This phone starts fires on purpose

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 antithetic direction. Oukitel's WP63 rugged smartphone includes a built-in occurrence starter, and this is what it looks like:

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, The Verge's Dominic Preston joins Nilay to explicate the beingness of this peculiar mobile device, arsenic good arsenic wrapper up each the weird and fantastic gadgets he and the squad saw astatine MWC. There was besides a "robot phone" that dances to (and truthful far, lone to) "Believer" by Imagin …

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