As electronics manufacturers like Xiaomi and Huawei are now entering the electric car market, the company Polestar announces that it is entering the smartphone market. Geely’s brand will use Meizu’s technology to try to offer a smartphone with seamless integration with its electric cars, offering top hardware and AI functions in a modern design device.
The Polestar Phone is a Meizu 21 Pro with a different logo
Meizu announced a few months ago that it is withdrawing from the smartphone market, but the technologies that the brand has developed will be used to create other products within Geely. For example, the Meizu 21 Pro model, its last smartphone under this brand, will be rebranded as the Polestar Phone.
It keeps the design with three vertically arranged cameras and a flash positioned below them, the elongated design for the 21:9 screen and the case with straight edges, but puts the logo of the Polestar cars on the back cover.
Inside, the Polestar Phone is a real flagship, with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, up to 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of internal storage, 50W wireless charging and a 5,050 mAh battery. Even the cameras are top-notch, with a 50-megapixel sensor with stabilization on the main camera, a 13-megapixel ultrawide camera and a 10-megapixel zoom.
The phone will integrate with the software system in Polestar cars through the Flyme Auto interface, which allows control of all important functions, such as messages, calls, music playback or even videos on the car’s screen. In addition, the phone can serve as a key via UWB technology and the Polestar Link function, which detects the phone in proximity and allows the doors to be unlocked or the engines to be activated.
The launch of this phone is a defensive move against Huawei and Xiaomi
On the AI front, the Polestar Phone boasts features like image generation, image searches, something similar to Circle to Search, and text summarization. It’s not quite up to par with the features on Samsung phones yet, but it does come with more AI features than we’ve seen on many other phones.
The only real downside to the Polestar Phone is that it’s a China-only device. Huawei and Xiaomi only launch cars in China, so Geely sees no need to launch a Polestar-branded phone in another region, marking this launch as a “defensive” one. It is likely that if the cars of the smartphone manufacturers will also reach Europe, Geely will respond accordingly.
