Phones Are Finally Fun Again!




This week, Marques, Andrew, and David first dig into all of the weird products that are coming out of Mobile World Congress 2025!

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  1. 2015 'Olympus' released the AIR A01 – a m43 sensor you strapped onto a mobile device, no fancy data pins so bluetooth/wifi via app but as it had no lenss it did allow you to use any of the m43 lenses, zooms to primes. …weird seeing things coming back as 'new'.

  2. Please do a special podcast for the main channel 20M subscribers coming soon!!! You guys could think of great stuff to talk about im sure. Plus, more MKBHD trivia! Trivyyuhh dude

  3. One of my favorite cameras was the Olympus air. It was a micro 4/3 camera, but it had no viewfinder or anything. The idea was, you would clip it onto a case with your phone, and your phone was a view finder. I absolutely love the versatility of it, and I’m sad that that it never took off.

  4. OK, first they say Realme is a sub brand of Xiaomi, and them the guy talks about Nubia like its some hidden secret brand, lol, are you guys really a tech podcast?

  5. 19:10 I'd rather have solar on the deck of the laptop with many small diode'd cells(so partial shading doesnt make the entire solar array drop to the output of the shaded area).

    You're going to get a small amount of power from the lid from bounce light when open, but you basically need to close this laptop to get reasonable ammount of power
    Now it is impressive that you can get 1 hour of battery life with 20 minutes of exposure, but if i'm going to be in a situation where i cant charge from the grid, i'll just bring solar panels and my 1300Wh battery pack+inverter+solar MPPT

    This laptop is for the rare case where you have to fly somewhere on a non-private plane, so you cant take your 800Wh+ battery bank with MPPT solar inverter and solar panels. But then cant have something shipped to where you'll be off grid ahead of time.
    Heck half the time if i'm buying something i'm going to use something on vacation, i'll just ship it to where i'm vacationing after reaching out to see if thats allowed so i only have to worry about bringing it back, even though 99% of my travel is in my own or extended family vehicles

  6. My problem with the new removable camera
    Its been done before, with larger sensors, and interchangable lenses
    This seems to be a non removable lens version of the Sony one from like 2014 where you could use any and every sony lens.

    What i want is Android, on an actual camera, it started out as a camera OS, and it needs to come back.
    I'm not saying we need an android phone with a lens with no buttons or controls, i'm saying we need to add android with all of the existing wonderful buttons wheels, dials, and quick action menus.
    The various syncing apps to copy them to your phone are absolutely horrible, just put android on it, have an optional SIM card for a tablet plan, but most people would be happy with a hotspot from their phone.
    But i want to be able to fold out my flippy screen Z-Flip style for a full phone OS and apps.
    Imagine each photo you take getting synced to your home backup and our cloud service of choice.

    I dont want 7 different $500+ camera+lens modules for my phone
    I'd rather plug a little adapter in to the Mi hot shoe on my sony camera, that then both mounts the phone, and plugs into the USB-C port of the phone.

    Edit, Sony was on the right track with their Sony Xperia Pro, this was a phone with HDMI input that was meant to ingest HDMI from the camera. Now they need to upgrade to USB-C so the phone can integrate with the camera.

  7. I wish the sensor and lens were separate so it would become an interchangeable lens camera. If it had the L mount then it would actually be revolutionary.

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