Can’t Afford The iPhone X? China Already Made An Android Lookalike That Costs Only RM1,200
It even has the "notch".
By John Lim — 13 Dec 2017, 06:47 PM
Apple might say the iPhone X represents the future of smartphones, but the phone's hefty price tag is an expensive pill for your wallet to swallow
The retail price for the iPhone X is RM5,149 for the 64GB model and a whopping RM5,899 for the 256GB model.
Not everyone can fork out five grand for a phone - which was probably the reason why this Chinese brand made a device that's so similar to the iPhone X, but for only a fraction of the price
Leagoo, a small smartphone company based in Shenzen, has recently unveiled the S9, which looks remarkably similar to the iPhone X.
The Android-based device has the edge-to-edge display, trademark "notch", glass and aluminium casing, and the same vertically-aligned camera module. It has a fingerprint sensor too!
While the new phone may look like an iPhone X on the outside, don't expect the internal specs to match Apple's top-of-the-line model
The S9 sports a 5.85-inch AMOLED display, MediaTek’s mid-range P40 processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a pair of 16-megapixel cameras.
For comparison, the iPhone X features a 5.8-inch OLED screen, A11 Bionic processor, 64GB or 128GB of storage, 3GB of RAM, and two 12-megapixel telephoto cameras.
Most importantly, the S9 comes in at USD300 (RM1,225), significantly less than the iPhone X's price. The S9 is only available in China for now.