China Telecom Tianyi AI Glasses
On sale · China ·
China Telecom's first own-brand glasses have no display: a 12 MP camera at 1440p30, 38 g and 7 hours of claimed battery. The operator's Xingchen model on a Qualcomm AR1.
Specifications
| Field | Value | How we know |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | OFFICIALChina Telecom | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Category | OFFICIALWith camera | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Form factor | OFFICIALGlasses frame | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Status | OFFICIALOn sale | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Maker country | OFFICIALChina | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Release | OFFICIALJul 28, 2025 | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Announcement | OFFICIALJul 27, 2025 | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Display type | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Display color | OFFICIALNo display | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Resolution | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Field of view | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Brightness | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Image in both eyes | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Camera | OFFICIAL12 MP | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Video | OFFICIAL1440p30 | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Microphones | OFFICIAL5 | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Speakers | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Wi-Fi | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Bluetooth | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Chip | OFFICIALQualcomm AR1 (Snapdragon AR1) | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI[1] |
| Memory | OFFICIAL2048 MB | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Storage | OFFICIAL32 GB | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| System | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Developer access | OFFICIALWe have not checked | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Prescription lenses | OFFICIALYes | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Battery | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Claimed battery life | OFFICIAL7 h | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Weight | OFFICIAL38 g | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
| Water protection | We have not checked | How we know: OPEN QUESTION |
| Price | OFFICIALCN¥1,999.00 | How we know: China Telecom / TeleAI |
Notes
- 1.Chip. Qualcomm AR1 (Snapdragon AR1), with a third generation Hexagon Tensor NPU and an Adreno A621 GPU
RMB 1,999 announced on 2025-07-29, on China Telecom's official Tmall store. No source we found says whether the price changed by September 2026, and no price in USD or BRL was found.
What we measured in the lab
We did not measure this device in the lab.
Our review
For
- China Telecom's own Xingchen model does live Chinese to English translation on the device
- OFweek reported a launch price of RMB 1,999, below Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses in China
- The charging case is rated for about 10 full recharges on top of about 7 hours of use
- Doctor Glasses offers a free eye exam and 30 percent off fitting prescription lenses into the frame
Against
- No software development kit for the glasses has been found; only cloud APIs for enterprise agents exist
- It is sold only inside China through Tmall, with no price ever reported in US dollars or Brazilian reais
- China Telecom's own materials show the interface and voice assistant only work in Chinese
- There is no display at all: it cannot show any information in the wearer's field of view
- Battery capacity in mAh for the glasses themselves is not disclosed, only the case's 3000mAh
Tianyi AI Glasses is China Telecom's first own-brand smart glasses, unveiled at WAIC 2025. It has no display: a 12MP camera up to 1440p30 and 5 microphones run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 chip with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.
China Telecom's own Xingchen model handles object recognition, OCR and live Chinese to English translation on the device. OFweek reported a launch price of RMB 1,999, undercutting Meta's Ray-Ban Display in China, with about 7 hours of use plus a 3,000mAh case good for roughly 10 recharges.
No software development kit for the glasses has been found, only cloud APIs for enterprise agents. Sales stay inside China through Tmall, no US dollar or real price was ever reported, and no independent review or 2026 market roundup mentions this device, suggesting limited traction a year after launch.
Verdict
No independent review of this device has been found as of 06/09/2026, and it is absent from 2026 roundups of the Chinese market. China Telecom sells this camera-only pair with its Xingchen translation model only inside China, with a Chinese-only interface and no SDK: not for a foreign buyer or a developer.
Images
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