PepsiCo Inc revealed In October that it was planning on launching an Android smartphone in China. A month later, it has unveiled the Pepsi Phone P1s in China. PepsiCo has roped in Shenzhen Scooby Communication Equipment Co. Ltd to manufacture a smartphone with Pepsi’s brand on it. As mentioned above, the smartphone is restricted to the Chinese market and the company has unveiled two variants – the standard variant called Pepsi P1, and the FDD-LTE supporting variant called P1s.
The smartphones are listed on crowdfunding website jd.com, and were first spotted by FoneArena. The campaign aims to reach 3,000,000 Yuan by December 3, and at the time of filing this story it had managed to raise 568,599 Yuan.
The smartphone at the early bird price of 499 Yuan has been sold out, and currently is available at 699 Yuan or Rs 7,200 approximately for 1000 units. At this price the smartphone will be available with a protective cover, USB cable and a charger. After the discounted batch of 1,000 units is depleted, another 1,000 devices will be available at CNY 999 ($157), and finally, “unlimited” quantities at 1,299 Yuan ($203) a pop.
The Pepsi Phone P1s flaunts a 5.5-inch full HD 2.5D curved screen display, and is powered by a 1.7GHz MediaTek MT6592 octa-core processor paired with Mali 450-MP4 GPU and 2GB of RAM.
Also on offer is 16GB internal storage, which can be expanded using a microSD card. On the photography front, the smartphone features a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 5-megapixel selfie camera, a 3,000mAh battery, and a fingerprint scanner located at the back.
Connectivity options include dual-SIM card slots, 4G LTE support, Wi-Fi 802.1 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS. On the software front, it runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop wrapped under dido OS 6.1.
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