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World Service,02 Mar 2018,23 mins

Mobile World Congress 2018

Tech Life

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Nokia reissues the 90s classic 8110 "banana phone" - Florian Seiche, the chief executive of HMD Global, the company behind the brand, tells us why he hopes the device will encourage some people to use phone apps for the first time. We also speak to the designer of the original 8110, Andrea Finke-Anlauff, about mobile phone design today. Plus, the boss of Huawei's consumer business Richard Yu declares the Chinese company's ambitions to become the world's leading handset maker, ahead of Samsung and Apple. And tech analysts Ben Wood from CCS Insight and Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies give their take on the state of the mobile phone industry. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC technology reporter Chris Foxx. (Image: People arriving at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2018, Credit: PAU BARRENA/ AFP/ Getty Images).

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