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Why would I want an AI agent to replace my phone? - 9to5Google
You can’t go anywhere on the internet today without running into AI. In some cases, that’s useful. AI can do some amazing things. On the other hand, it often feels like we’re watching someone reinvent the wheel. Now, word on the street is that OpenAI wants to build its own phone with an experience built around AI agents. Put simply, I think that sounds horrible. This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google’s rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox early! OpenAI’s first smartphone is apparently in the pipeline, set to launch sometime around 2028. The device, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says, would replace the traditional smartphone experience with one focused around AI agents that complete tasks for you. Kuo explained: Users are not trying to use a pile of apps. They are trying to get tasks done and fulfill needs through the phone. There’s a bit of truth to that. When we pick up our phones, we’re often trying to get something done, whether that be sending a message, ordering something online, or whatever else. Besides the fact that, equally as often, we’re just looking to have some fun or consume entertainment, I think this misses the point of what we want from our smartphones. The idea that the phone in my pocket exists solely as a tool for me to get tasks done undermines the human aspect completely. This conceptual future where the smartphone is all about AI agents getting things done on your behalf just removes human experience from the picture altogether. Kuo’s concept image shows an “Agent Task Stream” that shows ongoing tasks that the AI agent is handling in the background – booking flights, compiling/summarizing data, drafting replies to emails, setting up plans for a family dinner, and showing the status of a policy renewal. To an extent, I can see myself using an agent on these tasks, though I’d be hard-pressed to use the same AI that just learned how to spell “strawberry” to book a flight on my behalf. But for this to be my phone’s entire experience? Again, that just sounds bad. All of this is to say, I don’t want AI to replace my phone. AI agents absolutely have a place in the future of the smartphone, and a growing one at that. But I only view them as a “part,” not the whole experience. Opening Gemini, or the agent of your choice, to view this “task stream” and check in on tasks you’ve assigned could be rather useful, but ...
OpenAI Said to Be Making Phone With AI Agents to Replace Apps
As OpenAI faces a major legal threat from Elon Musk over its future, the company behind ChatGPT is reportedly pressing ahead with expanded hardware ambitions.The company has previously been linked to a possible release of AI earbuds later this year or early 2027, but now it's said to be working on a smartphone in partnership with component-makers MediaTek, Qualcomm and Luxshare. Industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported on X over the weekend that MediaTek and Qualcomm would help design a smartphone chip for the device, while Luxshare would act as a co-design and manufacturing partner. Most premium Android phones coming out in 2026 will use either Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 or MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 chips, so it makes sense for OpenAI to tap the companies making processors for most of the top-end phones that come out every year. For years, both MediaTek and Qualcomm have envisioned AI agents as the future of how people will use their phones, handling tasks across multiple apps for you. AI agents would be at the core of OpenAI's smartphone, Kuo said, effectively eliminating the need for separate apps. "Users are not trying to use a pile of apps," Kuo said. "They are trying to get tasks done and fulfill needs through the phone. This fundamentally changes how people think about smartphones." OpenAI's hardware ambitions have included a high-profile partnership with former Apple designer Jony Ive. One recent rumor was that the devices could include one worn in the ear, but that OpenAI could have as many as five different devices ready by the end of 2028.At the same time, OpenAI has been reportedly trying to cut down on so-called "side quests," axing its Sora video generator and putting a planned ChatGPT "adult mode" on hiatus in favor of a more productivity-focused "super app" said to be built around the Codex coding tool.Read also: ChatGPT Images 2: Why OpenAI Built a New Image Model After Killing SoraKuo reported that specifications and suppliers for the rumored smartphone are expected to be done by the end of the year or the first quarter of 2027, with production expected in 2028.OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
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