Chinese Tech Firms Pitch AI Agents as the Future of Smartphones

Chinese smartphone makers including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor are launching AI agent phones at Shanghai's WAIC that autonomously coordinate tasks across services—finding EV chargers, ordering food, booking trips—without requiring step-by-step user commands.

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