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 plans to release an app-free phone that relies on an AI assistant to run tasks like ordering a taxi or reserving a table at your favorite retaurant.

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.

Deutsche Telekom says that its upcoming AI phone will be able to answer questions, book taxis, reserve tables, translate in real time, pen emails, make phone calls, play music, summarize text messages,

Deutsche Telekom is building a new Perplexity chatbot-powered “AI Phone,” the companies announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona today. The new device will be revealed later this year and run “Magenta AI,