Investor Ross Gerber is pitching Elon Musk on a new kind of smartphone: one built around Starlink's satellite network, powered by artificial intelligence, and stripped of the app-based interface that has defined mobile devices for nearly two decades.

Gerber, the chief executive of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management and a longtime commentator on Musk's companies, laid out the concept in a series of posts on the social platform X over the weekend. He described envisioning a Starlink-powered phone with roughly three days of battery life that would abandon traditional app icons entirely in favor of a single, instruction-driven interface. According to Gerber, the device would simply do what it's told, functioning less like a conventional smartphone and more like a direct extension of an AI assistant.

The idea emerged partly as a response to a competing device concept from OpenAI. Gerber criticized reports of a smart speaker under development at the Sam Altman-led company, calling the move an "obvious miss" and arguing that a phone-based approach, rather than a stationary speaker, made more sense as a vehicle for consumer AI. Details of OpenAI's hardware plans have circulated for months amid broader industry speculation about a wave of new AI-native devices, including wearables and other non-traditional form factors, following high-profile hires and partnerships in the space.

In his vision for the Starlink phone, Gerber said the device would........

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