Anchor: The Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest mobile fair, will kick off in Barcelona on Monday. Prior to the opening major global smartphone vendors, including South Korea’s LG Electronics, boosted excitement by unveiling new flagship models. KBS checked out the latest at the MWC. 
Our Alannah Hill has more.
 
Report: LG Electronics has launched its latest smartphone model, the G6, a follow-on from the unsuccessful G5.
 
The new model sports a five-point-seven inch display which has been widened to cover the entire front of the phone. The home button on the front has also been moved to the back of the device, which has no bezels around its edges.
 
Head of LG's smartphone product planning team, Hwang Sang-yeon, explained that the screen has also been changed to an ultra-wide 18:9 aspect ratio to reflect consumers’ opinions.
 
[Sound bite: Hwang Sang-yeon - Head, smartphone product planning team-LG Electronics (English)]
“Its aspect ratio is 18:9. The aspect ratio of incumbent devices is 16:9 but as people love bigger screen with smaller body, we tried to do this this time with 18:9."
 
China’s Huawei has also revealed its new products which the company expects will help shake off its image as a cheap phone vendor and pave the way for its success in the premium smartphone market.
 
Huawei’s P10 and P10 Plus are the follow-up models of the P9, which has been sold to more than ten million users across the world.
 
Samsung Electronics released an official teaser of the next Galaxy model. Samsung will simultaneously launch its new flagship product, the Galaxy S8, in New York and London next month.
 
Around two-thousand-200 companies from more than 200 countries are participating in the latest MWC which runs until Thursday.
 
Held under the theme of “The Next Element”, the mobile fair will also likely shed light on artificial intelligence and convergence service based on fifth-generation wireless technologies.
Alannah Hill, KBS World Radio News.