Smartphone maker Wileyfox introduces Wileyfox Swift 2 and 2 Plus
British smartphone maker Wileyfox has presented the Swift 2 and Swift 2 Plus, two Android smartphones with the Android-based Cyanogen OS. The phones only differ in the camera used and the size of the working memory and storage.
In both cases, these are phones with a 5″ LCD with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels. The phone measures 143.7×71.9×8.6 mm, making it a substantial phone for a device with this screen size. The battery has a capacity of 2700mAh and supports Quick Charge 3.0.The battery should be half full within half an hour, claims the British manufacturer.
Both devices run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430, which has eight Cortex A53 processor cores at a maximum of 1.4GHz and an Adreno 505 GPU. The Swift 2 combines that with 2GB of lpdrr3 memory and 16GB of storage, while the Swift 2 Plus has 3GB of lpddr3 memory and 32GB storage, which is expandable via a slot for a microSD card. Both devices have a fingerprint scanner on the back and a USB-C port on the bottom. The Android smartphones have space for two SIM cards, both of which support 4G.
The Swift 2 has a 13-megapixel camera on the back, which is a Samsung S5K3L8. That’s a 13-megapixel Isocell-type sensor with a sensor size of 1/3.06″ and pixels of 1.12 microns. The front camera is an OV8856 from OmniVision, also with 1.12 micron pixels, but a sensor size of 1/4″. The front camera has no autofocus, the one on the back does.
The Swift 2 Plus has a 16-megapixel camera, but the manufacturer has not yet announced which one. If it is a Samsung sensor like that of the Swift 2, it is the S5K2P8. That is the only 16-megapixel sensor in the range of the South Korean manufacturer. That sensor has a size of 1/2.6 “and the pixels are the same size at 1.12 microns. Both phones have f/2.0 lenses for the cameras on the back.
The Swift 2 will be released in the Benelux within two weeks and will receive a suggested retail price of 199 euros. The Plus variant will be on the market at the same time for 239 euros. The announcement came as no surprise. Cyanogen, the company that makes the software for the devices, mistakenly put its Android releases for the phones online last week.