In the current era, most people cannot imagine life without smartphones, but it seems that their era is coming to an end very quickly. The CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, has predicted that the fame of smartphones will end soon.
He said that the demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based products is continuously increasing. On the release of the results of Alphabet’s quarterly earnings report, he said that AI-based products such as smart glasses are rapidly emerging devices.
Google CEO believes that smartphones will still be the center of attention of consumers for at least 2 to 3 years. But he said that as smart glasses become more popular, the use of smartphones will start to decrease.
Sundar Pichai said that the Gemini 2.5 series, especially the Pro model, is doing a great job, and we haven’t even released them completely yet. This is not the first time that a technology company’s CEO has predicted the future of smartphones.
In early 2025, Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, predicted that the era of smartphones would end very soon. In this interview, Sam Altman hinted that OpenAI is working on an alternative to smartphones.
He said that OpenAI wants to develop ChatGPT hardware (in simple terms, devices) as an alternative to smartphones. OpenAI is not the only company that is talking about the end of the era of smartphones; Apple is also working on the development of glasses based on augmented reality technology.
The company expects that this device will make people forget about iPhones. OpenAI’s strategy is likely to be different from Apple’s, and we will have to wait and see what the ChatGPT AI device will be like.
