Obi, Co-Founded by Former Apple CEO John Sculley, has announced two new smartphones today, a high end yet affordable Worldphone SF1, and a budget mid ranged phone Worldphone SJ1.5. Obi will start shipping the phones from October this year in few countries including India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Pakistan and Turkey. Rest of the countries will receive the phone from year 2017.
Obi Worldphone SF1:
Talking about the phones, Obi Worldphone SF1 is a Dual SIM phone running on Android 5.0.2 Lollipop powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa-Core (ARM Cortex A53 – 4×1.5GHz + 4×1.0GHz) processor. It comes in two variants as per RAM and Storage. First is 2GB RAM with 16GB Storage and 3GB RAM with 32GB storage. Both variants support expandable memory upto 64GB.
It sports a Full HD 5 inch JDI In-Cell IPS floating glass display protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 oleophobic coating. It offers 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. Coming camera, we get a huge 13 Megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Sony IMX214 sensor and f/2.0 aperture. On the front it carries a 5 Megapixel shooter with LED flash. In terms of connectivity Worldphone SF1 supports 4G LTE/ 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n (Dual-Band), GPS / GLONASS and Bluetooth 4.0. Obi is running the phone on 3000mAh (built-in) battery.
Worldphone SF1 specifications:
- Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop)
- Dual (micro + nano) SIM
- 5 inch Full HD JDI In-Cell IPS floating glass display protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 and oleophobic coating
- 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa-Core (ARM Cortex A53 – 4×1.5GHz + 4×1.0GHz) processor
- 2GB RAM with 16GB internal storage
- 3GB RAM with 32GB internal storage
- Expandable upto 64GB using microSD card
- Adreno 405 GPU
- 13 Megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Sony IMX214 sensor and f/2.0 aperture
- 5 Megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash
- 4G LTE/ 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n (Dual-Band), GPS / GLONASS and Bluetooth 4.0
- 3000mAh (built-in) battery
Obi Worldphone SJ1.5:
This is the budget phone with Mid ranged specifications that includes 1.3 GHz MediaTek MT6580 processor with 1GB of RAM and Mali 400 MP2 GPU. The Dual SIM Worldphone SJ1.5 sports a 5 inch HD display with 2.5D curved glass protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and oleophobic coating offering 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. Coming out of the box with latest Android 5.1 operating system, it offers us an 8 Megapixel shooter with OmniVision OV8865 sensor, f/2.2 aperture and LED flash at rear facing, while the front carries a 5 Megapixel camera.
Worldphone SJ1.5 supports basic connectivity options including 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. It is running on 3000mAh (built-in) battery.
Worldphone SJ1.5 specifications
- Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
- Dual (micro) SIM
- 5 inch HD display with 2.5D curved glass protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and oleophobic coating
- 1280 x 720 pixels resolution
- 1.3 GHz MediaTek MT6580 processor
- 1GB of RAM
- 16GB internal storage, expandable upto 32GB using microSD card
- Mali 400 MP2 GPU
- 8 Megapixel rear camera with OmniVision OV8865 sensor, f/2.2 aperture and LED flash
- 5 Megapixel front-facing camera
- 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS
- 3000mAh (built-in) battery
Pricing:
Obi Worldphone SF1 with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage : $199 USD / Rs. 13,100 INR
Obi Worldphone SF1 with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage : $249 USD / Rs. 16,400 INR
Obi Worldphone SJ1.5 : $129 USD / Rs. 8,500 INR
