To me an Apple Watch with cellular would be the perfect "phone" if Apple didn't make it so dependent on also having an iPhone. It is a device that lets you do all the important stuff of a phone but without the temptation to doom scroll endlessly through social media. My only complaints are that you can't run CarPlay off of it and the battery life only lasts a day or so.
With AI, you could get probably get useful information off your watch comparable to browsing the web.
And the watch doesn't have a camera, but once you have a small digital camera that fits in your pocket or purse you will quickly find smartphone cameras are shit anyway. They actually have been for years due to excessive computational photography.