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Dreame Launches Modular Smartphones; Toto Enters AI Sector
Chinese manufacturer Dreame announced it is entering the smartphone market and displayed two new phone models at an event in California this week. Separately, toilet company Toto has entered the AI business, with its stock rising 25% over the past two days. The developments highlight diversification in consumer tech sectors.
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Chinese manufacturer Dreame, best known for its robot vacuums, announced it is making smartphones and showed off two phones at its Next event in California this week. The two phones were previously revealed in China in March, though neither has launched in China, the US, or elsewhere.
The Aurora Nex LS1 is a modular smartphone with a magnetic attachment point where the rear camera would normally be.
Dreame revealed five modules for the Aurora Nex LS1: a triple camera with a 1-inch-type sensor and a 115mm equivalent telephoto lens, an action camera, a fan, a satellite communications module, and a Smart Agent Module. The modular phone design of the Aurora Nex LS1 is closest in approach to the version Tecno showed off at MWC this year, which was a concept device.
Dreame implied that the Aurora Nex LS1 is a real product that will go on sale.
Dreame's second offering, the Aurora Lux, is a series of different phone designs unified by a sense of luxury. Dreame's press release from the Chinese launch event claims 29 different versions of the Aurora Lux. Dreame claimed camera capabilities including a 200-megapixel sensor and support for Lofic.
Separately, toilet company Toto entered the AI business. Toto's stock increased by 25% over the past two days.
