It's no secret that Wei Lai wants to make mobile phones.

As early as February this year, a Weibo user disclosed that "the Weilai mobile phone sector has been moving frequently recently, and the capital is still increasing. After the year, more than 100 new offers will be added. It is expected that more than 200 R & D posts will be added in Shenzhen, including high, middle and low-level posts. The working place is Qianhai excellence building."

Subsequently, he continued to add, "in addition to mobile phone BSP, the relevant R & D teams also have VR related posts, and are recruiting people."

Soon, another Weibo netizen responded, and the overall outline of the rumor became more perfect.

"The source disclosed that at present, Weilai's mobile phone business is determined to be done. At present, the project is in the initial research stage."

"Basically excluding the possibility of OEM, it is likely that the mobile phone will have a lot of interactive functions with Weilai automobile, such as mobile phone & car machine file transfer, AR, VR resource projection, and NOMI voice assistant mobile version."

Combined with all kinds of information, it seems that there is evidence in many dimensions pointing to the mobile phone business of this new force. However, at that time, Weilai officials did not make too many positive responses.

At the beginning of this month, it was very interesting that Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of Weilai, said when attending a user exchange conference, "Weilai's work of making mobile phones is advancing. We can't compete with the companies that sell 100 million mobile phones now. It's not difficult to make mobile phones now, and it's still challenging to make good mobile phones. Next, Weilai needs to do a very simple job, that is, to make a good mobile phone for Weilai users, and develop a mobile phone every year, just like apple."

This remark immediately triggered a heated discussion in the whole industry. Coincidentally, just recently, according to the information released by the enterprise, Weilai Mobile Technology Co., Ltd. was officially established on August 4.

The legal person of the company is Qin Lihong, and the major shareholder is NiO nextev limited, with a registered capital of US $100 million. Its business scope covers sales of mobile terminal equipment, development of artificial intelligence application software, sales of artificial intelligence hardware, sales of communication equipment, sales of wearable intelligent equipment, sales of intelligent vehicle mounted equipment, etc.

In terms of specific split, it is not surprising that "sales of mobile terminal equipment and communication equipment" correspond to mobile phones, "sales of intelligent vehicle mounted equipment" means the interconnection of vehicles and machines, "development of artificial intelligence application software and sales of artificial intelligence hardware" or imply that Weilai may create different accessories and peripheral products around mobile phones, and finally form a complete ecosystem.

So far, it is certain that the subtext of this new force's car building seems to say: "I am serious about building mobile phones."