AI Takes Center Stage on Deutsche Telekom’s Perplexity Phone and I Tried It Out
With each technology released, it feels like AI is invading more devices, especially when companies position their AI capabilities frontal and center as the main reasons we should consider buying products. There is no better example than an AI phone (actually a clue in the name), a smartphone designed by Carrier Deutsche Telekom along with OpenAI competitors Puzzled And in Mobile World Congress This week in Barcelona.
I looked at the early version of the AI ​​phone in the DT pink booth of MWC and showed a demo showing how to integrate it into the device. One thing that immediately shocked me was the extent to which DT chose to push AI into the prospects. I hope this will only see more in the coming year, and it is likely that expert AI companies will be with Telephone Manufacturer.
The AI ​​assistant is activated through a pink button on the side of the phone or a dedicated icon on the lock screen, located where the home button once lived. The default input is to make confusing a task or ask questions as a voice command, but you can also switch to typing your preferences.
I saw a de facto demonstration of how AI assistants work: restaurant reservations. Confusion will suggest restaurants for you and then bring your rights to the right restaurants by bringing your rights to you. “You can see the top of the source, which is one of the reasons we really like to be confused,” Deutsche Telecom product manager Benedetta Basile told me.
By baking confusion into an AI phone, we can see the first step of DT toward an AI-centric interface. Last year at MWC, Also at the DT booth, I saw a concept phone Designed by the operator in collaboration with a Silicon Valley company called Brain.ai. The phone uses AI in real time to generate an interface that depends on the task at hand to get rid of using the application completely, but as a concept may be more important than its time.
What’s different about DT’s 2025 AI phone is that it’s still the standard Android phone Download the app from the Google Play Store, but AI has gained the center stage. The idea is to reduce our dependence on no application switching Eliminate it completely.
The Confusion Assistant can also help you with many productivity-centric tasks, from creating calendar entries to writing emails to translating. But confusion is also just part of DT’s broader artificial intelligence product, which is located under the banner of Magenta AI.
This suite of AI tools will be available on AI phones and DT applications – it won’t be as core as the phone’s interface. Starting this summer, Magenta AI will also include tools and features for Google Cloud AI, Elevenlabs and Picsart.
The phone is the latest call in DT’s ongoing branded T-phone series, which will be available to customers in the European market where the network runs in the second half of this year and will announce pricing. This may be a more affordable alternative for many flagship models that are AI-centric but with higher priced prices.
