On September 21, 2023, at NIO IN 2023 NIO Innovation and Technology Day, NIO's first mobile phone, NIO Phone, was launched, with a total of 3 versions of the mobile phone. Among them, the 12GB+512GB performance version costs 6499 yuan, the 12GB+1TB flagship version costs 6899 yuan, and the 16GB+1TBEPedition costs 7499 yuan. In addition, the NIO Phone will be available immediately on the NIO App Store and will begin shipping on September 28.
In terms of appearance design, the NIO Phone design is based on NIO's automotive design DNA, and the appearance adopts NIO's iconic skyline elements, with a 3.9mm curved height difference between the upper and lower parts, and a smooth and thin fuselage. Among them, the color scheme of 6 mobile phones is the same as the color of the exterior and interior of the NIO model. NIO Phone is a NIO-style mobile phone, featuring 0 system advertising, 0 commercial pre-installation, pure design, simple and easy to use.
In terms of configuration, the NIO Phone chip adopts Qualcomm's second-generation Snapdragon 8 leading version, with up to 16GB+1T memory and storage combination; Equipped with a 6.81-inch curved screen with 2K resolution, supporting a variable refresh rate of 1-120Hz; the main camera, ultra-wide angle and periscope telephoto are all 50 million pixels; Equipped with a 5200mAh battery, it brings flagship-level ultra-long battery life, supports 66W wired 50W wireless flash charging, and specially matches NIO wireless car charging; Provide ultra-large area of ultrasonic fingerprint, 3D fingerprint recognition, press once can be entered; There are also flagship configurations such as 10W wireless reverse charging and IP68 level waterproofing.
In addition, NIO Phone and NIO can realize panoramic interconnection, supporting 30 driver interconnection functions, including: checking vehicle status, parking location, convenient completion of vehicle unlocking locking, window lifting, trunk opening, remote adjustment of air conditioning, etc. Moreover, even when the mobile phone is not connected to the Internet, it can unlock and open the trunk, flash the light and siren, summon the vehicle, remote parking and other functions.
At the same time, NIO Link was officially announced. Based on hardware, NIO Link realizes a new way of full-link secure and open vehicle-centric mobile Internet through software and hardware integration and end-channel cloud collaboration. Through the multi-dimensional integration of hardware, data, and perception, NIO Link realizes cross-domain computing power scheduling and distributed capability learning with vehicle-end-road-cloud collaboration.
NIO Link can go beyond the simple connection between the vehicle and the mobile phone to provide a full-link device interconnection. By interconnecting mobile phones, wearable devices, power stations, charging stations, road facilities, etc., vehicles can seamlessly interact with their surroundings. Moreover, through the mobile devices of users in the car and the intelligent devices in the cockpit, it can extend a broader application space for scenarios such as entertainment, office, and rest in the car. In addition, NIO Link has also improved the car experience including digital car keys, vehicle parking, and cockpit control.
In addition to mobile phones, NIO also brought the first self-developed chip - lidar main control chip "Yang Jian", the chip's 8-core 64-bit processor, providing powerful computing support, and equipped with 8-channel 9bit ADC, sampling rate up to 1GHz, can efficiently capture the raw data of the lidar sensor, and will also reduce the power consumption of lidar by 50%.
It is worth mentioning that at the NIO IN 2023 NIO Innovation and Technology Day, NIO also officially released the vehicle global operating system Tianshu SkyOS, which is the first intelligent electric vehicle vehicle system developed and released by car companies in the automotive industry, which covers vehicle control, intelligent driving, cockpit, mobile Internet and other fields.
(Photo/text Netcom News Agency Du Jinyi)