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Tesla Will NOT Release A Smartphone
5 min readDec 23, 2021
For the past couple months, there have been headlines, videos, and a whole mix of media content flooding Tesla Twitter and YouTube about a rumored Tesla smartphone called the Pi Phone. We wrote this article to share why I believe this is a bogus rumor. The three main reasons to cover are:
- The future of smartphones
- Claims made in these rumor videos
- Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink
The Future of Smartphones
In September 2020, similar rumors surfaced saying that Tesla was working on developing a smartwatch. This idea started because of a leaked document.
One month after this video was released, Elon Musk responded to the rumor on Twitter saying this:
