From chocolate phones to bending screens and handheld batteries that can make calls, this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona served as a showcase for how unique phones are still possible — even after years of touchscreen slabs running iOS and Android.
And it wasn’t just phone-inspired creations. Robot dogs and electric cars also made the show floor their home this past week, combining for an eclectic mix of technology to check out.
Here are the most attention-grabbing sights that we’ve seen at this year’s Mobile World Congress.
T Phone concept makes AI do the app work for you
We’ve now seen a number of artificial intelligence concepts that advertise how the technology could replace your phone by responding to your commands instead of your taps. The T Phone concept, a collaborative effort from Deutsche Telekom and Brain.AI, still uses a handheld device but taps into AI to help streamline the tasks you ask it to do.
When you ask it to help you book a flight, for example, AI will research flight options and then assemble that information in a visual way to help you make your purchase. It looks a lot like it could be an existing flight app, but it was actually conjured up based on the request.
Another way to put the concept: Instead of having to remember what app you need to do what, you instead ask the T Phone, and AI does all the searching for you from that point. And then if you ask follow-up questions, the T Phone will tweak what it shows based on your needs.
Motorola’s chocolate Razr
Sometimes, when attending a press event, tech companies putting on demos will provide various refreshments. Motorola decided to re-create its Razr phone in chocolate as its own snack for visiting journalists.
This edible edition of the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra…
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