Yesterday, a number of companies held previews of their wares.

Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri said the company it would combine its WPON technology with Facebook’s 60MHz Terragraph technology to deliver gigabit broadband to the home with trials starting this year.

The two companies are also collaborating to accelerate the 802.11ay 60MHz WLAN standard.

Huawei previewed its MateBook X Pro laptop and MediaPad tablet 5 family, both of which are to launch in the Spring.

Samsung showed off its Galaxy S9 smartphone which looks the same as the S8 but with some novel camera capabilities.

Bullitt has a sniffer smartphone that can smell, ZTE launched its Blade V9, LG added extra RAM and two extra colours to its V30 series

Things might improve when, later today, Sony and Google make their presentations.

MWC is an opportunity to remark on how similar everyone’s phone looks nowadays, which may account for the slowing sales.