Phones are reaching (arguably have already reached a year ago) the point laptops reached a few years ago where it is becoming increasingly hard for even the earliest of adopters to justify upgrading more than every couple of years because the hardware differences just aren't very striking anymore.

I'm not sure AI is the best "cure" for this as generally the heavy lifting of what AI is currently present in phones (both from Apple and Google) is offloaded to remote servers anyway.