Raven opens $199 pre-orders for a phone rebuilt around agents
The YC Fall 2026 startup charges a refundable $199 deposit toward a planned $99-$199 monthly plan, with no shipping date announced.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
Primary source: x.com
Why it matters
Raven tests whether consumers will pay a carrier-sized monthly bill for agents that do work across apps, at a moment when StepFun, Samsung and Apple are pushing the same delegation idea with far more distribution.
Isa Usmanov (@isausmanov), founder of Raven, opened pre-orders on November 4th for a physical phone built around AI agents that carry out tasks and report back with results. In a thread on X, Usmanov said winning an OpenAI hackathon got him into Y Combinator and that more than 1,000 people have reached out since.…
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