phoneuse

phones for agents

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

day 1

[Abdulla Ababakre @abdullababakre]

defining a new category: phone-use

an mcp/api that gives ai agents their own phones

cloud phones. real androids. real iphones.

tell your agent what to do, and it can operate a phone just like you do.

today, ai agents face three fundamental problems and phoneuse solves them 🧵

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

come build

[Abdulla Ababakre @abdullababakre]

world’s first Phone Use hackathon.

it’s 2012 for AI agents.

just like humans moved from desktops to smartphones, AI agents are moving from browsers and computers to phones.

the mobile era for AI agents has begun.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Infra companies mentioned:

Search & data -
1) General search: @ExaAILabs, @tavilyai, @p0, @firecrawl, @perplexity_ai, @brave, @getcontextdev, @KeenableAI
2) Products: @agentcardhq, @channel3_ai, @shopify, @shopsavvy, Firmly
3) Tools: @MonidHQ, @treg_ai, @tool_router, @composio, Need, @apify
4) People: @orbitai, @ploid_ai, @gigi_network

Account access - @composio, @NangoHQ, @TryArcade, @auth0, @1Password, @WorkOS, @pipedream, @scalekitinc, @descopeinc

Computer & phone use -
1) Browser infra: @browserbase, @usekernel, @browser_use, @nottecore, @browserless
2) Phone use: @phoneuse_, @SolidTheAgent, @droid_run, @tapkit, @phone_harness, Phonebox
3) Computer use: @orgo, @e2b, @trycua, @daytonaio, @SimularAI, @tensorlake
4) Human use: @rentahumanx, @getseaworthy

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

we created the phoneuse category

super proud🫡

[Abdulla Ababakre @abdullababakre]

just merely two weeks ago I have to explain why phones,why not only browser

now being listed on the agent economy map

so much proud that @phoneuse_ created a new category

PhoneUse🫡

[Henry @Henry_J_Brew]

@phoneuse_

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

@MystiqueMide sir

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

🫡

[UnannouncedVC @unnanouncedvc]

Gonna try @phoneuse_ for this instead

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

my ceo is tuff

[Abdulla Ababakre @abdullababakre]

So here is what happens when you get 2.5M views:

> Got around 60 enterprise calls, including the biggest digital bank in Latin America, the biggest mobile app testing company in Vietnam, very well-known AI assistant companies, and others

> Discovered way more use cases than I thought, including scraping, sandbox, testing, AI assistant primitives, app automation, and GTM

> 2,000+ new followers

> Got a reply from someone at OpenAI on the signup email. A lot of cool companies signed up with their work emails too

> 10+ VC DMs, including someone from QIA (he said he invested in a16z, casually introduced me to a very well-known VC in the Valley, and invited me to Qatar)

> Friends send you articles and news covers in Chinese, Korean, Indian, Arabic...

> Attended 27 calls in one day and almost crashed out mentally

> The guy who made the video got poached by an AI lab that is very trendy right now

> Shameless plug: I coined the term phone-use, and yes, I own https://t.co/n1CVr9kBId lol

[David Pawlan @DavidPawlan]

The state of AI assistants & the agentic economy, today: October 26th, 2026

🥇 Top Stories From Last Week 🥇

> @AnthropicAI opened a research preview of Claude Duet, their take on an AI personal assistant

> @Walmart launched Agent Gateway, an MCP connection that lets agents access its store, deviating from Amazon's precedent

> @1Password announced 1Password for Agents, letting agents sign into sites for you without ever needing your password

📬 AI Assistant Competition Updates 📬

> @bot launched Pages for reports, memos and dashboards

> @bot launched phone access to Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and more on iOS and Android

> @bot .77 release most notably added the ability to make Calls (dial, hold, press keys, live transcript)

> @wabi launched 2.0, a group agent that lives in one shared thread

> @TownAI raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation for multiplayer work assistants

> @wajo_ai launched Fo MCP, which lets the assistant control physical devices

> @humansand launched Boba, a social-driven AI agent

> @Muse crossed 10M users in ~40 days

🤖 The Agentic Economy Roundup 🤖

> @Yelp launched Check for Me, an AI phone agent that calls a restaurant for you

> @Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines after pilots with Coinbase, Cloudflare and others

> @gigi_network launched as an agentic networking solution, an agent to help you find warm intros

> @phoneuse_ launched as the first "phone use" product, an MCP/API that gives AI agents their own cloud phones

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[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

@openrijal @rdominguezibar u can see the whole phone screen and can put the 2FA

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

pumped!

[Abdulla Ababakre @abdullababakre]

excited to join!

lots to talk about when it comes to AI agents and phones

10:30 PST

[Ruben @rdominguezibar]

AI agents now get their own phones.

@phoneuse_ runs retail iPhones in a San Francisco rack, each with a real carrier SIM and a physical stylus doing the taps. To the app, it looks like a person holding it.

Your agent plugs in through one MCP server from Claude or Cursor, then books a ride to the airport or reads a flight check-in alert and acts on it.

Most of daily life runs through phone apps, and agents just moved in.

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

i am trending , holy god

[Abdulla Ababakre @abdullababakre]

holy, 1M views + X trending

[Sunny_news @window98se]

AI 에이전트에게 진짜 스마트폰을. PhoneUse 출시: MCP·API로 클라우드 안드로이드나 실제 아이폰을 조작해 API 없는 앱도 사람처럼 쓴다 ('앱이 봇을 감지 못한다'는 회사 주장)
https://t.co/DXjQgjVcTv
https://t.co/HkXokQMIAG

[phoneuse @phoneuse_]

thanks

[Nathaneo Johnson @nathaneo_j]

This could become a category defining product. Most applications have so much restrictions on bot use.

You can't use Instinct, Muse or any AI assistant that is currently out there to complete tasks on mobile-native applications.

Super excited to try this

[율무커피 YulmuCoffee @yulmu_coffee]

brouser-use, computer-use에 이은 phone-use.

에이전트가 쓸 폰의 통신요금도 끊어줘야 할지 모르겠군요. 나중엔 유튜브 프리미엄 구독해달라고 조를듯.

[𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒏 @makotofalcon]

物理的なスマホを遠隔からレンタルして使えるサービス出てきて草
ファーム貸出サービスw

[5분 AI 뉴스레터 @fiv_ai_news]

PhoneUse 창업자가 10월 21일 X에서, AI 에이전트가 쓸 수 있는 클라우드 스마트폰과 실제 아이폰을 빌려주는 서비스 'PhoneUse'를 소개했습니다. 에이전트가 사람처럼 휴대폰 앱을 직접 조작하게 하는 서비스입니다.

무엇이 달라지나: 지금까지 에이전트는 주로 웹 브라우저에서 일했는데, PhoneUse는 가상 안드로이드 폰이나 실제 폰을 에이전트에 연결해 앱 열기, 터치, 입력, 문자 읽기를 맡깁니다. 창업자는 우버·인스타그램 등 많은 모바일 앱에 에이전트용 API가 없거나 제한적이고, 아마존은 쇼핑 에이전트를 막고 있다고 주장했습니다.

어떻게 쓰나: Claude, Codex, Cursor 같은 MCP 도구(AI와 외부 서비스를 잇는 규격)와 API, 명령줄로 연결합니다. 회사 설명으로 클라우드 폰은 약 4초 만에 켜지는 가상 안드로이드이고, 실제 폰은 미국 샌프란시스코 랙에 놓인 일반 판매 아이폰 등을 로봇 펜이 터치합니다. 문자 인증 코드 수신은 실제 폰에서 된다고 합니다.

가격: 회사 사이트 기준 클라우드 폰은 월 20달러부터(전용 안드로이드 1대, 시간 무제한) 또는 분당 0.024달러이고, 실제 아이폰은 월 89달러입니다. 기업용은 별도 문의입니다.

아직 모르는 점: 회사 문서에 따르면 일반 MCP 도구에서 로그인하는 방식(OAuth)은 아직 열리지 않아 API 키로 연결해야 합니다. 각 앱이 이런 자동 조작을 허용하는지, 기기 점검 통과 같은 회사 설명이 실제로 맞는지는 읽은 자료에서 확인되지 않았습니다. 한국에서 쓸 수 있는지도 밝혀지지 않았습니다.

[Mike B @bmikdaam]

So glad someone is finally tackling this

This was the main bottle neck on kitty
https://t.co/QgQDGPV5U3

[David Im @davidim]

phoneuse for social media would be sick

[Daniel Martinez @coderpr0grammer]

this will be huge for consumer personal agents