Beyond the Chatbot: Phone Makers Want to Make AI Your ‘Second Brain’
Have you noticed signs of AI creep? When generative AI first Arrival phone numberit takes the form of standalone apps or personal features, such as Google’s tools Circle searchFor example. But the rapid growth of AI and the need to stir up new selling points of new devices every year mean we are seeing AI penetrate into our phones at a deeper and deeper level. Just take a look Apple Smart or Google Gemini.
You might be wondering what this means for your next phone and how you interact with it. For some time, great thinkers in the field of technology outlined the vision of our cell phones, where AI is the central portal for us to interact with devices. The core of this vision is Artificial Intelligence Agentan advanced form of chatbots that can be used in all our applications. this Apply yourself Enter the background with AI (which was once a nice novelty) and become the center stage.
I first saw the idea of how the World Congress in Barcelona last year worked, with German network Deutsche Telekom and Silicon Valley Startup Brain. AI partners paired with a concept device that could produce unique features Telephone interface Real-time depends on how and why the phone is used. It removes basic information from your phone’s apps, so you can use that data without getting involved in or between apps.
Last week MWC 2025I see more evidence that tech companies want AI to be the primary way we interact with mobile phones. Deutsche Telecom is back AI phone Later this year. In the demo Early prototypesI would love to see the phone has dedicated AI icons, the once home button allows you to launch confusion directly from the lock screen, pushing the AI agent into the foreground.
One of the biggest proponents of proxy AI interfaces is chip maker Qualcomm, which ensures all top Android phone Manufacturers have the computational power required to run the AI on the device. this Company Vision Its marketing director Ignacio Contreras told me that it was “AI becoming the new UI.” “It becomes the user interface we can interact with the device.”
I’ve seen evidence that this is possible, but there is still a big hurdle: Are you, I, or anyone else planning to change your phone in the next few years actually want this?
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If a tech company will win the idea that your AI belongs to a phone, then it may be just a British smartphone manufacturer. Ironically, this is one of the few phone companies that actually use AI words anywhere in their marketing. At this year’s MWC, the company launched No 3a and 3a Pro. Both are fun, flashy and affordable, but nothing without software upgrades really caught my attention.
There is nothing to introduce a concept called “necessary space” where you can give up invitations, screenshots, voice characters, or basically anything interesting or important that you want to track. Even better, it can touch dedicated physical buttons, making the experience seamless. It can fulfill the role of a centralized personalized portal in your phone, where you can interact with AI, which can interact with you in a useful way that goes beyond the standard chatbot paradigm by bringing together all of the scattered ideas and plans.
“The way we look at basic space is almost a second brain or diary,” said Akis Evangelidis, one of the founders of the idle. “We want to create a single hub where you can give up all these ideas and inspirations and hope that it will help organize and make sense from it.”
Currently, the feature is in Beta with limited functionality, but the idea is to introduce more AI features and integrations over time, all with clear use cases. “We want to step in with people’s experience rather than make it overwhelming,” Evangelidis said. “The first step is to educate people.”
Here, nothing shows that you can raise and be prepared to deal with key challenges like convince me, and you can interact with our phones via AI. This means it will require us to change our behavior.
To make this change in behavior successful, it is easier and preferable to use AI to access our phones than the current interface, Contreras said. He compared it to the introduction of a clickable mouse or touch screen. Not only that, he added, it needs to be proposed in a way that attracts people and humans. “In terms of adopting (AI interface) adopting (AI interface), the aesthetics of design and how to translate it into a technology, not just a technology,” he said.
Once again, nothing has been around, it has always had strong design principles, which are the core of its philosophy, and here it wins the winner. With its tile-like interface, the required space is one of the most appealing attempts to integrate AI into the phone.
For now, it sits on the sidelines, but I’m curious if it can eventually become the de facto interface of the Nothing Phone, the first thing you see every time you unlock the device. “Ultimately, yes,” Evangelidis said. He added that nothing needed to turn on the phone should be accessed in a specific space, rather than requiring 50 different inputs.
It’s a compelling argument that supports pushing AI to the phone and is a thoughtful approach. As AI continues to grow in impact on our devices, we hope more phone manufacturers have similar ideas in the pipeline.
