Obi Worldphone MV1

It’s not uncommon to see companies introducing new phone ranges. But when Apple’s ex-CEO John Sculley burst onto the scene last year, launching two phones, pretty much the whole tech industry paid attention to him.
He’s the pioneer of the Obi Worldphone brand, which aims to create attractive but affordable smartphones targeted at younger buyers in developing regions across Asia, Africa and Middle East – as opposed to the US and Europe. Now, that’s quite a feat.
The company’s first phones, the SF1 and SJ1.5, were received well by techies right around the world and seen as viable alternatives to more known handsets like the Moto G and Honor 7. But that wasn’t enough for Obi.
Looking to achieve maximum impact on a global scale and to take advantage of the growing number of people wanting cheap phones, it decided it had to release another handset. Enter the MV1, an unlocked, dual-sim phone capable of running Android Lollipop or Cyanogen OS, and it’s available in the UK for a penny-pinching £119.

Key Features

5-inch, 720x1280 display

16GB of internal storage

Expandable memory up to 64GB via MicroSD

Android Lollipop 5.1/Cyanogen OS 12.1.1

Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 CPU

8-megapixel rear and 2-megapixel front cameras

Manufacturer: Obi Worldphone

Review Price: £119.00