Cheetah Mobile and Cubot debuts $220 Android phone in Europe, on sale in April
Cheetah Mobile and Cubot have partnered up to introduce a co-branded smartphone called the CheetahPhone. It’s an Android-powered device that is priced at €199 (approximately $ 220) and is available to everyone in the European Union through Amazon starting in April with pre-orders beginning on March 20.
Rumored for the past couple of weeks, the CheetahPhone is the first branded smartphone for the company behind Clean Master and other mobile utility apps. It comes equipped with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, 10 GB of cloud and 32 GB of in-device storage, 3 GB of RAM, Cubot’s personalized launcher and its Gallery app with Wi-Fi Transfer to facilitate quick cross-device transfer of images, and also Cheetah Mobile’s HD wallpapers and themes.
Other features include having a ARM 64-bit octa-core 1.5GHz processor, a 1920×1080 HD display, fingerprint scanner in the rear of the device, and a 13-megapixel rear Samsung camera along with a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
The phone measures 149 x 74.9 x 7.95mm and is available in gold, rose gold, and space grey. So by comparison, the CheetahPhone is about as long and wider as the the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, but not as thin.
One of the selling points is the inclusion of Cheetah Mobile’s Clean Master software, which the company claims delivers 38 percent longer battery life when compared to devices using stock Android 5.1.1.
The CheetahPhone will start off in Europe before expanding to Africa in the upcoming months. A Cubot spokesperson told VentureBeat that the European Union is a major market not just for phones like the CheetahPhone, but the latest way of thinking for Chinese product companies moving into Europe…Sell on Amazon first!” As of right now, there are no plans to bring the smartphone to the United States.
Although Cheetah Mobile has its name associated with the phone, Cubot said that Cheetah Mobile won’t be “involved in distribution and selling of the devices.” However, we’re told, “Cheetah Mobile will, of course, be working with Cubot to promote the co-branded product. With the Clean Master already having well over 550 million users already, we think this phone will excite the existing Cheetah audience enough to purchase.”
The CheetahPhone works with all European carrier networks.
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