On October 23, 2026, Honor showcased its Magic9 series AI agent smartphones and full-scenario AI terminal ecosystem at the Consumer Electronics Innovation Conference (CEIC). Honor's chief AI scientist Huang Fei also presented the company's terminal AI technology framework for the next decade.
China has approved four more AI agent smartphones for network access, including three Honor Magic 9 series models and the STEPX Neo, the first LLM-native AI agent smartphone developed by StepFun subsidiary STEPX, following the Nubia NaviX Ultra’s approval in late August.
At the 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba announced that the Honor Magic9 series, launching on September 28, will be among the first official models to feature its AI phone solution Qwen Intelligence, with the Honor Robot Phone also supporting it. The two companies jointly developed a vertical-domain model and solution based on Qwen Intelligence and Honor MagicOS, achieving a comprehensive task accuracy of 91.8%, a GUI operation speed of 3.6 seconds, and an end-to-end service completion rate exceeding 90%.
On September 16, 2026, Doubao Phone was officially launched as the world's first AI agent smartphone, shifting the AI phone competition from hardware specs to agent capabilities. The article analyzes the trend of the AI phone battlefield moving from feature stacking to agent practice, and mentions similar moves by Nubia, Apple and others.
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