interest in new phones has gone down, because they are all the same in the look and feel except the new features or some add-ons they give from the previous models. The Future of Smartphones Unveiled A...