This is by far the most random news you’ll hear all day. According to Reuters, there is going to be a Pepsi smartphone – yes, that’s Pepsi the soft drink supplier – released in China sometime in the future, possibly later this month. Just to be clear, Pepsi won’t be manufacturing the phones themselves, instead licencing their devices from actual manufacturers, but it’s still kind of a unexpected move all the same. Weirdly enough, there are leaks already available to suggest such a device already exists, with leaked details for a so-called Pepsi P1 circulating the Internet.
According to the leak, the Pepsi P1 carries a MediaTek processor clocked at 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 5.5-inch 1080p display. That makes the Pepsi P1 a pretty average mid-range device, if this all turns out to be true, and frankly we would have expected nothing less. Obviously this is more of a marketing ploy rather than a genuine attempt at being in the smartphone industry, and the alleged asking price of $200 USD will see it competing with plenty of other devices in the same price range. Don’t expect to see this device anywhere outside of China, unless it somehow turns out to be an overnight success.
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Source: Reuters, MobiPicker via engadget
