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OpenAI reportedly thinks its phone will sell as many units as the Samsung Galaxy series
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this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Talk about being delusional
OpenAI is going for a fully proprietary phone, creating both the hardware and the operating system. According to Kuo, it will use a customized version of MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 processor, which is expected to launch in the third quarter of this year.
- New OS
- New CPU
They must be slopping the OS together, while their marketing AI tells them that this is what everyone wants.
Seems more likely that they are trying to pump up their IPO using this phone.
Just like Musk with the charade of "it's coming" and as long as you keep excitement and act like it's a game changer, the idiot investors will keep throwing money at it, propping it up. They've gotta believe by now it's both unsustainable and a shitty product, but are just milking it dry for the sake of profits.
Their first pivot was trying to get their investors to buy them a chip manufacturing plant. That failed spectacularly. Now they want to sell phones? Just the market testing should kill that.
Clearly investors for tech startups are all illiterate and love burning money, but this AI craze is worse than crypto. At least that was open and blatant fraud with high returns. This is just burning money until the economy keels over.
im seeing an new AI startup of some concept being advertised here in the west coast every few weeks, its worst than like 1-2 years ago, they are definitely getting desperate. all these conferences going on has switched to being 100% AI related here, rather than various techs, i wouldnt be surprised all these tech people going to these conference lose thier jobs due to layoffs in the near future are going to be disappointed they wont get to travel on company's dime anymore. plus all these catering companies to openAI and thier conferences too. i work in the area where this all going on.
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Good luck. People will not be able to control their Sonos, listen to their music, use banking apps or check their social.
Not having ~~enough~~ the right apps killed blackberry, windows mobile, windows phone, symbian and palmOS. But sure, a chatbot will be different.
It would have worked 10+ years ago, when we had open apis and could connect to services without being forced into their walled gardens. But now? Nah.
Edit: typo and clarified apps
no, but you see... all the apps are going to be vibe-coded on the fly every time you want to open one! Want to browse lemmy? "The user wants to browse a website, let's build a browser....." [a few days later] "you reached your token limit, do you want to move to the Pro $1500 per month subscription and continue building your browser?"
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OpenAI is joined at the hip with MS, right?
What's the bet this is MS's attempt at getting back into the corporate mobile space again? Brand it as CoPilot Phone...
I hope fucking no. I have to put up with enough MS shit and an iPhone. A MS phone with a AI slop OS would be too much
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Nokia skipped the extra step and went directly from shoes to phones.
AI is getting so intrusive I'm considering a land line.
I'll go back to physically mailing letters.
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They are not talking to us, but to the shareholders and investors. They are offering a fantazillion phone sales to the people who are giving them money so they can get more money.
It's the exact same pattern we've been seeing with all things AI since its launch. This kind of big talk is aimed to please investors, even if it's a plain lie (which, with AI, has always been the case).
pretty much, a new AI startup or thing is being advertise like every month or every weeks here in cali in order to get people to buy into it.
"Want to cook the perfect steak in 90seconds or less? Imposible, you say! Preposturios, you say! Well with the power of AI it is now a reality!"
Of course you just spent $3500 on a perfecta grill so you'll probably have a tough time buying steak now
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Boy are they in for a rude awakening.
I hope they really go for it. Maybe it'll put them out of business.
Roses are red
AI is slop
My homies can't wait
For this bubble to pop
My one coworker is an AI shill and I love reminding him that this is gonna be the dotcom bubble all over again. He was an adult when the dotcom bubble burst and apparently he had invested a lot into shit back then lmao. I was a kid so I didn't even know what an economy is.
You better have a nice, big "fell for it again"-award ready for him. He'll need it for emotional support.
I will get the most amazing award. On top of being an AI shill, he's also an incel and racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, and transphobic.
I know why his ex wife left him and why his daughters don't communicate with him.
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You are a ✨visionary✨ that sees things nobody else does! It's not going to be a failure, it's going to exceed all expectations! By the year ✨2030✨ everybody will own an OpenAI phone! 🎖️🎖️🎖️✨✨✨🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️
~ ChatGPT, probably
You would have fooled me if you’d have used more emojis.
You 👈🏼 👈 😏 are a ✨visionary✨ that 💫 🍆 👏 sees 👀😲 👀 😲 things 👺🅰️ 😏 👀 nobody 🙄 🙅♀️🙅♀️ 🙅🤐 else 🙅♀️ 🏿😩 😔 does! 👏 😒 😳❓ It’s not 😒 ❌ 🚯 going 🏃🏇 🏃 🏃 to be 🐝🐝 ❌ 😡🐝 a failure, 🚫 ❗🚫 🚫 it’s going 🏃 🏃🏿🖤 🧳 to exceed all 💯 💯 😩 expectations! By ⏩😈 👷😗 😈 the year 😉😏 🎉💥 🤭😭😭😭🤷🏻♀️ ✨2030✨ everybody 👴👵👨 👩👨 😡 will 🐼 🎀 😏 own 😎 💌 💌 an OpenAI phone! 📞 📱 📴
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Phone with only chat interface where all your apps are agents and MCP servers and all your data goes straight to OpenAI servers. You wake up one day and your bank account is $10M short, your house is sold and you own $1M to some gambling company but you agreed to privacy policy and terms of use so good luck.
Remember the Facebook phone? Exactly.
Remember the Rabbit R1?
An official member of the US military industrial complex is making a phone with a proprietary OS that hoovers up your data and shoves AI slop in your face 24/7. What’s not to like?
“No! We swear we can make money! Seee! Phone? Phone make money! We make phone! Please give us more money to throw in to the money shredder.”
What happened to all the profits they would be raking in from AI? Man this is some desparate pivoting...
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Would be real funny if they made a built in Ai with root access for it.. Totally not disastrous.
AI companies have some of the worst projections ever conceived of by human minds. Im not remotely surprised they conned so many investors with them.
I didn't even know they made phones.
But they couldn't pay me enough to use one.
😂
Strong digust triggering ideas presented by openai in here
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