Cherry Mobile Candy, Candy Chat: Cheapest Androids

Cosmic Technologies (Cherry Mobile) is once again challenging the Android market by introducing the cheapest Android handsets yet — the Cherry Mobile Candy and Candy Chat — at Php3,699.

These units are really cheap so we shouldn’t expect a lot from them. I guess the only reason for introducing them is that more folks can now afford to buy an Android smartphone.

On the other hand, these are dual-SIM phones too.

Cherry Mobile Candy specs:
2.8″ resistive screen @ 240×320 pixels
Dual-SIM, Dual-standby
MediaTek 416MHz processor
256MB ROM
128MB RAM
up to 16GB via microSD
WiFi 802.11 b/g
GPRS/EDGE
Bluetooth 2.1
1.3MP camera
FM radio
Android Froyo 2.2
Retail price: Php3,699

Cherry Mobile Candy Chat specs:
2.4″ resistive screen @ 240×320 pixels
Full qwerty keypad
Dual-SIM, Dual-standby
MediaTek 416MHz processor
256MB ROM
128MB RAM
up to 16GB via microSD
WiFi 802.11 b/g
GPRS/EDGE
Bluetooth 2.1
1.3MP camera
FM radio
Android Froyo 2.2
Retail price: Php3,699

Note: Photos to follow. Still looking for a CD drive to copy the press materials.

What Cherry Mobile did here was take their really affordable handsets and instead of putting the usual dumb-phone OS (those Java-type operating systems), they opted for the more popular one and installed Android in them.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

93 Responses

  1. Avatar for Name: ervin gumpay Name: ervin gumpay says:

    nakaka irita talaga ang cm phones lalong lalo na pagdating sa internet.laging mag coconection failed.sa b pa sa tv. Click na click ang cherry m0bile(2x) click tayo sa cherry m0bile. N your dreams. Hndi dorable at madaling masra,china phne talaga,how poor.

  2. Avatar for Gabs Gabs says:

    I’m a fan of CM Burst and Flare. Pero cheap android phone lang naman ang need nyo, bili na lang kayo ng Cloudfone for 1999. Mas higher ang specs kumpara dyan.

  3. Avatar for Gerry Gerry says:

    its sound advice to choose Flare or Burst Instead.

  4. Avatar for vind ipad vind ipad says:

    I was curious if you ever thought of changing the page layout of
    your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to
    say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so
    people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of
    text for only having one or two images. Maybe you could space it out better?

  5. Avatar for iromays iromays says:

    pede ba lagyan ng instagram ang cherry mobile candy chat?

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