AI gadgets, bendy phones, and more from MWC

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of region locked phones: The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Jon Porter report back on all the tech we saw at Mobile World Congress this past week. MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future What if phones actually bent to our needs? The Phone 2A makes a guest appearance at Nothing’s MWC event. The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t Samsung has big ambitions for the Galaxy Ring A short gif of Infinix’s color-changing charging E Ink phone concept. Now there’s a 28,000mAh battery with a phone in it Xiaomi’s new Watch S3 has a bezel you can swap as easily as a strap. Honor’s Magic 6 Pro launches internationally with AI-powered eye tracking on the way HMD is making a Barbie flip phone alongside a smartphone for tinkerers Later, David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about web crawlers and AI. With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgcast, the flagship podcast of region locked phones.
0:07.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am standing outside of the Alamo Draft House where I just saw Dune
0:12.1	part two. Now I don't know if I'm like the expert on whether
0:15.0	doing movies are any good. I saw part one just the other day on an iPad on a train.
0:20.9	I haven't read the books. I love the first movie.
0:23.3	Loved the second movie. It's really long, it's really intense, it's really loud.
0:27.3	I had a great time. Everybody should go see it.
0:29.5	Ideally on the biggest screen you can possibly find.
0:32.7	But Dune is not what we are here to talk about on the verge cast today.
0:36.2	Today we're talking about Mobile World Congress.
0:38.2	MWC is one of those trade shows that some years is kind of boring, it's just a bunch of companies being like
0:43.9	look on Android phone and some years is really interesting and this year was one of
0:48.4	those interesting years so we are gonna have John Porter and Allison Johnson
0:52.1	two Virge reporters who were at the show in
0:54.6	Barcelona over the past week and they're going to tell us about all the interesting gadgets
0:58.7	they saw and maybe whether we got a hint of what the future of gadgets really looks like.
1:04.9	All that's coming up in just a sec, but first I'm going to go home and sleep for a bit because
1:10.2	it's really late because that is a three hour long movie then we'll get to it.
1:14.4	This is the Virch Gas. See in a sec.
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