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Mobile World Congress: How should your foldable phone fold?
The latest news from Mobile World Congress including Huawei's new foldable phone, Nokia's five-camera phone, and Sony's very tall phone.
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dan Seifert, Paul Miller, Natt Garun, and Chaim Gartenberg discuss which foldable phone so far has the best design, what phone can actually get 5G, and Microsoft's updated headset the HoloLens 2.
Stories discussed this episode:
- Huawei has the best first draft for a foldable phone
- This 18,000mAh battery has a phone in it
- Sony’s Xperia 1 literally stands out from the crowd with a super tall screen
- LG enters the 5G game with the V50 ThinQ
- LG’s palm-reading G8 has a unique vision of the future
- LG’s answer to the foldable mania is a second screen
- The Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras and a lot to prove
- Motorola confirms its foldable phone is coming, and it could look like a RAZR
- HoloLens 2: inside Microsoft's new headset
- A closer look at Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor
- USB 3.2 standard gets new, even more confusing names ahead of its mainstream debut
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