Chinese smartphone for children has a 5” screen and no games or social media

The Chinese brand Duoqin has presented the Qin3 Ultra, a smartphone that it targets schoolchildren in China. The device is relatively small and has its own download store without games, social media and video apps.

The phone measures 12.7×6.2cm, while many phones are at least 15.5x7cm and in many cases much larger. The device is 118g heavy and 8.7mm thick. This makes it about the size of an iPhone 5s from 2013.

The brand has a download store free of games, social media apps and video apps to reduce distractions for its target audience. The screen has a diagonal of 5.02 inches. The screen ratio is 19:9, but the exact resolution and refresh rate are unclear. It is an LCD.

The phone runs on a MediaTek Helio G99-soc. It has two Arm Cortex A76 cores at 2.2GHz and six Cortex A55 cores at 2.0GHz, with a Mali G57MC2 GPU. The phone has 8GB of RAM and storage with a capacity of 256GB. The device has a 2500mAh battery. The phone costs 1599 yuan in China, currently equivalent to approximately 215 euros. Duoqin is affiliated with the major smartphone brand Xiaomi. Duoqin phones have not been released outside of China until now.