China has some big ideas about smartphones

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In this episode, what's old is new again, and what's new is... AI again. The Verge's Allison Johnson and Dominic Preston join David to discuss their experience at Mobile World Congress 2025, where they saw the latest devices from Xiaomi, Samsung, Realme, and others — and found themselves confronted with some big, surprising new ideas about how our smartphones should look and work. After that, Kevin Rose and Justin Mezzell talk about the process of bringing Digg back, and how AI can improve the way social networks operate. Digg got a lot of things right two decades ago, and plans to do it all over again now. Finally, we answer a question about printers from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email [email protected]!), with some help from Framework CEO Nirav Patel. Further reading: MWC 2025 was all about the odds and ends What if your phone’s camera was much, much bigger? You spin me right round, baby, right round. Xiaomi 15 Ultra review: ugly phone, beautiful camera Digg Reboot How Digg helped invent the social internet Digg is coming back, with founder Kevin Rose and Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of camera bump functionality.
0:08.0	I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am sitting here trying to decide which iPad is the best.
0:14.0	So I have the new mini, which came out last fall.
0:17.0	I have the new Air, which is coming out this week.
0:20.0	I have the N4 Pro, which came out like roughly this time last year.
0:24.7	And then I have the M2 Air, which is now last year's model, which also came out about a year
0:29.6	ago.
0:30.1	So basically, I have in my hands every iPad you can buy except for the new base iPad.
0:35.5	I've not tried that one yet.
0:37.3	I have lots of questions, but I generally think that the base iPad is the right iPad for most people.
0:43.3	So I both have to review the new ones, and I have to go back and update our iPad buying guide on the site.
0:49.3	So it requires a lot of like existential thinking about tablets that I found myself not ready for.
0:56.0	So if you have thoughts on how you use an iPad and how to basically pick between them for people,
1:02.2	I would love to hear them.
1:03.6	But until then, I'm just going to be playing games on all of these iPads.
1:08.1	And that's just what I do now.
1:09.5	This is my life.
1:10.5	Anyway, we are mostly not going to talk about iPads on this episode.
1:14.1	We're going to come back and do some more iPad stuff once I've had a chance to try the
1:17.8	base iPad, which will hopefully be soon.
1:20.4	Today on the show, we're going to do two things.
1:22.3	First, we're going to catch up with Allison Johnson and Dom Preston on our team. They were both at MWC, Mobile World Congress
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