Chinese tech giant Bytedance, the maker of the popular social video app TikTok, launched its first phone this week. this phone is also known as Smartisan Jianguo Pro 3, and its claim to fame is a quick shortcut to the beloved app right from the lock screen. ByteDance, the parent company of popular instant video app TikTok has launched its first smartphone, dubbed Smartisan Jianguo Pro 3. After acquiring the smartphone manufacturer Smartisan, this is the company’s first smartphone. TikTok has close to 120 million users in India. The TikTok smartphone comes with top of the end specifications, and includes the high-end Snapdragon 855+ processor and has up to 12GB RAM. The phone lets users access the TikTok app directly by swiping up from the lock screen.

TikTok Smartphone Specifications

Smartisan Jianguo Pro 3 sports gives you a 6.39-inch full HD+ AMOLED display with a resolution of 2340×1080 pixels. It is fueled by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ processor combined with an Adreno 640 GPU. It accompanies up to 12GB of RAM and up to 256GB of capacity. There’s likewise an 8GB RAM and 128GB storage variant. The 128GB version comes with UFS 2.1 storage, while the 256GB version has UFS 3.0 storage, which is faster.

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TikTok Smartphone Price

Smartisan Jianguo Pro 3 is priced at Yuan 2,899 (approximately $ 414.65) for the 8GB RAM/128GB storage variant, Yuan 2,199 (approximately Rs $ 314.52) for the 8GB RAM/256GB storage variant and Yuan 3,599 (approximately $ 514.77) for the 12GB RAM/256GB storage variant. It is currently available in Black, White, and Matsutake color options. The gadget is at first being made accessible just in China. What’s more, as a dispatch offer the organization is offering a markdown of Yuan 200 (around $ 28.61) during its first deal.

Most interestingly you can directly open TikTok’s Chinese version, DouYin, by just swiping up from the lock screen on phone. Given the app’s popularity in the world,  a lot of people in the country wouldn’t mind this kind of integration either. Makers of this phone have tried to integrate social media apps before. In 2010, Microsoft unveiled the Kin, with a home screen acting as an aggregator of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Windows Live. If you remember In 2013, HTC released a phone HTC First called that had a layer of Facebook’s own software on top of Android.