OpenAI smartphone, more
9to5Mac Daily
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- OpenAI is making its own phone to compete with the iPhone: report
- Camera in iOS 27 to feature Siri mode with enhanced Visual Intelligence, per report
- Apple might ditch MagSafe on future iPhones, per bizarre rumor
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, April 30th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by BitWarden. |
| 0:13.1 | Leading off today, Open AI's hardware ambitions have been no secret, but the company has long indicated it's not making a phone. |
| 0:22.6 | A new report now, however, says that's no longer the case, and an iPhone competitor from OpenAI is now in the works. |
| 0:28.5 | If you've been following along with the OpenAI hardware rumors, you'll know that the company is |
| 0:33.1 | working with former Apple design chief Johnny Ive on a suite of AI-infused hardware devices. |
| 0:39.3 | The first product expected to launch is a new HomePod-style smart speaker, infused with |
| 0:45.0 | chat chip-t pt and built-in camera. Smart glasses and a smart lamp are also reportedly in development. |
| 0:52.8 | Analyst Ming Chi-Quo now reports that OpenAI is working with media tech and Qualcomm to develop |
| 0:58.6 | smartphone processors. |
| 1:00.5 | It's also working with Luxshare as the exclusive system co-designer and manufacturing partner. |
| 1:07.3 | Mass production is expected in 2008, and specifications and final suppliers are expected to be locked in by the end of this year, or Q1, 2027. |
| 1:18.8 | Quo also explains his belief that AI agents will shape the OpenAI smartphone, making it work and feel very different from an iPhone. |
| 1:27.7 | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X yesterday, quote, feels like a good time to seriously |
| 1:34.2 | rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed, end quote. |
| 1:40.3 | So while OpenAI clearly believes that at one point it could disrupt the iPhone with other AI hardware products, perhaps now it sees the smartphone as central to AI uses for many years to come and is looking to compete head on with Apple. |
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