Episode Details

This weeks Vergecast episode highlights the wildest gadgets from Mobile World Congress, including Oukitels rugged smartphone with a built-in fire starter and Honors robot phone that dances to Imagine Dragons. They also discuss Xiaomis Leica Leitz phone camera, Tecnos modular smartphone, Unihertzs Blackberry-style QWERTY device, and Lenovos laptop with swappable ports and a second screen. Nilay Patel shares his excitement over his ultimate home movie setup using a Kaleidescape eight-terabyte solid-state server. In tech news, Google kills its Android app store fee, Epic and Google ink a special deal for metaverse apps, and Fortnite returns to Google Play worldwide. The lightning round covers FCC pushes for US call centers, a beloved Kobo remote, and oddities like a plastic-eating machine and a racing car phone charger.

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