Smartphones are nice. They’re additionally… so much. The thought of a extra balanced gadget, one that offers you the entire most essential and helpful options of a smartphone however retains you out of the infinite-doomscrolling loops, has been an attractive one for a very long time. Nailing that stability, although, seems to be nearly not possible.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we try to get it proper. The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins the present to speak in regards to the new Gentle Telephone III, after which we run by a listing of some dozen issues your telephone can do and we surprise in case your excellent, sane, useful telephone ought to be capable of do them. Some issues are straightforward, some are surprisingly tough. We’re nonetheless undecided what to do with Snapchat.
Lastly, we reply a query from the Vergecast Hotline (name 866-VERGE11, or e mail vergecast@theverge.com!) about whether or not anybody is engaged on an in-home digital camera that may inform you the place you left the scissors. It’s a tough drawback to unravel, however there are loads of people engaged on it. (Perhaps not particularly for scissors, although.)
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