I missed it's first media introduction of this new venture from MyPhone's parent company, Solid Group but I was lucky that they recently had a round 2 of it. Their new tech brand with some MLM in the mix, Brown and Proud. As one of their offerings, I was able to check out the Brown and Proud Brown 1 smartphone
First, you can check out the partial specs of this smartphone here but I will fill in some of the missing info
These are the front and back views of the phone. The overall look of the phone is pretty good and it's been a while that I managed to get a grip of an 4.7 inch phone. The display was also good and the on-screen controls were present and there's no app drawer. Finally, the phone revealed it's battery capacity based on the sticker which is at 1,800 mAh plus it does not have a removable back cover.
The top has 3.5 mm audio jack and IR blaster (which is to be confirmed if this is really enabled for use) while at the bottom, the OTG capable micro USB port and pin hole microphone. The 5.8 mm. thickness is reallt there and the gorgeous curves too.
The left has hybrid dual SIM tray (1 nano + 1 micro SD, do not mind that the tray is missing in this pc) while at the right, the volume rocker and power/unlock button
Another view of the custom UI. The internal memory is quite spacious out of it's 16 GB internal memory and a proof that this phone has OTG support
I also uncovered the processor and what I can get from the benchmark apps. It's confirmed that Brown 1 has 1.3 GHz Mediatek MT6737 64-bit quad-core processor. It has accelerometer, light, proximity, gyro and sound sensors. On Antutu, it gave me at almost 27,000.
Brown And Proud confirmed that the Brown 1 will only be available online as part of their new approach. There will be also the Brown Agila app which worked just like the same as their previous MyPhone Agila Rewards with ads on the lockscreen in exchange of rewards and the Brown and Proud magazine app which gives more info like in a magazine in a digital way. Unfortunately, I was unable to get some cam samples as the demo unit is already at low battery state. For me, the Php 9,500 asking price is quite steep despite of it's given specs and features
