I'm probably a lot like your girlfriend, and I've been in tech for 40+ years. I'm still very active in tech, but I got over being interested in smartphones after my 3rd one, and I was a very early adopter. My needs were satisfied a long time ago. If I have internet access, and can remote into any of my other dozens of machines, the phone has satisfied most of its purpose for me - allowing me to access all of my computing stuff while away from my main computers. Oh, I also take the occasional call on the phone, but that's very, very rare.

The biggest upgrade for me in the last 19 years is the fold-able phone with a much larger screen area. But honestly, the old HTC Wizard that I started with does 80% of what I need a mobile device to do.

I don't need or want AI following me around, especially not in my mobile device.