{"id":655424,"date":"2025-03-03T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/t-mobile-and-perplexity-announce-new-ai-phone-priced-at-under-1k\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:00:36","slug":"t-mobile-and-perplexity-announce-new-ai-phone-priced-at-under-1k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/t-mobile-and-perplexity-announce-new-ai-phone-priced-at-under-1k\/","title":{"rendered":"#T-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI phone’ priced at under $1K"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 top AI company. And here it is: T-Mobile, the mobile telco owned by Deutsche Telekom (DT), said that it is building an \u201cAI Phone,\u201d a low-cost handset created in close collaboration with Perplexity, along with Picsart and others, plus a new AI assistant app<\/a> it\u2019s calling \u201cMagenta AI.\u201d <\/p>\n

T-Mobile said it will unveil the device in the second half of this year, and it will start selling it in 2026 for a price tag of less than $1,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are becoming an AI company,\u201d Claudia Nemat, a DT board member who oversees tech and innovation at the telecom, said during a press conference Monday. It\u2019s not building foundational large language models, she was quick to add, \u201cbut we do the AI agents.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The news<\/a> is the latest development in a familiar story from the world of telecoms. For years, carriers \u2014 both mobile and fixed \u2014 have pined for ways to compete better with technology<\/a> companies. Specifically, they have focused on the likes of Apple and Google, which have created operating systems and phones that largely cut telecom companies out of the equation when it comes to making money around apps, and \u201cowning\u201d that customer relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Notably, Perplexity is playing a key role in the development of the phone \u2014 a signal of how the startup, best known today for its generative AI search engine, is taking steps to create more \u201cproactive\u201d products.<\/p>\n

Perplexity and Deutsche Telekom have been working together since inking a partnership in April 2024. And DT first talked about an \u201cAI Phone\u201d a full year ago, at last year\u2019s Mobile World Congress event.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerplexity is transitioning from just being an answer machine to an action machine,\u201d Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity\u2019s co-founder and CEO, said on stage at the event. \u201cIt is going to start doing things for you, not just answering questions. It\u2019s going to be able to book flights for you, book reservations for you, send emails for you, send messages, place phone calls for you, and all those sorts of things, like set smart reminders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nemat did not get into many details of the hardware, like device specifications, nor did she give information on who is building it and what operating system it will run on (from the concept renderings, it looks like a flavor of Android). But she did note that the phone will have AI baked in, with the experience built by Perplexity \u201cso that you can experience the full Monty,\u201d she added: \u201cAI on your lock screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other services on the phone will include AI from Google Cloud, ElevenLabs, and Picsart, T-Mobile said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Magenta AI, which will be an app-based version of T-Mobile\u2019s AI assistant, will be available for those who want to install it on their own Android or iOS devices \u2014 as long as you are already one of T-Mobile\u2019s 300 million customers, Nemat said.<\/p>\n

Leaning into the current vogue for all things AI \u2014 which is a pervasive theme at MWC this year \u2014 the AI Phone is DT\u2019s latest attempt to gain some stronger footing.\u00a0For Perplexity, the company is competing with the likes of not just the very-well-capitalised OpenAI and Anthropic when it comes to building new AI tools for consumers, but also big tech companies like Google, which has baked its Gemini AI into its basic search products. <\/p>\n

Here, it seems that Perplexity is leaning into the next phase of how AI can improve user experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the kinds of things that, earlier, you would have to do in your own way, learning how to use these different apps,\u201d Srinivas said. \u201cAll these things are going to start becoming easier so that you can focus your time and energy on problem-solving\u2026. This is really the next phase where AI [is] going to transition from being just reactive and having you input prompts into something that\u2019s just natively there on your phone, always listening to you and being able to [\u2026] proactively assist you.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether T-Mobile, Perplexity, or both will be able to crack the notoriously tricky smartphone market, which is dominated by a small number of companies and has over the years seen even leviathans like LG cash in their chips and back away. It nevertheless points to just how magnetic the AI pull is right now, how even legacy companies see it as a possible panacea, and how even cutting-edge startups are looking for safe moats amid fierce competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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