TREE NEWS reports: Preorders for the Nubia NaviX Ultra, billed as the world’s first AI-agent smartphone and jointly built by ZTE and ByteDance, surpassed 360,000 units as of 9:30 on September 15.com platform data. The device, marketed as the ‘Doubao Phone,’ is the first handset from the two companies’ collaboration.
ZTE-ByteDance ‘Doubao Phone’ Preorders Top 360,000 on JD.com
AI take
The scale of preorder interest suggests consumer appetite for an AI-agent handset is real, at least at the reservation stage, which matters for a hardware category still searching for a defining use case. ZTE gains a flagship narrative while ByteDance extends Doubao from an app into a device-level interface, a shift with implications for how AI assistants reach users. Whether those reservations convert to actual sales, and how the agent functions in daily use, is the open question.
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