T-Cellular’s father or mother firm debuts ‘app-less’ AI telephone

Synthetic intelligence is the emphasis of Cellular World Congress this 12 months, and T-Cellular’s father or mother firm is making an AI idea from final 12 months’s present a actuality in 2025. On Monday, Deutsche Telekom formally introduced its AI Telephone, which ditches conventional apps and interplay in favor of voice instructions powered by Perplexity Assistant.

Deutsche Telekom says that its upcoming AI telephone will be capable of reply questions, guide taxis, reserve tables, translate in actual time, pen emails, make telephone calls, play music, summarize textual content messages, make calendar entries, store for you, and extra.

Whereas the Perplexity Assistant might be “the principle function of Deutsche Telekom’s new AI Telephone,” it is going to additionally assist Google Cloud AI, ElevenLabs, and Picsart. Right here’s a fast rundown of every, as offered by Deutsche Telekom, in case you aren’t aware of them:

• Google Cloud AI permits object recognition with the smartphone digicam in actual time. Useful, for instance, on the weekly market when placing collectively the substances for a dish, for instruction manuals or for the fast translation of textual content on signposts and menus.
• ElevenLabs can shortly and simply convert varied inputs corresponding to textual content, URLs or paperwork into refined podcasts. 
• Picsart affords personalised photos and transforms selfies into varied inventive kinds very quickly in any respect.

The corporate is referring to this bundle of AI companies as “Magenta AI,” which may also be discovered freed from cost within the MeinMagenta app.

“We design know-how for everybody. And convey the modern energy of AI nearer to individuals: whether or not with our AI telephone in on a regular basis life, with AI functions for firms and the general public sector or when utilized in our networks,” mentioned Claudia Nemat, Board Member for Know-how and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom. “With Deutsche Telekom’s AI options, we’re bettering the shopper expertise and making life simpler.”

Deutsche Telekom says the AI Telephone will launch in 2026 for underneath $1,000.