Every year, the smartphone becomes more woven into our daily lives and every year the features make the smartphone become a necessity into our daily lives. For the makers of the phone and the providers of the service, this makes the continuous monthly payments of consumers a joyous sound. Soon people will think of necessity services as housing, food and cellphone service. This makes the companies that receive the continuous monthly payments as worthy of your investment dollars. In the smartphone world, the leaders are Apple and iPhone and Samsung Electronics which produces the Galaxy phones powered by Android which is owned by Google.

In an article by Michael Liedtke of the Associated Press, the new smartphones which have been available for sale since January 31 include AI features. Naturally the better technology comes with an increase of price, in the case of Samsung S24 Ultra a price increase of 8% to $1,300. The Apple iPhone Pro Max also increased prices.

Among the features is live translation during phone calls in 13 languages and 17 dialects. The S24 will introduce Google’s Circle to Search feature. You can use your finger to circle snippets of text, parts of photos or videos to get instant search results about what has been highlighted.

Another feature is to point the camera at an object and have a summary about what is captured by the lens.

The increasing use in smartphones comes after OpenAI thrust the technology into the mainstream with its ChatGPT bot.

Linking to dividend paying stock, it is easy to say that a profitable company has to embrace new technologies, but some are a given and others are a nice thing to have. As the year passes since ChatGPT was open to more of the population, consumers have raised expectations the AI will be used to make better products and services. Does it?

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions.