A new mobile handset has been announced by the studio behind a suite of Android optimization apps and will go on sale in Europe this April for 199 euros (RM925).
Announced at the 2016 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and bearing the name of its studio, Cheetah Mobile, the CheetahPhone is being manufactured in partnership with another Chinese firm, Cubot.
Initial colour options for the 149 x 74.9 x 7.95mm phone are gold, rose gold, and space grey, while on the inside a 1.5GHz 64bit octa-core CPU and 3GB of RAM powers the device's full HD screen.
Samsung is supplying the 13-megapixel rear camera, and a secondary 8-megapixel lens is on the CheetahPhone's front; Cubot provides a launcher as well as its gallery and image transfer app.
Ten gigabytes of free cloud storage, the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system, and a rear panel fingerprint sensor are also named as features by the Kingsoft subsidiary, with Cheetah Mobile installing its own selection of 50 wallpapers and themes.
Cheetah Mobile has become best known for its Clean Master, CM Security and Battery Doctor apps, while highly rated gallery replacement QuickPic was acquired from a third party.
European pre-orders for the CheetahPhone will commence March 20 via Amazon. An African expansion is planned for a later date. — AFP Relaxnews
