Final 12 months EV maker Nio launched its personal smartphone and this appears to have began a frenzy amongst its opponents. At the moment, proper on schedule, Polestar has introduced its very personal first smartphone, the inventively named Polestar Cellphone, following a couple of weeks of leaks, rumors, and teasers – yesterday we even noticed a pre-announcement unboxing video.
The Polestar Cellphone is made by Meizu and primarily based on the Chinese language firm’s 21 Professional machine, which was unveiled again in February. That is no coincidence since each Polestar and Meizu are owned by Chinese language auto large Geely.
The Polestar Cellphone comes with pure “Scandinavian design aesthetics of utmost simplicity and luxurious”, and even the emblem on the again is “superb, restrained, and never apparent”, a machine translation from Chinese language tells us. Should you’re questioning why we’re translating particulars in regards to the handset from Chinese language, it is as a result of the Polestar Cellphone has solely been launched for that market.
The machine has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC on the helm, a 6.79-inch 1368×3192 120 Hz LTPO OLED display made by BOE and able to 1,850-nit peak brightness, an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint reader, 16GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, a triple rear digicam system (50 MP essential with OIS, 13 MP ultrawide, 10 MP 3x telephoto with OIS), a 32 MP selfie digicam, and a 5,050 mAh battery with help for 80W wired charging, 50W wi-fi charging, and 10W reverse wi-fi charging.
Polestar Cellphone official photographs
The telephone is IP68 rated for mud and water resistance. It measures 164.98 x 74.42 x 7.98 mm and weighs 214g. It is solely being supplied in a single shade referred to as Polestar White. The specs are equivalent to these of the Meizu 21 Professional, by the way in which. The one strategy to order a Polestar Cellphone appears to be by the Polestar app.
In fact the principle promoting level for this machine is its tight integration with the Polestar automobiles – at the moment that solely works with the Polestar 4. The Polestar Cellphone additionally has UWB {hardware} however no help for it but, this may come later by an replace enabling digital automobile key. The identical is true for an AI gallery generative picture creation function, an AI-assisted enter perform, in addition to Polestar Hyperlink for seamless interconnection with different automobiles except for the Polestar 4.
Supply (in Chinese language)
