This Phone Starts Fires On Purpose

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Travis Larchuk

Travis Larchuk produces The Vergecast and Version History.

Until now, astir mobile telephone companies person worked to guarantee their phones won’t commencement fires. (Occasional Samsung devices excepted, of course.) But this week astatine Mobile World Congress, we recovered a institution that dared to spell successful a different direction. Oukitel’s WP63 rugged smartphone includes a built-in occurrence starter, and this is what it looks like:

Turn connected phone. Push button. Fires.

On this section of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Dominic Preston joins Nilay to explicate nan beingness of this peculiar mobile device, arsenic good arsenic wrap up each nan weird and awesome gadgets he and nan squad saw astatine MWC. There was besides a “robot phone” that dances to (and truthful far, only to) “Believer” by Imagine Dragons.

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But earlier each that, we stock a uncommon infinitesimal of unfiltered gadget joy. Nilay conscionable had “the azygous astir unthinkable acquisition I’ve ever had watching a movie successful my house, successful my full life,” acknowledgment to nan Kaleidescape 8TB solid-state server. Scenes of rainfall aliases confetti person ne'er looked better. This is each it takes to make Nilay happy.

In nan lightning round: Audience metrics bespeak Verge readers are much willing successful the Kobo Remote than astir of Apple’s caller merchandise announcements, Dom’s charging his phone connected a li’l racing car, and Sean’s connected nan integrative ceramic hit pinch Clear Drop’s Soft Plastic Compactor and disappointment astir the Lego smart brick’s debut playsets. Plus, Brendan Carr is still a dummy.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, first connected MWC:

And connected Google / Epic:

And successful nan lightning round:

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