Smartisan is a Chinese phone manufacturer best known for their Smartisan OS before their phones. There were rumours recently that the company was going to be acquired by Xiaomi, but the company quickly discarded them. Yesterday the company confirmed they were still in the business of manufacturing smartphones by releasing two Snapdragon 821 devices, the Smartisan M1 and Smartisan M1L.
From the name, some of you might have guessed correctly that they have different screen sizes but that is not only where the difference lies. Below is a full list of specifications for both devices.
Smartisan M1
- 5.15” 1080p JDI Display (95% NTSC Colour Gamut)
- Corning Gorilla Glass 4
- 2.35GHz Snapdragon 821 Processor
- 4GB LPDDR4 RAM
- 32GB ROM UFS 2.0
- 23 Megapixel Sony IMX318 Rear Camera with 4K and SloMo Recording, PDAF, OIS, and Laser AF
- 4MP OmniVison Front Facing Camera
- Dual Nano Sim Cards
- 2xCA Support Carrier Aggregation
- 4G+, 4G, 3G (WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, EVDO) 2G (CDMA and GSM) networks supported
- Bands Supported B1/ B2/ B3/ B4/ B7/ B9/ B12/ B17/ B18/ B19/ B20/ B26/ B28/ B38/ B39/ B40/ B41
- Front Facing Fingerprint Scanner with support for AliPay and
- Dual WiFi Bands, Bluetooth 4.1
- NFC
- 3050mAh ATL Battery
- Quick Charge 3.0 (24W)
- 149.36 x 71.75 x 8.22 mm
- 146g
Smartisan M1L
- 5.7” Sharp 2K Display (95% NTSC Colour Gamut)
- Corning Gorilla Glass 4
- 2.35GHz Snapdragon 821 Processor
- 4GB/6GB LPDDR4 RAM
- 32GB/64GB ROM UFS 2.0
- 23 Megapixel Sony IMX318 Rear Camera with 4K and SloMo Recording, PDAF, OIS, and Laser AF
- 4MP OmniVison Front Facing Camera
- Dual Nano Sim Cards
- 2xCA Support Carrier Aggregation
- 4G+, 4G, 3G (WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, EVDO) 2G (CDMA and GSM) networks supported
- Bands Supported B1/ B2/ B3/ B4/ B7/ B9/ B12/ B17/ B18/ B19/ B20/ B26/ B28/ B38/ B39/ B40/ B41
- Front Facing Fingerprint Scanner with Support for AliPay and
- Dual WiFi Bands, Bluetooth 4.1
- NFC
- 4080mAh ATL Battery
- Quick Charge 3.0 (24W)
- 159.66 x 78.96 x 8.32 mm
- 175g
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Smartisan loads both devices with their Android based Smartisan OS 3.0 out of the box. The Smartisan M1 comes in two colours: white matte aluminium and coffee gold leather and sells for 2499 Yuan ($371).The bigger M1L comes in the above mentioned colours for the 4GB RAM + 32GB variant which sells for 2799 Yuan ($415) and 2999 Yuan ($445) for the 6GB RAM+64GB ROM variant. A third variant of the M1L features a mirror finish, has 6GB RAM and 64GB ROM and sells for 3299 Yuan ($490).
