Remember QiKU? A few months ago, the new Chinese company boldly claimed that it wants to take on Xiaomi. If this leak is to be believed, QiKU is planning to do that in a big way with a highly ambitious smartphone.
While QiKU is a new brand, it’s actually a joint venture between two large companies: Qihoo 360, a security company, and Coolpad, the third largest smartphone manufacturer in China. According to this leak, its upcoming smartphone is said to be packing some serious hardware. These include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 128GB of internal storage, and a 20.7MP rear camera with optical zoom.
Needless to say, these are very high-end specifications. To top it off, the upcoming smartphone is said to feature a pressure-sensitive touchscreen, much like Apple’s Force Touch technology found in the Apple Watch (and possibly in upcoming iPhones as well).
If these high-end hardware were to come from a small company, we would be sceptical. But QiKU isn’t just any other company out there; it’s a joint venture between two mature companies. However, it’s worth noting that QiKU has not released any smartphone yet at this point in time.
QiKU is said to be unveiling this smartphone sometime this month. Apparently, this high-end offering will retail above 3,000 Chinese yuan, which comes up to about RM1,880. It will be interesting to see if this is enough to take on a big industry player like Xiaomi.
(Source: MyDrivers via GizmoChina)
First of all, they could at least try to come up with a better name than QiKU…
Guess their main target is China Mainland so i dont think the name will matter much for them.
It means something in Chinese duh. How does Afin sounds like ever wondered@@
Chinaman red sea battle start….. see who can sell at cheapest price with highest spec. End up all die, becoz margin low and competition too much, hard to sustain.
Even Law of Large Numbers also cant survive, since there is also a large number of cheap china phone to choose from. Though i am not an Apple Iphone user but got to hand it to them for selling a phone in large number and retaining high profit for each sales, unlike this China dude tat just come to spoil the market with cheap price phone which may end up doing more damage to the market.
Launch it first and then we will judge.
they have done a very bad job in collecting data… xiaomi doesn’t even care about this~ their main business is still the accessories, software and services that others still unable to cope with~ not even mentioning the phone offering which is almost the cost by itself~
please scrap the ‘one more thing’ tagline, don’t be a laughing stock for the world
If I’m in china, I’d buy LeTV’s phone