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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Oct 13, 2026)

Step Terminal Launches First LLM-Native Agent Phone STEPX Neo

KEY FACTS

  • Step Terminal launched the STEPX Neo Pioneer Edition phone on October 13, powered by a Snapdragon 8-series chip.
  • The phone comes in a 16GB+256GB configuration, with a full-stack price starting at 3,999 yuan.
  • Pre-orders opened the same day, with official first sales starting at 10:13 on October 16.
  • The phone runs Step AOS 1.0, an agent-native operating system.
  • Step Amoo has already partnered with nearly a hundred companies, including Alipay and Tencent.

KEY DATA

starting at 3,999 yuanFull-stack price
16GB+256GBMemory configuration
1.2%Daily power consumption of low-power chip
10:13 on October 16First sale time

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Cramming a large model into a phone is nothing new, but Step Terminal has packaged the system, chip scheduling, and ecosystem gateway together into a 3,999-yuan device, effectively trading hardware price for an agent entry point. For users, the agent phone has moved from concept to purchasable stage; for the industry, the real barrier is not benchmark scores, but whether an ecosystem of nearly a hundred companies can support daily use.

Source: IT Home report