February 28, 2019

93: Cab Drivers Were Asking About It

1 hour 10 minutes

Mobile World Congress brings folding phones, battery phones, camera phones, 5G machinations, and a new business-oriented HoloLens. Plus there's a robot on the streets of Memphis, and maybe Netflix is bringing the world closer together?

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Guest Starring:

Andy Ihnatko and Philip Michaels

Links and Show Notes: Huawei Launches the Mate X: Folding in a New Direction Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold - The Verge Huawei Mate X hands-on: our foldable future - The Verge TCL's foldable phone concept bends in half like a stack of cash LG V50 ThinQ: entering the 5G game at MWC 2019 - The Verge The Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras and a lot to prove - The Verge This 18,000mAh Energizer battery has a phone in it - The Verge Oppo’s 10x optical zoom system really works - The Verge FedEx unveils autonomous delivery robot - The Verge Microsoft's HoloLens 2: Why it's really all about the cloud | ZDNet Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3500 mixed reality headset for the factory - The Verge Mobile World Congress 2019: Doctor uses 5G to direct surgery live onstage - CNN Mobile World Congress Overshadowed by Huawei 5G Spying Standoff New FTC task force will take on tech monopolies - The Verge Opinion | Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal to Planet Earth - The New York Times Estonian workers rescued a dog from freezing waters — and then discovered it was a wolf - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth – The blog of Andy Ihnatko, intermittently-beloved technology journalist. Tom's Guide: Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) | Twitter Philip Michaels (@PhilipMichaels) | Twitter