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Daily Authority: 👉 Everything coming to MWC 2022
August 21, 2025
☕ Good morning! It’s Tuesday 2/22/22, aka Twosday! A Google search of “2/22/22” will see Google shower you in confetti that reads “Happy Twosday 2 You!,” in case you want to feel something.
MWC 2022 gets warmer
Coming up across today and the week to come: the big Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is set from Monday, February 28, running until Thursday, and there’ll be pre-event launches as well.
Here’s my list of reveals, based on teasers and announcements, and pre-event releases that are happening as early as right now.
What to expect: Pre-event
During MWC:
Possible new tech?
Otherwise:
😬 Welp,the OnePlus 10 Pro broke in half in the classic JerryRig durability test. Am I right or wrong that the last phone that snapped was the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel 2?(Android Authority).
📸 Here’swhen your Samsung phone will get the Expert RAW camera app: goes back to the S20 Ultra/Z Fold 2, but no earlier phones(Android Authority).
👉Redmi K50 Pro leaks: What a POCO F4 Pro or Xiaomi 12i could look like?(Android Authority).
🔜Amazon just spilled the beanson upcoming POCO phone that we’ll see next week, most likely(Android Authority).
😢 It’s official:The BlackBerry revival is deadas Onward Mobility shuts down(Android Authority).
🍎Apple reportedly completes production testsfor AR/VR headset(MacRumors).
📺 In a strategic shift,Roku is seriously planning to make its own TV sets(Ars Technica).
🤔 Microsoft is testinga Windows 11 desktop watermark for unsupported hardware: annoying warning or helpful?(The Verge).
📸Panasonic’s 25-megapixel GH6is the highest resolution Micro Four Thirds camera yet(Engadget).
📉Virgin Hyperloop lays offhalf of its employees: will shift from passengers to a cargo focus (The Verge).
⛔You can’t copyright AI-created art, according to US officials(Engadget).
🍩Sony LinkBuds WF-L900 review: 6/10(SoundGuys).
🥊StreetFighter’s logo looks like someone bought it off Adobeas clipart for $80. What’s the real logo?? (Kotaku).
▶TikTok wants longer videos— whether you like it or not(Wired).
🌞 “Since the sun’s upper atmosphere is hotter than the surface, and we’ve already sent spacecraft through the upper atmosphere —what is stopping us from sending a spacecraft close to the surface of the sun?” (r/askscience). What is hot, anyway?
Chart Tuesday
Supercomputers continue to grow and the gap between the world’s top supercomputer and the rest is pretty enormous:
Calculating at about 0.001 operations per second,
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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