Hotline: Folding phones in cars, EVs in Mexico
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Hotline: Folding phones in cars, EVs in Mexico

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202628 min

Transportation editor Andrew Hawkins is here to answer your questions about the confluence of cars and gadgets. Could a folding phone replace a dashboard display? What to do about the iPhone Pro Max not fitting the Tesla's built-in wireless charger? And we hear from a listener who -- shockingly -- doesn't care about CarPlay. Further reading: The car of the future is an EV golf cart Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed. We...

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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Android Auto. I'm one of the producers of the show, Travis Larchuk, and today we've got a very fun hotline episode for you. The Verge's transportation editor, Andrew Hawkins,

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is going to join us to answer some of your questions that we've been saving up about cars. Before we get to it, you should know that we did tape this before the iPhone Duo was announced.

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The first question we talk about hits on folding phones. We specifically talk about the Z Fold 8. We obviously would have brought up the Duo if we had taped this. After we do not have time machine technology at the Verge yet,

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