As weird because it appears, the apply of carmakers promoting telephones isn’t fully unparalleled nowadays – a minimum of, in China. The Center Kingdom has seen quite a few car-branded gadgets launched up to now few years, together with from Nio and even Polestar.
Now, there’s a brand new firm showing to affix the fray, and that’s Lynk & Co. The agency’s China common supervisor Lin Jie, who’s additionally the vp of the Geely Auto group, posted a photograph on Weibo purportedly from a Lynk & Co Telephone Professional, displaying off its digicam’s low-light prowess.
The specs accompanying the photograph present a 24 mm foremost digicam with an f/1.9 aperture. As Automobile Information China factors out, that’s an identical digicam that’s discovered on the Meizu 21 Professional flagship-level smartphone. That’s not stunning, provided that the Polestar Telephone can also be based mostly on that system.
What hyperlinks these three? The makers’ house owners – Lynk & Co and Polestar are after all owned by Geely, whereas Meizu was purchased over by Geely founder and chairman Li Shufu in 2022. The Chinese language conglomerate has been busy placing the acquisition to good use, working with Meizu on a brand new infotainment working system known as Flyme Auto – a software program that can seem on the Proton eMas 7 (stylised as e.MAS 7) when it arrives right here on the finish of the 12 months.
No particulars have been revealed simply but, however we are able to count on the specs to be much like the 21 Professional. These embrace the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, a 6.79-inch full HD+ AMOLED show, a triple-camera setup consisting of a 50 MP foremost digicam, a 13 MP ultra-wide and a ten MP telephoto shooter, a 5,050 mAh battery, 50-watt wi-fi charging and IP68 water and dirt resistance. The telephone additionally integrates AI giant language fashions, enabling options resembling generative AI within the voice management system.
As for why these carmakers are promoting their very own telephones, it’s easy – deeper integration with their vehicles’ infotainment programs. Within the case of the Polestar Telephone, the system can be utilized to unlock and begin the automobile by way of ultra-wideband expertise, seamless integration with the automotive’s voice management system, and the flexibility to reflect the telephone’s software on the automotive’s display. The telephone’s interface additionally options related icons as what you’ll discover in a Polestar automotive. Count on related performance on the Lynk & Co Telephone Professional.
Nonetheless, these options are already supported on common Meizu telephones on autos with Flyme Auto, so maybe that is simply one other signal of carmakers attempting to money in on China’s bustling smartphone market. In any case, Meizu’s integration with Flyme Auto is an efficient signal for house owners of the Meizu 21 (the Professional model will not be accessible right here, sadly), who could possibly look ahead to their telephones working with the eMas 7.
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