Published May 5, 2026, 2:03 PM EDT Chandra Steele has been writing about tech for the entirety of her journalism career . She loves making tough topics easy to understand. Before joining Android Police, Chandra was senior features writer at PCMag where she did everything from interviewing Jeff Goldblum to explaining crypto.  Sign in to your Android Police account Phones are overstuffed with AI that’s a secondary thought, slowing them down and eating up battery life. But ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on creating a phone that’s AI-first, and now, it seems, it’s on the fast track. Tech market analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who was the originator of the phone rumor to begin with, believes the phone will go into mass production starting in early 2027, as reported by MacRumors . Kuo first said that production would not begin until 2028 .…