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This phone starts fires on purpose

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Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won't start fires. (Occasional Samsung devices excepted, of course.) But this week at Mobile World Congress, we found a company that dared to go in a different direction. Oukitel's WP63 rugged smartphone includes a built-in fire starter, and this is what it looks […]

Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won't start fires. (Occasional

Samsung devices excepted

, of course.) But this week at Mobile World Congress, we found a company that dared to go in a different direction. Oukitel's WP63 rugged smartphone includes a built-in fire starter, and this is what it looks like:

On

this episode of

The Vergecast

,

The Verge

's

Dominic Preston

joins Nilay to explain the existence of this particular mobile device, as well as wrap up all the weird and wonderful gadgets

he and the team saw at MWC.

There was also a "robot phone"

that dances to

(and so far, only to) "Believer" by Imagin …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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