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At Mobile World Congress 2026, Tecno introduced the world to its Atom concept phone, complete with a bevy of magnetic accessories, including a telephoto lens, a large zoom lens, multiple battery packs and more. Tecno paints a picture of the future where you can customize your phone in a snap. 0:00 Introduction to the Tecno…

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At Mobile World Congress 2026, Tecno introduced the world to its Atom concept phone, complete with a bevy of magnetic accessories, including a telephoto lens, a large zoom lens, multiple battery packs and more. Tecno paints a picture of the future where you can customize your phone in a snap.

0:00 Introduction to the Tecno Atom
0:23 Enhancing Battery Life with Magnetic Packs
0:34 Elevating Photography with External Lenses
1:17 Expanding Potential with Speakers and Wallets
1:28 The Ingenuity Behind the Atom’s Design
1:48 Tecno’s Commitment to the Atom Concept
2:18 Modularity: The Future of Smartphones
2:41 More Coverage from Mobile World Congress

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  1. @DDCC35

    March 3, 2026 at 6:31 pm

    Unfortunately no real world mainstream use case… That’s why many other devices with the same approach failed in the past

    • @himynameisryan

      March 3, 2026 at 7:29 pm

      Battery packs are a good use case for these but that’s about it
      Because on pixels and iPhones I see SOOOOOOOO many battery packs magnetically attached to the back these days, even with phones that last 12-14hours screen on time people are still going flat idk how that’s even possible

  2. @Dekka915

    March 3, 2026 at 6:33 pm

    This has been tried by Motorola, it failed. Best of luck

  3. @KTPurdy

    March 3, 2026 at 6:36 pm

    Moto andLG tried this. Forgot already?

    • @Supraboyes

      March 3, 2026 at 6:56 pm

      i was just about to say the same, i have a few moto zs with camera batteries and gamepad.

    • @K-LeeDaBos

      March 3, 2026 at 7:38 pm

      People forget when they have too much money

  4. @neofx22

    March 3, 2026 at 6:37 pm

    Did they have not have this in micro four thirds format a few years ago

  5. @MrRideslowrx

    March 3, 2026 at 6:43 pm

    It’s the phone of the FUTURE! yup, that things going nowhere. Interesting idea though!

    • @Supraboyes

      March 3, 2026 at 6:58 pm

      motorola already tried 10 years ago, moto z mods

  6. @BrianHartman

    March 3, 2026 at 6:47 pm

    First of all, -10 points for using “thin” as a dimension.

    But as to the phone itself, that looks kind of absurd. At 0:33, he has those batteries stacked up so that they would “last all day, and maybe all night”. My Pixel 9 Pro does that, and it’s about a fifth of the thickness (and yes, the word is thickness) of that phone plus those batteries. And the telephoto lens is clever engineering, I guess, but why would you carry that around with you? If you’re that serious about telephoto images, wouldn’t you already have a dedicated camera?

    Phones have been trying to go modular like this for years, back to the LG (I want to say G5?) . Consumers don’t buy ideas like this, because they rely too heavily on the company producing the modules. Consumers get all kinds of promises of the fun things that can be added to the phone, but they never happen, or the company goes out of business and you can’t buy or repair the modules.

  7. @juanpazmino8645

    March 3, 2026 at 6:51 pm

    Motorola already did it with the Moto Z from 2016.

    • @Supraboyes

      March 3, 2026 at 6:57 pm

      yep exactly

  8. @Jitenderkhalsa

    March 3, 2026 at 7:04 pm

    Motorola did this with Moto z droid and gave us snap on Mods like projectors , speakers etc and also LG did this way back in 2016 with LG G5 giving us snap on camera etc

  9. @PedroLopes-zyx

    March 3, 2026 at 7:13 pm

    Everything is great, except no ports

    • @James-In

      March 3, 2026 at 7:15 pm

      It’s got pogo pins on the back. Does that count.

  10. @James-In

    March 3, 2026 at 7:15 pm

    They’ve beaten Apple to a portless phone.

  11. @NANICU

    March 3, 2026 at 7:22 pm

    We’ll sell you 3 additional battery packs so your phone can last the whole day❤

  12. @himynameisryan

    March 3, 2026 at 7:25 pm

    Twin that is just MagSafe with data connections
    Or what LG and moto tried 10 years ago

  13. @Rennie-Tp

    March 3, 2026 at 7:32 pm

    Moto andLG tried this. Forgot already?

    • @xelaander8429

      March 3, 2026 at 7:52 pm

      Be gone bot!!!

  14. @handle-r2d2

    March 3, 2026 at 7:32 pm

    So a modern Moto Z??

  15. @TheDilbertEffect

    March 3, 2026 at 7:38 pm

    This is an exciting future for mobile computing.

  16. @AlejandroDeLaRosa05

    March 3, 2026 at 7:43 pm

    This looks incredible

  17. @mohacherr

    March 3, 2026 at 7:45 pm

    Stupid technology
    Look no type c
    Me need type c and headphone jack

  18. @lovescarguitar

    March 3, 2026 at 7:58 pm

    3 battery packs and “now you have a phone that can last all day” ?

    I have a phone now that can last a day and the next morning😮😮😮

  19. @lovescarguitar

    March 3, 2026 at 7:59 pm

    Proprietary technology, including for charging your device? That never goes over well

  20. @floevs

    March 3, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    I don’t see a phone relying only on that but the idea of more “magsafe” like accessories may just be where the money is at: how about a slide keyboard accessory? or a bigger camera? or even a overall spatial sound recording microphone for when you film a concert or even just nature? that makes much more sense to me

  21. @ocularsurfacewatermelon689

    March 3, 2026 at 8:20 pm

    We don’t need thinner phones. We need more capable phones. Rather than making it thinner, I’d like to run a 120b parameter language model locally on my smartphone all while keeping it thin instead of using a mac mini

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