It was inevitable that this year in MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a great effort to build a smartphone with the highest AI company. And here it is: T-Mobile, Mobile Telco OWND by Deutsche Telekom (DT), said it builds a “AI phone”, a cheap phone created in close collaboration with confusion, along with Picsart and Osers, a new AI auxiliary application that calls.
T-Mobile said it would present the device in the second half of this year and will start selling it in 2026 for less than $ 1,000.
“We are becoming AI,” said Claudia Nemat, a member of the DT board of directors, who oversees technology and innovation in Telecom. It will not be building the basic models of large languages, he quickly added: “But we do AI agents.”
The news is the latest development in the well -known story from the world of telecommunications. For years, carriers – both mobile and solid – have sought ways to better compete with technology companies. Specifically, they focused as Apple and Google, which created operating systems and phones that have largely cut off the telecommunications companies from the equation in terms of making money around applications and “possessing” this customer relationship.
No matter, confusion plays a key role in the development of the phone – a signal on how to start, best known for its generative AI search engine, takes steps to create “proactive” products.
The mass and Deutsche Telekom cooperated on sale in April 2024, and DT first talked about the “AI phone” before the whole year, last year’s mobile world congress event.
“The confusion is that it is merely a response to an action machine,” said ARAVIND Srinivas, co -founder and CEO of Masné. “It will start to do things for you, not just answer the questions.” It will be able to book flights for you, book reservations for you, send e -maily for you, send messages, place phone calls for you, and all those kinds of things like Smart Settings.
He did not get into many details of hardware, such as equipment specifications, nor did she provide information about who is building it and on which operating system it will run (from rendering the concept it looks like the taste of Android). However, she did not notice that the phone was baked by AI, with experience building a confused “so you can experience a full Monty,” she added: “AI on the lock screen.
Other services on the phone will include AI from Google Cloud, Elevenlabs and Picsart, T-Mobile said.
Magenta AI, which will be an AIS-based version, will be available for those who want to install it on your own Android or iOS-if you are already one of T-Mobile’s 300 million customers, Nemat said.
Tilt for contemporary fashion for all AI things – this year in the MWC ubiquitous topic – AI phone is the latest attempt to get a little stronger runner. The Society for Confusion of Competitions with similar not only very well capitalized Openai and anthropic in terms of building new AI tools for consumers, but also large technology companies such as Google that baked their Gemini AI.
Here it seems that confusion will lean into the next phase of how AI can improvise a living.
“These are the kind of things you would have to do in your own way and learn how to use these different applications,” Srinivas said. “All these things will become easier to concentrate your time and energy to solve problems…. This is really another phase where AI (IS) moves out that it is only reactive and let you enter challenges in something that is native on your phone, always listens to you and can (…) actively help you. ”
It remains to see where T-Mobile, confusion or stand will be able to burst the notorious complex market of smartphones, dominated by a small number of companies and have seen leviatans such as LG cash in their chips and back. Yet it shows how magnetic the move AI is right now, as even older companies see a possible panacea and how the top startups are looking for safe ditches in the middle of hard competition.