Tesla is going to launch a mining mobile phone, is it true?

On March 4th, Torque News, a professional automotive media, YouTube released a video detailing Tesla's concept phone "Tesla Neurasmartphone Model π".

At the same time, there are also related reports on the Chinese Internet. The financial blogger "Ji Yongfeng" with 430,000 fans on Weibo "Investment Observation" released relevant news on March 8. The tweet was also reposted by Dan Bin, a fund leader with nearly 14 million fans and chairman of Shenzhen Oriental Harbor Investment Management Co., Ltd.

Source: Dan Bin Weibo

This video introduces the features of the phone in detail, with high-speed photography , can be bound to control cars and flamethrowers (Flamethrower), can be connected to Starlink, has a brain-computer connection function, and also has a MarsCoin mining system. In terms of hardware, Neurasmartphone Model π has solar panel charging, ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, and 4 rear cameras.

From the appearance point of view, the front panel of Neurasmartphone Model π is similar to the iPhone 12 without the "notch", and the front is punched Camera, there are two icons at the bottom of the idle screen, call hold and quick photo. The back cover is light gray, and it is suspected that it can be charged by solar energy.

Neurasmartphone Model π Starlink function, Starlink is a low-earth orbit satellite group launched by SpaceX to provide high-speed Internet access services covering the world.

Through the interpretation of the video, after the Neurasmartphone Model π is connected to the Starlink system, the uplink rate and downlink rate both reached 210M, which translates to a download speed of about 21- 26.25MB/s.

On the car binding function, the video does not disclose whether it is compatible with car brands other than Tesla.

From the point of view of naming, Neurasmartphone Model π and Musk founded the "brain-computer interface" technology in 2016 Company Neuralink is even more relevant. The Torque News video shows that the Neurasmartphone Model π will be connected to the brain-computer interface system to replace some of the functions lost by human brain damage, and may be used for memory storage in the future.

It is also mentioned in the video that Neurasmartphone Model π will be used for MarsCoin mining. MarsCoin is a cryptocurrency that Musk said on Twitter on February 15th that he will definitely launch it in the future.

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Before that, there were rumors about the "Tesla mobile phone" in the media.

The earliest rumors date back to 2018. The breaking news platform SlashLeaks leaked photos of the back panel of the mobile phone and the screen protector containing the Tesla logo. It is reported that the mobile phone is code-named "Quadra". However, there was no further information about the phone.

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On September 14, 2020, Musk responded to rumors about the development of smart watches on Twitter, saying that smart watches and mobile phones are outdated technologies, and brain-computer interface technology It is the technology of the future.

At the beginning of 2021, some foreign media said that Musk intends to develop a new mobile phone system, which will break Google's Android It has a monopoly position with Apple iOS in the field of mobile phone systems.

Just as Quadra died without a problem, Tesla’s concept phone Tesla Neurasmartphone Model π is also an unofficial fake news.

According to the description of the professional automotive media Torque News that disclosed the video, Neurasmartphone Model π is not a real mobile phone, nor Not an official Tesla product. This is the product of Antonio De Rosa, a designer from the Italian ADR studio, designed for Tesla and combining the functions of multiple companies owned by Musk.

Obviously, the media that reported the news did not carefully read the introduction of the video.

Of course, as a technology madman, it is not new for Musk to launch a mobile phone with Starlink connection, mining and brain-computer interface functions in the future.

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