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Sony announces a successor to last year's super-tall Xperia 1 flagship-- the Xperia 1 II (Mark two), a device featuring a 21:9 6.5-inch OLED HDR display and, in a first for the company, 5G connectivity.

Revealed at the Sony MWC replacement livestream, the Xperia 1 II is a handset with a focus set firmly on photography. It carries a triple-lens camera incorporating "industry-leading" Sony Alpha technology and specially calibrated Zeiss optics. The three cameras feature a 12MP sensor, together with with a 24mm, f/1.7 lens with a 82-degree field of view, a 70mm f/2.4 lens with a 34-degree field of view and a 16mm f/2.2 lens with a 124-degree field of view. Also included is 3D time-of-flight sensor for enhanced zoom, while the front has an 8MP selfie camera with a f/2.0 lens with an 84-degree field of view.

Huawei had a tablet announcement in store for MWC 2020, but since the Barcelona event is cancelled it just had to do it the regular way-- the MatePad Pro 5G, a self-explanatory 5G update of the iPad Pro-style MatePad Pro.

Announced last year for the Chinese market, the MatePad Pro is a high-end Android tablet. It features a 10.8-inch 16:10 aspect ratio AMOLED touchscreen complete with a punch hole for an 8MP front-facing camera. Display resolution clocks at 2560 x 1600, and Huawei claims it has a screen-to-body ratio of no less than 90%. The display is also allows for pen input, specifically through the (not included) M-Pencil stylus.

HTC expands the Vive Cosmos VR headset line with three models-- the Cosmos Elite, Cosmos Play and Cosmos XR, all offering swappable faceplates while being aimed at different segments of the consumer market.

“Our customers want an incredible VR experience and we are proud to announce a new family of products tailor-made for VR use-cases of all types,” the company says. “Vive Cosmos is truly the most versatile headset yet. From consumers just discovering VR for the first time to the demanding business user, Vive Cosmos offers stellar quality, comfort, and the ability to evolve VR and XR journeys over time-- from changing faceplates to adding options like wireless.”

Gigabyte quietly adds four Intel Comet Lake-U powered models to the Brix ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) PC line, all ideal for a number of applications, including consumer, office and even commercial.

Brix UCFF PCs are barebones models based on Intel 10th generation Core (Comet Lake-U) processors. The four base models on offer feature the Core i7-10710U with six cores, the Core i7-10510U and Core i5-10210U with four cores, and the two-core Core i3-10110U. Customers can equip all systems with up to 64GB DDR4-2666 memory with two SO-DIMMS, an M.2-2280 SSD with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface and a 2.5-inch SSD or HDD via SATA 6Gbps interface.