TikTok is a wildly popular video creating and
sharing platform popular with teens and tweens and its parent company has just
revealed its first flagship smartphone. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company,
acquired some patents from Chinese manufacturer Smartisan used to develop the
Smartisan Nut Pro 3.
The Nut Pro 3 runs Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line
Snapdragon 855+ chipset and comes in 8GB and 12GB configurations either 128GB
or 256GB of storage. There’s a large 6.39-inch AMOLED display with Full HD+
resolution and a small tear-drop notch. The phone packs a 4,000 mAh battery, a
quad camera (wide + tele + ultra-wide + macro) setup and runs the Android-based
Smartisan OS 7.0. The new Smartisan phone comes in both white and green, each
with their own slightly different camera designs.
The Nut Pro 3 starts at CNY 2899 (US$ 412) for the
base 8GB/128GB model and comes in hardware that many have compared to Apple’s
iPhone 4 – the original glass sandwich. It has a metal frame that wraps around
the flat sides and a glass panel on the back. It even has small circular power
and volume buttons.
ByteDance insists this isn’t a “TikTok phone”. While
it might offer smartphone users a versatile array of cameras and
high-performance chipset that give TikTok users a set of tools to create
videos, it is more than just a “TikTok phone”. Though it might come with the
popular social app pre-installed, the company knows that previous social
media-branded smartphones like the HTC First didn’t sell very well.
The phone is currently on sale at JD.com, Tmall, and
Smartisan's official site in China.
