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What are some practical examples of AI technology in mobile phones that improve everyday usage? I've been playing around with my smartphone lately and noticed just how much AI is actually working behind the scenes. It's kind of mind-blowing when you think about it from the way my phone recognizes my face to unlock it, to how it somehow knows what I'm going to type next. I've been particularly fascinated by these smart widgets that pop up with exactly what I need before I even look for it (like showing me my commute time right when I need to leave for work). Plus, all these camera features that make my photos look professional even though I'm definitely not a photographer! I'd love to hear about your experiences with AI features on your phones. What are some cool AI-powered features you use daily? Have you noticed any significant improvements in how your phone works because of AI? Also curious about any features you think could be improved or what you'd like to see in the future. Just trying to understand how AI is actually making our everyday phone use better (or maybe sometimes not so much?). Share your thoughts and experiences! P.S. If anyone works in mobile tech or AI development, would love to hear your insights too!

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3 minutes ago, harryclinston said:

the way my phone recognizes my face to unlock it

thats been around long before ai was a thing, think of face id or whatever its called from apple

 

4 minutes ago, harryclinston said:

I've been particularly fascinated by these smart widgets that pop up with exactly what I need before I even look for it (like showing me my commute time right when I need to leave for work).

thats just google tracking your regukar behaviour, not ai either and its also been a thing long before ai both on android and iphones

 

5 minutes ago, harryclinston said:

all these camera features that make my photos look professional even though I'm definitely not a photographer

the newer phones maybe theres actual ai "enhancement" but its more just an algorithm that makes em look good applying filters and whatnot automatically, again another thing long before ai but maybe ai can improve on it even more

 

theres also just having a good camera which is a thing on decent midrangers (say redmi note 13 pro) and especially higher end flagships so also quite phone dependant

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I have a hard time believing that AI is making every day life better, be it on a phone or elsewhere. I can see it helpful with images, such as making images from scratch or editing photos. But other than that, I don't see things summarizing emails and news as being all that helpful. Even editing photos doesn't appeal to me, but that's just me. Other than that, I see AI as more of an industry game changer. Many jobs could eventually be taken over by AI, which could end up making more profits for the rich, especially in a world where there are fewer people in their working years compared to the aging retired population.

 

What I'd like in future phones are things that I find to be practical and useful, not having those features taken away and then others I have no interest in being shoved down my throat so to speak. I found SD cards, physical SIM cards, 3.5mm jacks and FM radio as useful features. Taking them away as a "feature" and being told to just buy a suitcase full of dongles and Bluetooth adapters is just a pain in the, well, you know where.

 

One thing I am interested in that's been around a while but can be improved is satellite connectivity. My current phone doesn't have it, but when it's mature I may be willing to pay more for a phone with it as well as a subscription.

 

Maybe if AI can make texting easier some how, I would welcome that. Texting on a smartphone is the bane of my existence. But I don't see how AI could help, not in the near future anyhow. Maybe once phones read our minds it'll be useful.

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7 hours ago, harryclinston said:

What are some practical examples of AI technology in mobile phones that improve everyday usage?

Modern phones all use GenANI assist to touchup photos automatically, sometimes to hilarious results like fake moons or extra tooth. Phones without GenANI assists have a "bad camera".
 

The most useful ANI features like Hololens and translation still need the cloud to work.

 

Apple might be the first to deliver useful local assistants with Apple Intelligence.

 

Personally I'm looking forward to AGI grade assistants that run on smartphones, I think it'll deliver on the promise on democratizing knowledge.

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3 hours ago, harryclinston said:

This feature is super useful for me 

Sometimes face recognition works good for me, other times I'm battling to get it to recognize who I am for several minutes until I give up and put in a PIN. I often feel that if it takes so long at times for the face recognition to work, it has to be much faster over all to just type in a PIN. Whether that's safer or not, I have no idea.

 

That and fingerprint readers. Hopefully in my case it's just that I have older stuff and the newer stuff is better, but on the other hand I have a hard time understanding how this is so much better when you can just type in a PIN in lickety-split, as long as it's those big number buttons on a number pad. If it's a full fledged on-screen keyboard, then yes, that takes forever to type in.

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I only used camera image search once, don't really need AI stuff in general. That said I have older phone, plan to get S25 Ultra so we'll see. 

There can be some useful things for sure, depends on what you do and your daily usage. Peraonally I care more about good UI/UX and general performance optimizations and my own customizations to make me do what I want and need asap with least effort. 

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Bilingual spell checking has improved a lot for me since Apple introduced the transformer model powered auto correct. But it's still light years behind the n-language support offered it the desktop Outlook app for ages. This is because I cannot simply highlight text and say "please spell check this in German" or "please spell check this text in English". The model chooses for you, and you can never correct it.

 

Generally, AI is marketing BS. Some stuff is really good like the iPad palm rejection, or the models used in the keyboard to predict which key you were trying to type. They're very impressive and whole device classes (like small phones) would be unusable without them. Other's, like telling my that there's a bird on my photo and offering to do a web search for "bird", are almost offensive in how useless they are.

 

I don't think you can have a blanket answer in "AI in mobile phones" right now because it's just such a mixed bag.

 

 

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I think AI has the value to streamline certain tasks which may otherwise require multiple steps, but at the same time, what exactly is the difference between “AI” and clever UI / software design? 

 

For example, the new S25 phone shows a user circling a video to create a gif. Could this not be an app that is integrated at the system level? What exactly makes it “smart”? 

 

A lot of them just feel like cheap parlour tricks at this point still. 

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On 1/23/2025 at 1:25 AM, Kisai said:

FaceID.

I guess that's the main purpose of the Neural Engine that Apple keeps improving. Outside of that, Siri is still useless and doesn't understand a lick of what you say whenever there's no internet connection. 

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