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There\u2019s one thing you can count on at Mobile World Congress<\/a>: a whole mess of Android smartphones. This year\u2019s conference in Barcelona, Spain, delivered, with new devices from Xiaomi<\/a>, Nothing<\/a>, and others showing off the state of the art in the smartphone world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But there was something else brewing at this year\u2019s MWC: some new ideas about what a \u201cmobile device\u201d might really mean. As generative AI changes the way we interact with technology, devices like the Humane AI Pin<\/a> are starting to chart a path past the slab of glass in your pocket. Some of those slabs of glass are becoming more than just bundles of apps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On this episode of The Vergecast<\/em><\/a>, we talk all about MWC with The Verge<\/em>\u2019s Jon Porter<\/a> and Allison Johnson<\/a>, who were there to see and touch and chat with all the new gadgets. They tell us what\u2019s cool, what\u2019s vaporware, and whether they left Barcelona with any new ideas about the post-smartphone world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n