Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. OpenAI’s first hardware product might be a phone instead of a mysterious Jony Ive gadget . As reported by MacRumors , supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared details about the rumored phone, claiming OpenAI is “fast-tracking” it and aiming to start mass production in early 2027. According to Kuo, the phone will run on a “customized version of the [MediaTek] Dimensity 9600,” which is expected to launch this fall and follow up the Dimensity 9500 currently powering phones like the Vivo X300 Pro and the Oppo Find X9 Pro . The custom chip’s “headline spec” will be its image signal processor (ISP), which will have “enhanced HDR” that Kuo says will improve the phone’s real-world visual sensing capabilities.…