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That hardware costs money, and you only need to look at the cheapiPhone 16eto see that in action.

But it seems that this isnt going to stop Chinese companyTCLfrom working to bring artificial intelligence to its phones.

tcl nxtpaper 60 handset from the back

TCL is known for many things, but selling expensive phones is not one of them.

Easy, you dont.

It means a very high end phone, and theres no single model that will serve all use cases.

TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G cameras

Not everything will need to run through the cloud.

In fact that job is being outsourced toGoogleand Microsoft.

Sun also admitted the reach Google and Microsoft have was a huge advantage.

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Naturally this means TCL is not embracing the idea of the AI phone.

The simple fact is that the necessary hardware is too expensive for the kind of price point TCL targets.

As for a timeframe on when this could actually happen, Sun wasnt so clear.

Visual Intelligence being used to look up automotive info on an iPhone 16e

So dont expect that AI switch to be flipped overnight, this is probably going to take some time.

Meanwhile, follow ourMWC 2025 live blogfor the latest news from the event all this week.

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