With the AI Phone and Magenta AI, Deutsche Telekom is helping to shape further developments in the smartphone sector. Deutsche TelekomWhat would it be like if a digital concierge on your smartphone could reserve a table, call a cab or summarize texts by voice command or keyboard input in the future, without you having to call up the various apps? Thats Deutsche Telekoms vision for an app-free AI phone a vision that is now taking shape.The German telecommunications group is being supported by the AI start-up Perplexity.ai and its digital assistant. This can be accessed directly via the home screen or the smartphones power button. The AI phone offers additional AI features in the form of applications from:Google Cloud AI (object recognition),Elevenlabs (podcast generator) and Picsart (GenAI design tool). As Head of Technology Claudia Nemat announced at the Deutsche Telekom booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the AI phone will be available in the second half of the year at an affordable price. Technical details about the Android-based smartphone were not disclosed. However, as most of the data is processed in the cloud, the hardware requirements are not that high.Alternatively, Deutsche Telekom offers customers selected AI services via its MeinMagenta (My Magenta) app with Magenta AI. These already include the AI-supported search engine from Perplexity but apparently not the Perplexity Assistant, which is freely available as an app. The aforementioned AI tools Google Cloud AI, ElevenLabs and Picsart are also set to be added in the summer.Deutsche Telekom has also thought about public administration and business customers. At MWC, the company is using more than 30 solutions from ten countries to show how AI can contribute to growth, efficiency and customer satisfaction. One example is an AI chatbot that helps court clerks to search and analyze legal documents saving 70 percent of time, according to Nemat.AI keeps hackers happy Deutsche TelekomWhen it comes to cyber security and AI, Deutsche Telekom was apparently inspired by its competitor O2 and its AI grandma. Similar to Daisy, who drives telephone fraudsters to despair through endless conversations, the second-generation Telekom AI honeypots, based on the open source platform Beelzebub, now react as if the hackers request had been successful and evaluate their actions in parallel. According to Telekom, this also provides data on the attackers tactics and tools.However, AI is not only intended to provide more security in the network, but also to ensure efficient and smooth operation. To this end, Deutsche Telekom says it is working with Google Cloud to develop a RAN Guardian Agent. The multimodal AI assistant, which is based on Gemini 2.0, should be able to analyze network behavior in real time,Recognize anomalies and take self-healing measures if necessary in order to optimize network performance.According to Nemat, the adjustments are so granular that humans would not be able to make them on their own. The WLAN becomes an alarm system Telekom also presented WiFi Sensing in Barcelona. With this technology, which is supported from Wi-Fi 7 onwards, algorithms analyze the Wi-Fi signals between the access point and Wi-Fi-enabled devices and detect when something changes. Thanks to machine learning, the technology can even distinguish whether a child, an adult or a pet is moving through the room. In contrast to the use of cameras, privacy is protected: Wi-Fi sensing also penetrates walls.One possible scenario for Wi-Fi sensing is that movement in an empty home in the event of a break-in, for example triggers an alarm. In a smart home, the router could detect that everyone has left the home and trigger the heating to be turned down accordingly.It is currently not known when corresponding applications will be available for Deutsche Telekom Speedport routers.