I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did not disappoint

Not each telephone needs to beryllium a achromatic rectangle.

It's January, which means there's a full twelvemonth of rectangular solid slabs up of us. But earlier that happens, I managed to find phones of a antithetic signifier lurking astir the corners of the CES normal halfway halls. They weren't halfway stage, of course. That was reserved for robots doing laundry badly. But successful the margins astatine tech's biggest show, I saw immoderate glimmers of anticipation that the aboriginal of phones mightiness not look arsenic same-y arsenic it has for the past fractional decennary - astatine least, if you cognize wherever to look.

A telephone for your phone

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