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Ken Hires

Ken Hires

Director of Device Technologies at TechInsights; semiconductor and smartphone technology analyst with 20+ years of industry experience

Jun 22, 2026

speaker_0HOST
12:46
Ken, let me ask, pushing past the theory of it, can we show exactly how transformative this shift would feel to an everyday user?
12:53
So I, I guess one of the promises here is with a AI agent as the, the heart of the smartphone, as, you know, does it, uh... is it the end of apps? And, you know, I don't know whether that's really realistic.
13:10
You know, the vision itself is compelling, but there are barriers.
13:15
So the idea is that instead of opening each separate app for each task, you know, the, uh, a user wants to do an activity, say, uh, booking a, a trip, um, they ask the phone to plan the trip, book the ride, message contacts to coordinate the, the plans, update a schedule, you know, summarize the receipts when you get back.

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speaker_0HOST
22:51
And history provides two instructive reference points for what happens when ambitious companies try to redefine the smartphone.
22:57
Google, I mentioned them earlier, they're, they're great, great smartphone.
23:02
They haven't set the world on fire.
23:03
They're just an example of, you know, perhaps best in breed for, um, Android.

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