OpenAI announced an AI agent phone in April 2026. Qualcomm and MediaTek are building the silicon. The target is 300-400 million annual shipments.
It ships in ~2028.
Meanwhile, "phone AI agent" and "AI agent phone" are being used interchangeably across search results, tweets, and product pages — and they describe two completely different things, on two completely different timelines.
TL;DR: An AI agent phone is new hardware you'll buy in 2028. A phone AI agent is something that works on the phone you already own, today.
The word-order problem
