It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a major AI company. And here it is: T-Mobile, the mobile telco owned by Deutsche Telekom,

Deutsche Telekom (DT) revealed it would be building a low-cost “AI Phone,” in collaboration with AI company Perplexity and others, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC)

Claudia Nemat, Board Member for Technology and Innovation, presented the AI Phone with the digital assistant from Perplexity. Image: Deutsche Telekom eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent.