{"id":325313,"date":"2026-03-06T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325313\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:35:08","slug":"the-best-and-strangest-phones-of-mobile-world-congress-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325313\/","title":{"rendered":"The best and strangest phones of Mobile World Congress 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won\u2019t start fires. (Occasional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/1\/22\/14353686\/samsung-galaxy-note-7-recall-reason-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung devices excepted<\/a>, of course.) But this week at Mobile World Congress, we found a company that dared to go in a different direction. Oukitel\u2019s WP63 rugged smartphone includes a built-in fire starter, and this is what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">But before all that, we share a rare moment of unfiltered gadget joy. Nilay just had \u201cthe single most incredible experience I\u2019ve ever had watching a movie in my house, in my entire life,\u201d thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaleidescape.com\/mini-terra-prime-movie-server\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleidescape 8TB solid-state server<\/a>. Scenes of rain or confetti have never looked better. This is all it takes to make Nilay happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first on MWC:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">And in the lightning round:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won\u2019t start fires. (Occasional Samsung devices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2090,1462,330,133,85,46,8457,7850,321,69526,9015,965,4555,2404,920,125,52613],"class_list":["post-325313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-antitrust","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-law","tag-lenovo","tag-mobile","tag-mwc-2026","tag-phones","tag-podcasts","tag-policy","tag-robot","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-vergecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}