EV Maker Polestar Is Making a Smartphone as a Companion to Its Cars – CNET

Electric-vehicle maker Polestar has a new product, and it isn’t another car. This time, it’s a smartphone. The Swedish automaker said Tuesday that it plans to release a phone in China that’s designed around the “FlyMe Auto” Android-based software from partner and corporate cousin Xingji Meizu Group, a phone-maker.

The smartphone, which offers up to 1TB of storage and a 50-megapixel camera, is designed to act as a companion to Polestar’s in-car infotainment system, including through a digital car key that’ll automatically “wake up” the car when a user is nearby. The company is taking orders now in China, charging roughly $1,019 for the device. 

A Polestar spokesman said the company has “no plans to bring the phone to other markets at this stage.”

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