The Chinese EV maker is set to debut in the smartphone market with a flagship-level smartphone. There are already plenty of leaks related to the Nio Phone, and even it has appeared on AnTuTu benchmarks early this month. A famous Weibo user @食威 today revealed the internal chats of the company where CEO William Li is seen addressing internal Employees about the Android smartphone.
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We already know several details about the Nio phone, but today’s information just confirms more details. As per the chat screenshot, the Nio Phone will offer good performance, without any heating issues, and will offer power-saving and long standby times. Furthermore, it will bring the Nio cars design legacy to the smartphones with quite stunning rear design.
The connectivity with the phone car will flawlessly work on 2nd gen car models. However, some features on the 1st gen cars will not be available due to the vehicle’s hardware restrictions. It will run Android carrying some great applications that will be unmatchable. It will come with an inbuilt iPhone backup feature which will be quite productive.
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Nio Phone N2301 Specifications (Expected)
Following MIT certification, the smartphone recently appeared on AnTuTu benchmarks showcasing some hardware specification details. The smartphone appears to bundle a 120Hz display, and an overclocked Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC which runs at 3.36Ghz clock speed. Further, it houses 12GB LPDDR5x RAM, 1TB UFS 4.0 storage, and Android 13.
The MIT listing confirmed the presence of 5G support and UWB (Ultrawide Band) presence. The UWB usage means it can act as a digital key for the Nio cars.
The smartphone managed to score a total of 1360974 scores on the AnTuTu benchmark. In Antutu’s separate CPU, GPU, memory, and UX tests, the Nio phone scored 355,091, 434,891, 304,072, and 266,920 points, respectively.
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