Overview
- The Nubia M153 engineering sample running the Doubao mobile assistant was released in limited quantity and quickly sold out through official channels, with units resold at a premium, IT Home reported.
- Meizu Technology publicly congratulated Doubao on Weibo and said it hopes to explore deeper cooperation to build better AI-focused phones.
- Entrepreneur Luo Yonghao lauded the effort on Weibo, calling the shift toward AI assistants an unstoppable technological change.
- ZTE’s store listed a single 16GB + 512GB configuration of the device at a price of ¥3499.
- ByteDance said it has no plan to make its own handset and will pursue ecosystem integration, while a supply-chain source cited roughly 30,000 units in the first batch and development of a second-generation Doubao–ZTE model targeting late 2026.