Yesterday, with a new attendance record, the most important event in the world on mobile devices and technology came to an end. For 4 days the city of Barcelona has been immersed in the news of the big brands of telephony and has had walking through its streets to great gurus of the digital world, as the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. In this article we tell you which are the 6 must-see news from the Mobile World Congress that will almost completely change the way we understand mobile and the Internet.
5 must-see news from the Mobile World Congress
- Virtual reality glasses. One of the most emblematic photos of this Mobile World Congress has been the one that starred Mark Zuckerberg at virtual reality conference.. Companies such as Samsung and LG are betting heavily on the 360 degree videos, The new technologies, which allow the user to feel that they are living an experience very close to reality, will undoubtedly benefit the most from this type of innovation. Undoubtedly, the sector that will benefit most from this type of innovation will be the video game industry, one of the sectors that currently generates the most money.
- eSIM. The SIM card as we know it is doomed to disappear. Thanks to the eSIM or virtual SIM, we will be able to say goodbye to roaming and easily sign up for a local tariff in a foreign country as soon as you get off the plane. In addition, we will be able to use the same phone number or the same contract on as many devices as we want (specifically, those allowed by the operator). Similarly, it will also be possible to have more than one phone number on the same device.
- Connected vehicles. This year the major automotive brands have been of immense importance at the Mobile World Congress. We will only talk about some of the most important innovations, such as those proposed by SEAT: The brand is betting on an application with which the user can reserve a private parking space from the cell phone before arriving. Continuing with SEAT, it is worth mentioning a solution with which the owner of the car can enable another person to use the car without being in the same place, all through the smartphone! As for BMW, it has presented the project Vehicular Small Cells, which automatically provides a wireless connection to all devices in the car.
- 5G connectivity. According to experts at the Mobile World Congress, we could have 5G connectivity on our smartphones by 2020. To illustrate the speed of this new type of connection, we only need to imagine that we want to download 3 seasons of Game of Thrones in HD. In just 1 second we could have it on our mobile! Thanks to 5G, we will also be able to forget about latencyIf we want to listen to a soccer match broadcast over the Internet, we can do it in real time. Thanks to the speed of the connection, we will not notice the difference between a web page and the local FM.
- New payment methods. According to Xataka,MasterCard has announced at Mobile World Congress the upcoming launch of its new biometric identification technology. «selfie pay», The new card, which will allow users to validate their purchases through a photograph, leaving aside the classic passwords. And, although it may sound like science fiction, MasterCard is also working on a new method of authentication through heartbeats. Thanks to the wristband developed by Nymi, we can identify ourselves using our electrocardiogram. Although it is not as reliable as a fingerprint, the company argues that it is an ideal resource for secure identification.