Best of MWC 2026: T3's award-winners from Mobile World Congress

It's March and that means it's the time of year when the mobile phone industry gets together for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It's the centre of the universe as far as the year's best phones and connected devices are concerned.

That also means the T3 tech team has been on the ground scouring the halls, taking meetings and attending launches – check it out on the MWC 2025 live blog here – to find the very best to receive a coveted T3 Best of MWC 2026 Award.

So check out our top 10 selections below, with details to show what makes each of them so special.

Lenovo Legion Go Fold Concept

In a category defying reveal – the Lenovo Legion Go Fold Concept combines tablet and portable gaming setup like no other. This 11.6-inch folding tablet comes in keyboard-toting work mode, but also offers gaming controller sides that let you use it as a handheld.

While this can work with the full-sized tablet screen, there is also the option to fold it down to 7-inches. That saves on space for commuting, for example, and also on battery to power that display.

While this is a very exciting new concept, it's exactly that right now – a concept design shown off at the show. Here's hoping getting a T3 Award is enough to bump this into full production soon, so anyone can lay their hands on one in the near future.

TCL NXTPaper 70 Pro

Another deserving member of the T3 Awards comes from TCL in the form of a smartphone that uses a next-level display. The TCL NXTPaper 70 Pro features a 6.9-inch FHD+ 120Hz NXTPaper 4.0 AMOLED Display.

As the name suggests, this gets you all the battery saving, reflection-free and anti-glare reading of a Kindle, yet with the resolution, colour and refresh rates of a flagship smartphone.

That should mean the best of both worlds with great battery performance, ease on your eyes, yet still with the capabilities to display anything you could need on a smartphone.

This also comes packing a 50-megapixel 1.0um OIS camera, up to 512GB storage and 24GB of RAM, plus a built-in stylus and AI smarts baked right in.

It even polarises the light, and uses blue light purification to mimic daylight, and ensure reduced visual tiredness even with extended use.

Eufy C28

The latest Eufy C28 comes with a 5-in-1 docking station and is a powerhouse of a robot vacuum that manages to keep the price down while packing in features.

Not only can this offer a powerful 15,000Pa of suction, but it'll keep going freely thanks to its anti-tangle DuoSpiral brush tech. That makes short work of dust and hair alike. It mops too, using the HydroJet roller mopping system.

That 5-in-1 station is there for dust emptying, mop washing, water refilling, hot-air drying, and wastewater collection, all without you having to touch a thing. It makes this a genuine clean-it-all solution for extended periods without human interaction needed. That – and now this award – could make the C28 one of the best robot vacuum cleaners around.

Crucially, all this is priced at an impressively affordable £649 or €599 – a great option for those that won't go for the due-soon flagship Eufy Omni S2.

Honor Magic V6

The Honor Magic V6 has taken MWC by storm – despite plenty of other phones launching too – with the claim that its best folding phone to date is packing the biggest battery too.

At just 8.75mm when folded, and with 7.95-inch unfolded and 6.52-inch folded screens, the Magic V6 manages to also cram in a whopping 6,660mAh battery.

It's got a crease depth that's been reduced by 44% over its predecessor, as well, while still offering a 120Hz refresh rate.

Everything is backed by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip – making it the first foldable the company has released with a flagship-level processor at its core. Honor has gone all in.

Anker Soundcore Space 2

The Anker Soundcore Space 2 headphones play to the company's strength of offering high-quality audio performance at a more affordable price than a lot of the other best noise-cancelling headphones. This model has had some serious sonic upgrades over the first gen.

These cans come packing Hi-Res certification, LDAC support for lossless, plus 40mm drivers for plenty of power and range. Battery life is also impressive, with 50 hours of ANC use on a charge, or 70 hours with ANC off. Plus, a five-minute charge will give you a massive four hours of listening.

The noise-cancelling has been enhanced with a focus on low-frequency, making these ideal for flights or commutes where engines and track sounds can be cut out. All that and the cost stays low at just £129.99 / $129.99 / €129.99, in white, black or minty green.

Xgimi MemoMind Memo One

Xgimi – the projector brand – showed off its sub-brand, MemoMind, at MWC with new AI smart glasses, called the Memo One.

These glasses feature displays in either lens, but there is also a single display model call the Memo Air Display that's incoming.

The displays in the Memo One are clear and the ability to control size and positioning is helpful. The design is compact and elegant, too.

The MemoMind Memo One smart glasses are certainly "a solid start" in an all-new category.

Lenovo Qira

Lenovo has made it into our Best of Show3 Awards twice with its second win landed by the co-created Qira.

Made in conjunction with sub-brand Motorola, this is a system-level AI which makes it context aware across Lenovo and Motorola devices. That should mean an always present, always understanding, intelligent assistant that works with you.

This should understand what you're working on, adapt to your tone, help you write, summarise for you, answer questions and even work offline across devices.

This could be the AI assistant that makes things far easier, as you'd imagined – and hoped – for AI to actually be.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

It wouldn't be MWC without a Samsung unveil of a new major flagship smartphone and 2026 stays true with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. All new panel tech and a refined design make this quite possibly the Android phone to have.

Standing out this year is the new Privacy Display, which means anyone sitting either side of you can't see your screen, while it remains perfectly clear for you – the ultimate privacy support for public use.

The cameras have also had a serious bump with upgraded, faster apertures and a 5x telephoto lens, all in a newly designed enclosure.

You get a 6.9-inch QHD+ AMOLED display with 2600 nits brightness and 1-120Hz refresh rate. And there's super-fast 60W wired charging on board.

And that's all in a thinner, sexier case – at just 0.7mm at its thickest point.

Honor Robot Phone

Another T3 Awards entry for Honor this year comes in the form of the Honor Robot Phone. This, as the name suggests, combines robotics and phone smarts to give a more intelligent interaction.

The gimbal arm allows the camera to move up and over so as to follow your movements, responding to hand gestures, as a way to let you take AI control from a distance.

The gimbal arm can even emote, shaking to answer negatively for example, or nodding up and down for a positive response. And it dances along in time to music.

That gimbal also makes for buttery smooth video, even while jogging.

This phone will be available in the second half of 2026. Here's hoping it lands outside of China.

Oukitel WP63

The Oukitel WP63 is the tough phone made for everything life can throw at it, including in extreme circumstances. And it can even start fires. On purpose.

This smartphone packs in a truly long-distance 20,000mAh battery for serious stamina when adventuring. Then, should you need to make a fire, you can use the built-in igniter to get sparking.

The WP63 also features powerful loud speakers for clear audio, even in noisy environments. And, of course, you get a camping light for low-light nighttime experiences. Never head to the woods without it.