Deutsche Telekom plans to release an app-free phone that relies on an AI assistant to run tasks like ordering a taxi or reserving a table at your favorite retaurant.

Artificial intelligence is the emphasis of Mobile World Congress this year, and T-Mobile’s parent company is making an AI concept from last year’s show a reality in 2025. On Monday, Deutsche Telekom formally announced its AI Phone, which ditches traditional apps and interaction in favor of voice commands powered by Perplexity Assistant.

Deutsche Telekom is building a new Perplexity chatbot-powered “AI Phone,” the companies announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona today. The new device will be revealed later this year and run “Magenta AI,

T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom and AI firm Perplexity are partnering to build an AI Phone that will be launched next year.

Thanks to numerous partners such as Perplexity, Google and Eleven Labs, Deutsche Telekom is now actually launching an AI phone on the market.

Deutsche Telekom (DT) has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with Perplexity, to develop an affordable “AI Phone”. Read More!

It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a top AI company.