Microsoft has had a few goes at pulling attention away from Apple, Google, and Samsung with phones and other mobile devices in the past. Unfortunately, whether it’s through the acquisition of Nokia, the creation of Windows Phone, or the release of devices like the Microsoft Surface Duo, it has never quite succeeded. Project Solara isn’t a smartphone operating system, although Microsoft’s platform is based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but an app-less, AI agent-first platform made for both mobile and stationary devices. It’s also, at this stage at least, not aimed at consumers. Microso
Microsoft's new mobile effort ditches Windows for Android, and it's not a phoneTo use agentic Gemini, you need to grant it deep access to your device. Google’s response to privacy concerns is to compartmentalize the agent. Since the AI runs in a virtual window, it’s theoretically isolated from the rest of the device, and the agent only sees what is happening within that specific session. However, the data generated during that session — what you order, where you go, and how much you spend — is still processed by Google’s servers. So if Google wants to, it can build an even more detailed profile of your daily life.
Your Pixel can now use your apps for you, and yes, it's as bizarre as it sounds… OpenAI will need to deliver more than just strong AI capabilities and solve the problems around hardware and AI integration, app support, and user adoption for its AI-first smartphone to actually make a difference.
… Project Solara isn’t a smartphone operating system, although Microsoft’s platform is based on Android Open Source Project AOSP , but an app-less, AI agent-first platform made for both mobile and stationary devices. It’s also, at this stage at least, not aimed at consumers. …
… An AI agent isn’t stopping to notice a sponsored listing. This is where things get complicated. Google is building this future, but makes money from ads. Will developers start designing against AI agents? Will we see AI-proof UIs and aggressive CAPTCHAs to force humans back in the loop? …
… It’ll run Linux and is built to interact with AI agents on the move. Each key will be programmable, and only part of the keyboard can be used if required. There’s no doubt that if it looks like the render, it’ll be as well-received, hardware-wise, as the R1. …
… Agents everywhere The OpenAI phone is unsurprisingly supposed to be agentic-based, moving away from the app-focused approach that we’ve grown accustomed to. To support this model, Kuo says that OpenAI is going for a fully proprietary phone, creating both the hardware and the operating system. …
… Samsung's hardware plan could become an AI Trojan Horse For clues about how Samsung could charge for AI features, check out the New Galaxy AI Subscription Club. At the moment, it's basically a hardware leasing and insurance package wearing an AI trench coat. …
… Since the Google AI Edge Gallery is an official developer tool, it handles the heavy lifting of model quantization and optimization. First, I grabbed the app from the Google Play Store. After it is installed, it acts as a container for various local models. …
… I migrated my entire daily workflow to a local-first stack running on my own hardware. …
… When margins tighten or an executive loses interest, hardware goes first. A premium laptop category requires a multi-year commitment, and consumers are right to ask why they should buy into an ecosystem Google refuses to sustain. …
… A Google Sites B Google Gmail C Google Forms D Google Chat Correct! Gmail was among the first Google Workspace apps to receive deep Gemini integration, offering features like email summarisation and AI-assisted reply drafting. …