China Joins Rush to Rethink the Smartphone for the AI Era
THE SO WHAT
Chinese OEMs co-designing phones around on-device AI is a hardware signal—AI-native UX will be baked into silicon, not bolted on as an app. If your product assumes the cloud assistant is the primary interface, start planning for a world where the default AI lives on the handset and at the carrier layer.
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