“Deutsche Telekom (DT), said that it is building an ‘AI Phone,’ a low-cost handset created in close collaboration with Perplexity, along with Picsart and others, plus a new AI assistant app it’s calling “Magenta AI.”

DT will unveil the device in the second half of this year, and it will start selling it in 2026 for a price tag of less than $1,000. Initially, it will be aimed at the European market, a spokesperson told TechCrunch.

‘We are becoming an AI company,’ Claudia Nemat, a DT board member who oversees tech and innovation at the telecom, said during a press conference Monday. It’s not building foundational large language models, she was quick to add, ‘but we do the AI agents.’ …

Nemat did note that the phone will have AI baked in, with the experience built by Perplexity ‘so that you can experience the full Monty,’ she added: ‘AI on your lock screen.’

Other services on the phone will include AI from Google Cloud, ElevenLabs, and Picsart, DT said.”

From TechCrunch.