With recent Boston Consulting Group research indicating that 80 percent of the world population will be plugged into smartphones by 2020, mobile computing is evolving quickly to offer cheaper, more powerful devices. At the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, consumers were treated to visions of that progress with announcements from phone makers and service providers that stand out as some of the highlights of the mobile computing year.

But while many of the announcements target the tech-hungry public, if you read between the lines, some have the capacity to alter the way law is practiced, both in terms of how lawyers connect and the potential risks that could be giving them work in the near future.

Here are five highlights from the show (in no particular order) that are most relevant to the legal industry.