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Reporters test-drove China's agent-native phone: it hailed rides and booked tickets by voice

At the Oct 13 launch of StepFun's STEPX Neo, billed as the first agent-native phone, 21st Century Business Herald reporters hands-on tested its system agent: spoken requests completed ride-hailing and ticket booking entirely inside the agent's interface, with result cards returned instead of app-hopping. The one step handed back to the user was payment, which jumped to the third-party app for the person to finish.

How it works

  1. Reporter unlocks phone into the agent interface
  2. Speaks a ride-hailing request
  3. Agent confirms details in the conversation and completes the booking
  4. Same flow tested for ticket booking
  5. Only the payment step opens the third-party app for the user to pay

Why it’s worth knowing

On this phone the agent is not an app but the home screen; the only moment a human touches a traditional app is to pay.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on 21jingji.com. See the original ↗

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