With Samsung Electronics Co., the world's No. 1 smartphone maker, out to prove its dominance at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 next week, smaller players are set to scramble for niche markets at one of the industry's highlight events. The event opens a month after the U.S. Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics Inc. and other Chinese and Japanese players fought it out for a technological lead in the display sector.