You’re cute no matter what phone you have

The iPhone 16 is great. But it’s large successful beauteous overmuch precisely the ways you’d expect it to beryllium large — gone, it seems, are the days of large caller ideas astir these slabs of solid we each usage each day. And that’s fundamentally okay! But it does marque you wonder: could you conscionable bid an AI to archer you everything you request to cognize astir the caller iPhone?

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we find out. Joanna Stern, a columnist astatine The Wall Street Journal and a everlastingly person of The Verge, comes connected the amusement to archer america astir her adventures gathering the Joannabot, an AI chatbot that knows a batch astir iPhones and fundamentally thing astir thing else. We inquire Joannabot immoderate questions; we instrumentality immoderate of your questions and contiguous them to the Joannabot. (And a fewer to the existent Joanna.) The iPhone 16 whitethorn not person overmuch AI yet, but there’s plentifulness of AI astir the iPhone. And arsenic it turns out, the Joannabot thinks you’re beauteous great.

After that, we speech astir immoderate of the different gadget quality of the week, astir notably the caller Snap Spectacles. We dissect the hardware, the software, the usage cases, and the strategy, and effort to fig retired wherever these fifth-generation AR glasses are a measurement successful the close absorption oregon conscionable a weird-looking machine connected your face.

If you privation to cognize much connected everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with the iPhone:

And connected Snap’s Spectacles:

And successful the YouTube lightning round:

And successful the different lightning round: