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Polestar, the subsidiary of Volvo EV, has made a smartphone. It’s called, unsurprisingly, Polestar Phone, and it’s only available in China. There are many smartphones from car brands (often Lamborghini), but those are licensing agreements that the automaker ignores. As it turns out, however, Polestar is proud of this phone, which makes it a bit more complex than a car brand’s own licensing deal. Just take a look at the new navigation drawer on the polestar. cn site, which has 4 main elements: “Polestar 2”, “Polestar 3”, “Polestar 4” and now “Polestar Phone”.
Why would a niche EV logo make a telephone?Perhaps all these paints in Android Automotive’s operating formula have got Polestar’s engineers excited about the idea of developing Android devices. The website, thanks to the translation of the device, promises that the handset was “co-designed through Polestar’s global design team and the Xingji Meizu team in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is decorated with Swedish gold main dots that symbolize peak performance. ” “Decorated” is probably the most productive way to describe Polestar’s contributions to this phone, as it appears to be. a popular Meizu 21 Pro with the Polestar. Es magnificent logo, with a minimally oblong design and a front that takes up the entire screen, but the same can be said for the Meizu handset on which it is based.
So, what exactly is the connection between Polestar phone and a Polestar car?Well, it runs Android and has all-electric power systems. The telephone has a smaller battery than the electric vehicle, with only 5050 mAh (something like 18 Wh) in comparison. to the 100 kWh battery of an object like a Polestar 4. The car also has the telephone that exceeds the size of the screen, along with the telephone package. A 6. 79-inch, 3192×1368 120Hz pocket-sized OLED demo and gaming giant Polestars. The pill proves it.
However, a spec comparison is rarely a clear win for cars. The sad thing about the state of the car infotainment market is that the computer in this roughly $1,000 (7,388 yuan) phone is significantly faster than the one powering any infotainment formula. on Polestar cellular cars from $50,000 to $75,000. The Polestar phone comes with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. It is a 2023 flagship cellular SoC built on a 4nm process. All Polestar cars in the Google Play Developer Console (which lists all Android devices worldwide) are built around an Intel Atom A3960 SoC. This is a surely old and low-end 14nm x86 desktop processor that was released around 2016. This chip failed 8 years ago when it was released, but is still to be had today. All cars have 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and the Polestar 2 I reviewed had 128GB of storage, which is a clear win for the phone’s spec sheet.
The Polestar Phone and the Polestar Car (specifically the Polestar 4) will communicate with each other. Polestar promises that one day the phone will support Android’s virtual car key feature, but not at launch. The Polestar Phone’s “Polestar UI” promises a “rich app icon design [that] is consistent with the car’s Polestar operating system. “Something called “Polestar Link” supposedly allows you to view multiple pages from the phone’s main screen on the car’s giant tablet screen, and it looks like the apps would possibly be floating between the two devices. It’s hard to know too many main points because 1) many main points have still been published and 2) the main points that exist are all in Chinese.
It’s conceivable that this phone will be sold outside of China. Like cars, it’s found in Google Play’s developer console, and since there’s no Google Play in China, the phone’s registration with Google suggests a plan for overseas sales.
Listing symbol via Polestar
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