- 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.