Lenovo shows off its bendy smartphone
Lenovo shows off its bendy smartphone at the Mobile World Congress 2024.
  • The AI boom and improved connectivity have created an opening for more experimentation in phones.
  • Innovations are moving from concepts to devices we can buy.
  • It's time to make gadgets weird again.
  • This article is part of "5G and Connectivity Playbook," a series exploring some of our time's most important tech innovations.

Our smartphones have never been so powerful, and so boring.

But there's good news: It doesn't have to be this way, and tech companies are taking some big swings at what the future of the phone could be.