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Here’s What We Know About OpenAI’s Rumored Smartphone

April 27, 2026
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Here's What We Know About OpenAI's Rumored Smartphone



There are many generative AI apps and services out there, but ask most people what “AI” means to them, and they’ll likely say “ChatGPT.” As of this article, the chatbot remains the most-downloaded free app on both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store, beating out competitors like Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI. But it’s one thing to download a free AI program; it’s another entirely to buy a phone built around that AI.

What would a ChatGPT phone look like?

On Monday, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo made headlines by reporting that OpenAI might be working on its own smartphone. As part of this process, Kuo says OpenAI may be collaborating with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare—major players in different elements of smartphone manufacturing. MediaTek and Qualcomm would be responsible for manufacturing OpenAI’s smartphone chip, while Luxshare may help design and develop the smartphone itself.

The report suggests OpenAI may have a different take on the smartphone concept with this product. Unlike iPhones and Androids, which largely run on individual apps, OpenAI’s phone may rely on AI to accomplish similar tasks. Agentic AI is currently all the rage, so it would make sense for OpenAI’s goal to be for its AI to perform tasks and functions on behalf of the user. Instead of a notation app, maybe you’d ask the AI to dictate and store your thoughts away until you need them again; perhaps the “Phone” app would be replaced by an AI that could connect you to whomever you’d like to speak to; even a traditional web browser could look like ChatGPT retrieving the sites and information you’re interested in.

Replacing apps with agentic AI would require an enormous amount of processing. Kuo thinks that OpenAI’s plan is to develop two different types of models: one that runs on-device, perhaps to handle simpler requests, and one that runs in the cloud, maybe to handle more demanding tasks and functions. These models could work together to monitor the user at all times, and understand the user’s context when they issue new requests.

When would OpenAI roll out its own phone?

This is still an early discussion, according to Kuo. OpenAI may not finalize plans with these companies until the end of this year, or by Q1 of 2027. As such, ChatGPT phones may not start mass production until 2028. That’s not to say that OpenAI will wait two years to unveil any products at all. The company has previously stated that it will announce a device in the latter half of this year, perhaps the product ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is developing for OpenAI. Rumors suggest this device could be earbuds that would, of course, work with ChatGPT.

While OpenAI has been open about its plans to develop actual devices in concert with its AI services, this report from Kuo is the first real indication yet that the company is working on an iPhone and Android competitor. That might make sense from OpenAI’s view: Right now, the vast majority of ChatGPT users are running these apps on their smartphones, so why not disrupt that market with a phone designed by ChatGPT’s makers? It also seems like evidence that, despite the push for smart glasses and subtle wearables, OpenAI still considers the smartphone the definitive device for the foreseeable future.


What do you think so far?

The issue as I see it, however, is that the smartphone is definitive because of its current systems and designs. People like their iPhones, and they like their Androids, not just because they can run ChatGPT, but because they can run all of their other daily apps as well. They’re not buying a phone because of ChatGPT: they’re installing ChatGPT on the device they already use. You’re not going to convince someone who relies on iMessage, FaceTime, and Apple Maps to switch to a phone that revolves around ChatGPT, just as you won’t budge a customer who uses Google Messages, Google Meet, or Google Maps—not to mention all the other apps and games that they may use every day.

I don’t think we’re going to be using iPhones and Androids until the end of time: Something is going to disrupt the status quo, and convince people to move on to the next big thing. I just seriously doubt that thing is going to be a “ChatGPT Phone.”

Disclosure: Lifehacker’s parent company, Ziff Davis, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.



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