Speaker 1: Unique gadgets from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. I'm
Speaker 1: rich Demiro and this is rich on Tech Daily. So
Speaker 1: every year the mobile industry heads to Barcelona, Spain for
Speaker 1: a show called Mobile World Congress. This is basically like
Speaker 1: a meeting of the minds for all the big players
Speaker 1: in the wireless industry.
Speaker 2: They are all there.
Speaker 1: They talk about the future of mobile internet wireless technologies,
Speaker 1: and of course some of the mobile carriers and companies
Speaker 1: show off new gadgets.
Speaker 2: Now, I have never been to this show.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that it's one that I always want
Speaker 1: to go to, But I've never made it over there,
Speaker 1: But I do follow it and get to see some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that's launched over here. Let's start with Nokia.
Speaker 1: They're bringing back the iconic eighty one ten, which was
Speaker 1: quickly coined by bloggers the banana phone because it resembled
Speaker 1: a banana. The eighty one ten has an easy to
Speaker 1: use interface, but this time around you also get popular
Speaker 1: apps like Google Maps, and yes, there's even a reboot
Speaker 1: of the game Snake.
Speaker 2: We all had a Nokia back in the day.
Speaker 1: This is obviously playing on our nostalgia. Sony is launching
Speaker 1: some wireless headphones that automatically adjust the volume on their own.
Speaker 1: They're called the Experia Ear Duo and they use artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence to make music and notifications sound louder or softer
Speaker 1: depending on your surroundings.
Speaker 2: So what does this.
Speaker 1: Mean, Well, it means you won't have to pull out
Speaker 1: your earbuds when someone tries to talk to you, which
Speaker 1: is really cool. There's some other features built in as well.
Speaker 1: Samsung is letting you turn its flagship Galaxy S nine
Speaker 1: smartphone into a computer. Now, this is something they've done
Speaker 1: before with what's called the dex docking station, but now
Speaker 1: they have a new thing. They call it the des pad,
Speaker 1: And so all you do is you plug your smartphone
Speaker 1: into this little docking station. Then you connect a big
Speaker 1: screen monitor and a keyboard, and you can now use
Speaker 1: your phone kind of as a big computer, so you
Speaker 1: can edit documents, you can type things out on a
Speaker 1: real size keyboard. It's a really cool concept. But now
Speaker 1: the new thing is that you can use your phone
Speaker 1: as a touch screen, so your phone's screen will double
Speaker 1: as a trackpad. Now they say imitation is the sincere's
Speaker 1: form of flattery. While a SEUs has nailed it. They
Speaker 1: are channeling the iPhone ten with a copycat notch at
Speaker 1: the top of their phone called the zen Phone five.
Speaker 1: This one also has some sort of animoji software built in.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not as good as what Apple's doing.
Speaker 1: This device runs Android. It costs half the price of
Speaker 1: a new iPhone, just five hundred dollars. Is kind of
Speaker 1: crazy for them to literally copy almost every aspect of
Speaker 1: the iPhone, even down to the way the camera is
Speaker 1: situated on the back.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Finally, the Innovation award goes to Vivo. They showed off
Speaker 1: their concept APEX full view phone.
Speaker 2: This has a.
Speaker 1: Fingerprint scanner in the screen, which I find really cool,
Speaker 1: and it also has a neat selfie camera. It pops
Speaker 1: out of the top of the phone when you need it,
Speaker 1: then it retracks down in less than a second when
Speaker 1: you're done. And why do we need this Well, obviously
Speaker 1: for reasons like you know, just look school, but also
Speaker 1: it can protect your privacy because we've heard a lot
Speaker 1: about how in the future hackers you're going to try
Speaker 1: to get access to the camera and sensors on our
Speaker 1: phone more and more.
Speaker 2: Well, there you have it.
Speaker 1: Five cool gadgets from Mobile World Congress maybe one of
Speaker 1: these days I'll take the long flight and get over
Speaker 1: there and hang out with my friends there.
Speaker 2: But until then, thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: If you want links to any of these gadgets, go
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