In recent years, many mobile phone manufacturers have successively launched automobile-related business. At the same time, as an important part of multi-terminal interconnection, many car companies have also revealed their tendency to manufacture mobile phones. Prior to this, NIO also proposed the idea of manufacturing mobile phones, and the product plan has been continuously promoted.
Previous news has shown that NIO mobile phones are expected to be released in the second half of this year. Now, with the time to September 2023, the official arrival time of this new machine has been confirmed again.
According to the latest news, NIO Innovation and Technology Day 2023 will be held on September 21. At this event, NIO's first mobile phone product NIO Phone may be officially unveiled, and urban NOP+ is also expected to be unveiled.
At present, there are no more official spoilers for the time being, but the relevant revelation information mentions more details about this new machine.
It is reported that the much-watched NIO mobile phone has passed the network access certification. This certified device model is N2301, and the applicant and manufacturer are NIO Mobile Technology Co., Ltd.
Recently, the network access information of this new machine has changed again. According to information from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the memory of NIO's mobile phone with model N2301 has changed, and 16GB+512GB and 16GB+1TB versions have been added.
According to the information approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the model will support 2G (GSM), Unicom 3G (WCDMA), CDMA, Mobile + Unicom 4G (TD-LTE / LTE FDD) and 5G and other network standards, and support UWB ultra-wideband technology.
This means that NIO mobile phones are expected to be used as digital keys to NIO cars, or to form a short-range linkage with other smart devices.
The appearance design and specific details of this device have not yet been announced. But the latest revelations show the content.
Recently, the Internet exposed the real machine picture of suspected NIO's first mobile phone.
It is worth mentioning that the mobile phone exposed this time looks the same as the mysterious mobile phone that appeared in a Weibo picture released by NIO vice president Shen Fei on September 1.
Combined with the picture, the back design of NIO's first mobile phone is more business, it has a large rear camera module, built-in three cameras + a ring light, and the overall arrangement layout is similar to the real me GT5. The body under the camera module should be made of plain leather material, which is expected to have a better feel.
In addition, according to AnTuTu's information, the configuration and running score information of NIO's first mobile phone were queried in the background database.
In terms of configuration, the new machine is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 leading mobile platform, built-in 12GB memory and 1TB storage space, equipped with Android 13 system.
In terms of running scores, the total score of the new machine is 1360974 points. Among them, the CPU score is 355091, the GPU score is 434891, the MEM score is 304072, and the UX score is 266920.
AnTuTu said that the participation in the running score test may be an early engineering machine, compared with the average monthly report of AnTuTu, its performance level is similar to the performance of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 model, and there is a significant gap with the common Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 model.
In the recent 2023 second quarter results conference call, NIO founder, chairman and CEO Li Bin revealed that NIO mobile phone will focus on NIO users, car-centric mobile Internet experience, NIO mobile phone does not compete with mobile phone manufacturers, just to better match the in-car ecology. It believes that the existing definition of mobile phones can meet the needs, the underlying software of mobile phones is consistent with the cockpit software, and plans to deliver mobile phone products in late September.