After several leaks, the first ever smartphone from Pepsi has been announced in China. Dubbed the Pepsi Phone P1, the phablet sized device is a mid-range one and the version for China Unicom called Pepsi Phone P1s has FDD-LTE support. Blue, Gold and Silver are the available colours.
The Pepsi Phone P1 runs Dido OS 6.1 (based on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and manufacturing is done by Shenzhen Scooby Communication Equipment. With a full aluminium metal unibody, the device sports a 5.5-inch Full HD display with 2.5D glass ontop, has Dual Hybrid SIM slots with the other sim slot acting as the microSD card slot.
Under the hood sits an octa-core Mediatek MT6592 processor clocked at 1.7GHz with Mali-450 MP4 GPU, 2GB of RAM and 16GB built in storage space. For photography, there is a front facing 5-Megapixels camera for selfies and a rear facing 13-Megapixels camera with LED flash.
The fingerprint sensor sits just below the main camera on the rear and the Pepsi Phone P1 measures 152.2 x 76.2 x 7.7 mm in dimensions, weighs 158 grams and is backed by a 3000mAh battery. Connectivity options on the device includes – 4G LTE / 3G, Wi-Fi 802.1 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.
The Pepsi Phone P1s is being sold through crowdfunding in batches of 1000; the first batch sold out for CNY 499 ($78) and the second is currently going for CNY 699 ($110). More batches will available in CNY 999 ($156) and CNY 1299 ($204). The company hopes to achieve a total goal of CNY 3,000,000 Yuan (approx USD 470,000) by the 3rd of December.
Source: FoneArena
