Phones are going to get weird next week

Honor’s Robot Phone is acceptable to marque an appearance, and this clip we mightiness really spot it switched on. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge

With uncommon exceptions, phones are beauteous boring these days. The bully quality is, a boatload of those uncommon exceptions are astir to amusement up astatine once, courtesy of Mobile World Congress.

The tech industry's biggest mobile amusement whitethorn not rather person the clout it erstwhile did, erstwhile the likes of Samsung, Sony, LG, and HTC showcased caller flagships determination each year, but it inactive attracts much telephone launches than CES does 2 months earlier. It's particularly fashionable with the Chinese manufacturers who are inactive warring for abstraction successful the planetary market, on with niche manufacturers who crook up with extra-durable "rugged" devices, oregon artillery beasts that are much powe …

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