All the Top New Gadgets at MWC 2025

I won’t expound much more about Nothing’s latest because I spent nearly 2,000 words reviewing them—you can read my review here. The Phone (3a) is available starting today and it ships on March 11, but you’ll have to wait a little longer for the (3a) Pro as it goes on sale March 11 and ships on March 25. US buyers will need to sign up for Nothing’s beta program to purchase the phones. They work on T-Mobile, but on AT&T and Verizon, you’ll only get 4G—you’ll need to contact your carrier to whitelist the devices for 5G access. —Julian Chokkattu

Honor’s Screen-Reading AI Agent, Plus More New Gadgets

Photograph: Simon Hill

Photograph: Simon Hill

Honor already updated its flagship phone line this year, but it did have a new watch and earbuds to unveil at MWC. The regular rectangular Honor Watch 5 has been out for a while and resembles a knock-off Apple Watch, but the new Honor Watch 5 Ultra, which I’ve been wearing for the last week, has a round face. It’s lightweight, with a classy octagonal titanium case and a sapphire crystal face. It runs Honor’s OS, so functionality is limited, and you can’t add Wear OS apps, but the pay-off is strong battery life (Honor says up to 15 days, and I’m on course for around 12). The companion Honor Health Android app tracks your activity, workouts, and sleep, and you can change faces and set up notifications from your phone. It also has a diving depth capability of up to 30 meters. It costs €279.

The Honor Earbuds Open weigh just 7.9 grams and come in a nice faux leather charging case. Open earbuds are handy if you want to hear approaching traffic on a run, find ear tips uncomfortable, or worry about how gross earbuds can get when you jam them in your ears. It’s a growing market, and Honor clearly wants in. I found them very comfortable, with adjustable loops to wrap around your ears and speakers that sit over rather than in your ear canal. They offer Active Noise Cancellation should you want it, which works pretty well, and real-time AI translation when paired with something like the Honor Magic 7 Pro. The Honor Earbuds Open are €149.

Honor also showed WIRED its new AI agent that can read and understand your screen, executing tasks on your behalf without the need to integrate with third-party APIs. Its only controlled demo the company showed off was capable of booking a table at a restaurant via the OpenTable app. It wasn’t fast—the entire process played out on the screen and the user just had to watch—and it’s unclear just how well this screen-reading AI agent will work with multiple apps. But it’s early days for the tech, and this kind of AI agent is something every phone maker is trying to create. (The brand hosted WIRED at its media event at MWC and paid for a portion of our reporter’s travel expenses.) —Simon Hill

HMD Has a Smartphone Built for Teens

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

One in three children have been asked to take online conversations to private messaging apps, and nearly 40 percent have been exposed to harmful content, including sexual or violent material. That’s according to Finnish phone maker HMD, which commissioned a study in January 2025 that surveyed 12,393 parents and 12,331 children across six countries, including the US, UK, and India. HMD’s solution? The “first smartphone for teens.”