Obi Worldphone, which was earlier known as Obi Mobiles, is re-enetering Indian market with a new smartphone, Obi Worldphone SF1. The company has been floated by ex-Apple CEO John Sculley.
The Obi Worldphone SF1 is expected to be made available in India this month for less than Rs 15,000. It will be available in two variants – one with a 2GB RAM and 16GB inbuilt storage while another variant will come with 3 GB RAM and 32GB storage variant.
As per a spokesperson of the company, the new Obi smartphone have been designed by San Francisco-based product studio Ammunition, which also developed Obi Lifespeed, a custom user interface based on Android.
Obi Worldphone SF1 comes with 4G LTE support and has a metallic unibody and a 5-inch JDI In-Cell IPS full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) display that has Corning Gorilla Glass 4 screen protection. It is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 (MSM8939) SoC clocked at 1.5GHz and Adreno 405 GPU.
The Android 5.0.2 Lollipop operating system based SF1 sports a 13-megapixel Autofocus camera with LED Flash, Sony Exmor IMX214 sensor and f/2.0 aperture. For selfies and video calling, it offers a 5-megapixel front camera with LED flash. This Dual-SIM (Micro+Nano SIMs) smartphone offers two microphones for noise cancellation, Dolby Audio Surround, and Quick Charge 1.0 for fast charging.
Obi Worldphone SF1 is powered by a 3000 mAh battery and features an accelerometer, proximity sensor, gyroscope, and ambient light sensor. It measures 146x74x8 mm and weighs 147 grams.