In what is reminiscent of the DeepSeek moment of early 2025, when the rest of the world collectively gasped at China's rapid progress on AI LLMs, TikTok owner ByteDance has now partnered with ZTE to launch the Nubia M153 prototype, which is being billed as the world's first truly agentic AI smartphone.

The ZTE Nubia M153 has phenomenal AI capabilities, all powered by ByteDance's Doubao AI agent, which is melded with Android at the OS level

Here are some of the specifications for the ZTE Nubia M153 :

The device is being billed as an engineering prototype only available via online orders.

Priced at 3,499 Yuan or $494 .

Dimensions of 163.12mm x 77.04mm x 8.52 mm.

A 6.78-inch LTPO OLED display with a resolution of 1264 x 2800.

A 50MP main camera, a 50MP telephoto lens, a 50MP wide-a

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