TikTok owner ByteDance develop a smartphone

The creator of a massively standard video-sharing app has proclaimed it's branching out into creating smartphones.

TikTok is that the fastest-growing social media app, with concerning five hundred million regular users.

The app, that lets individuals post 15-second videos, is calculable to possess been downloaded over a billion times on app stores.

TikTok developer ByteDance is creating the move when feat patents and staff from device-maker Smartisan.

Besides TikTok, ByteDance owns many standard AI-based video and news apps, like Slack different Lark, video-chat app Flipchat, and news human Toutiao, however, TikTok is far and away it is a most well-liked providing.

The app has done thus well with each Western and Asian audiences that it recently unseated Uber to become the world's largest in private backed start-up, with a valuation of $75bn (£61.4bn).

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According to the Chinese money magazine Caijing, the new phone has been in development for seven months.

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• Meitu's selfie phones target beauty-conscious young people

ByteDance isn't the primary developer to take advantage of a well-liked app. In 2013, Chinese selfie-app-maker Meitu started creating phones tailored to shoppers UN agencies like to require photos of themselves.

Meitu's phones, promoted by standard Chinese social media influencers, feature dual-pixel cameras with quicker auto-focus likewise as AI to pick the best-customized photo-editing filters for every user.

But China has become an awfully competitive marketplace for smartphone-makers and their square measure doubts yet one more device is going to be ready to stand out.

• Facebook Home, which launched in 2013 on Android devices, flopped in less than a year

"It's very tough for any new entrants to interrupt into the smartphone market productively, notably at a time once huge brands like Apple, Samsung and Huawei square measure carpet-bombing shoppers with several pounds price of selling," Ben Wood, technology analyst at CCS Insight, told BBC News.

"There square measure invariably niches that open up within the smartphone market however they have an inclination to be 'firework products', beginning with an enormous bang and quickly disappearing."

Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon have conjointly branched out on the far side their primary businesses however with varied success.

While Facebook is triple-crown in social networks and communication, deed well-liked apps like Whatsapp and Instagram, it did not broaden into mobile with its own humanoid launcher app, Home.

• Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos at the launch of the Fire Phone in June 2014

Similarly, Google's component phones are a winner however its social network, Google+, was finally clean up earlier this year when bit by bit declining use of the service.

And Amazon's tablets and e-readers are fashionable customers however its fireplace Phone saw a frosty reception when it launched in could 2014.

Within 5 months, Amazon rumored it had suffered a $170m writedown (£110m) because of the merchandise. And it set off smartphone engineers before pull the merchandise off the shelves in Sep 2015.