AI Takes Center Stage on Deutsche Telekom's Perplexity Phone and I Tried It Out

With every passing tech launch it feels like generative AI is invading more and more devices, especially as companies position their AI features front and center as the primary reason we should consider buying their products. There's no better example of this than the AI Phone (the clue's in the name, really), a smartphone designed by carrier Deutsche Telekom (DT) together with OpenAI competitor Perplexity and announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. I got a first-hand look at an early version of the AI phone in DT's hot pink booth at MWC and was shown a demo of how Perplexity has been integrated into the device. The one thing that struck me immediately was the extent to which DT has chosen to push AI into the foreground. It's something that I expect we'll only see more of in the coming year, most likely in partnerships between specialist AI companies and phone makers. The AI assistant is activated by either the pink button on the side of the phone or by a dedicated ... Read full article.