TikTok Owner ByteDance is Working on a Phone with Smartisan
For quite some time now, we’ve been hearing reports and rumours about ByteDance — the company behind popular short video sharing app TikTok — wanting tobuild its very own smartphone.
It now seems that ByteDance’s plans are getting more concrete and that the company is teaming up with smartphone maker Smartisan to build the smartphone. The company had earlier been reported to be in talks with Smartisan for the project as well, and now ByteDance has released a statement saying,“Before ByteDance jumped to acquire the Hammer Technology team, the hammer was already planning to create a new phone. This new mobile phone project is more of a continuation of the previous plan to meet the demand of the established Hammer mobile phone user base.”
ByteDance had acquired a portfolio of patents along with a team of workers from Smartisan earlier this year.
ByteDance’smost popular product, TikTok, has received a lot of flak in India for perverse content and was alsobanned temporarily in the country, which resulted in the app beingremoved from the Play Store and the App Store. It waslater unbanned, but the app’s reputation for having illegal, and pornographic content has stuck around.
Either way, a phone built by ByteDance will be looked at with scrutiny and at least some amount of mistrust by users, what will all the drama and scandals associated with TikTok in India.
Akshay Gangwar
Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.
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