AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

AI will be in the majority of premium smartphones and wearables within a few years - bad news for anyone who doesn't like or trust the overhyped pixie dust. Counterpoint Research forecasts that more than 80 percent of premium smartphones will have agentic AI capabilities by 2027, while a similar proportion of so-called wearable devices are on track to be AI-enabled by 2032. To some degree, this appears to be a push from the vendors, who see AI as a "premium" feature to justify the inflating pric