China has some big ideas about smartphones
The US smartphone market is pretty boring. There are iPhones, there are Galaxies, Google will happily give you a Pixel if you remember it exists, and thatas about it. But as soon as you get out and see the world a little, you realize: there are a lot of new ideas about smartphones out there.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we explore a few of those ideas. The Vergeas Allison Johnson and Dominic Preston join the show to talk about their trip to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the annual smartphone extravaganza. They saw phones that twist, phones that fold, phones with inexplicably enormous camera lenses attached, phones with lots and lots of AI, and phones with speakers so loud youall be ostracized from polite society. Now theyare back to tell the tale of interesting smartphones, and try to figure out if any of it might change our devices forever.
After that, we pivot to a new take on an old idea about social networks. Digg is back! Sort of. Right now, itas a landing page and a waitlist, but an all-star roster of social veterans is serious about rebooting one of the internetas first huge social hits. Kevin Rose and Justin Mezzell join the show to talk about …