Mobile Tech Podcast with tnkgrl Myriam Joire · WorldPodcasts.com / Gorilla Voice Media

Best of MWC 2026, Enovix 100% active silicon lithium-ion battery, Honor Magic V6, Leica Leitzphone powered by Xiaomi, Nothing Phone (4a), Moto Razr Fold, Lenovo/TCL/Tecno concepts, and more with Raj Talluri, Matt Swider, Adam Doud, C Scott Brown, and Nirave Gondhia

March 8, 2026·1 hr 16 min·5 clips

Myriam Joir opens from MWC in Barcelona on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Raj Tuluri joins her first, and the conversation gets straight to batteries instead of hype. Tuluri explains that Enovix was founded about 20 years ago by three people from IBM. The original aim was simple: raise battery energy density, meaning more capacity in the same volume. Myriam keeps pressing on why that matters in the real world. Her point is that products need better batteries now, not at some vague future date. Tuluri frames it around devices that are boxed in by space and weight. The discussion stays practical. Phones come up. So do smart eyewear, defense, industrial, and emerging edge AI applications. The pitch is about shipping useful improvements today. From there the show moves into the wider MWC hardware conversation. Honor gets attention, and Myriam notes that the last Honor phone she used was a Magic 5 Pro from roughly three years earlier. That leads into a direct question about whether Honor software now feels solid enough for daily use. The panel then turns to the Leica-branded phone powered by Xiaomi, aka the Xiaomi 17 Ultra with Leica branding. It is treated as a halo product, the kind of device meant to show what the company can do. Price does not seem to bother them. The point is that premium niche devices can still matter. They can define what a brand is capable of, and they can pull in buyers who would not normally touch the underlying phone maker. That sparks a comparison to older Nokia imaging ambitions. The Zeiss-branded camera phone memory comes up. The idea is that Xiaomi is doing now what others once tried to do with imaging prestige. The show also touches on how brand love changes the equation. Leica has weight on its own, so the collaboration feels like more than a logo exercise if the hardware is strong enough. The episode keeps moving through the MWC device floor and other concepts without staying too long on any single product. The tone stays quick and opinionated, shifting from specs to market position. Myriam and her guests keep comparing products against what they think the category leaders should be doing. They are willing to say when software is good. They are also willing to say when a product feels overpriced or not fully baked. The episode lands more as a live trade-show snapshot than a single-device review. It captures the energy of MWC while still leaving room for concrete opinions. The battery segment gives it technical weight. The rest gives it range. It closes after the battery and device discussions with thanks to Qualcomm for the space. The overall result is a brisk, informed mobile roundup from Barcelona.

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A practical MWC episode that keeps its focus on battery engineering and hardware judgment.

MWC 2026 comes across as a working conversation about batteries, not a buzzword parade. Myriam Joir talks with Enovix CEO Raj Tuluri about a company founded by three people from IBM and built around higher battery energy density for products that need batteries now, not someday.

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MWC battery talk and Leica-phone chatter, all in one Barcelona download.

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