Mobile phone manufacturers are fighting for scheduling control in the AI era.

"Set an 8 o'clock alarm on Tuesdays and Fridays, 8:30 on other days, and half an hour earlier if it rains." On the surface, this sentence is merely about setting an alarm, but to actually execute it, a phone needs to understand dates, times, weather, and user rules, then call on different system capabilities. In the past, this kind of operation required users to break it down themselves and complete each step one by one. Now, phone manufacturers are beginning to try letting AI understand requirements directly and execute them. Entering mid-September, the pace of this competition has suddenly accelerated. Honor, vivo, and OPPO are playing their cards intensively, updating their respective operating systems and system-level AI agents. Previously, Huawei had already made the connection between Xiaoyi and system capabilities, HarmonyOS agents, and third-party services an important direction in the HarmonyOS system. ByteDance and ZTE nubia's jointly developed "Doubao Phone 2nd Generation" will also go on sale on September 16. What phone manufacturers are fighting for is visibility, and even more so, positioning in the AI era. When users no longer need to open an app to complete a transaction, whoever controls scheduling holds the new traffic gateway.