Samsung’s next hardware event will coincide with Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company announced today it will host a fully virtual keynote on Sunday, February 27th at 1PM ET. You’ll be able to watch the event on Samsung’s website and the company’s YouTube channel. You’ll also find full coverage here at Engadget.
In years past, Mobile World Congress was one of the most important events in Samsung’s release calendar. Between 2014 and 2018, the company frequently took to Barcelona to announce its latest Galaxy S phones. However, after it came out with the Galaxy S9 in 2018, the company began instead to unveil those devices at its own Unpacked events. It’s easy to see why: while Samsung always dominated the MWC news cycle, it still shared the limelight with other phone makers, including Sony and LG.
And then the pandemic came. In 2020, the GSMA canceled the event. One year…
