27th October 2015
With much fanfare, LeTV announced its new flagship flagship-killer product, the LeTV 1s. Building on the success of its first product, the LeTV one that packed a octacore processor into an “budget” priced phone, the LeTV 1S improves on the winning formula. The most visible upgrade is the full metal unibody, a technology that allows the phone to be more durable and more compact – in fact they claim it cuts down the thickness of phone by 2mm. The second biggest change is the inclusion of a ultra responsive finger print reader on the back face of the phone –  a design that is featured on other flagships like the LG G4. The other upgrades are more incremental – the screen has been upgrade to improve brightness, the camera has been upgraded to improve responsiveness, and the CPU is now 10% faster.
A feature that sounds really promising is their fast charge feature that is enabled with their new USB Type-C cable – a feature that could cut the time to charge the phone. LeTV claims that 3 hours of talk time could be obtained with just a 5 minutes charge. This sounds amazing if it works as advertised!
Whilst all these features sound great, they don’t deserve the “Flagship Killer” title. LeTV has a solution for that too – Â a huge price cut. Instead of selling this phone at the same price of the previous model, the chose to cut its price by 1/3, dropping the 1699 RMB price tag to a mere 1099RMB Â (172 USD). This seemly suicidal strategy has only been used by Amazon with their Kindle Fire tablets and have never been seen on a mobile phone. This phone is now priced at the Budget price point, but the performance and build is Samsung S6 level. Â It seems that LeTV is definitely looking at selling aftersale services such as their TV service to make their profit.
LeTV 1S Full Specs:
CPU : MediaTek helio X10 Turbo 8core 64bit ( 8×A53 )
GPU PowerVR G6200
RAM: 3GB LPDDR3 RAM
Back Camera: 13Megapixel F2.0, 4K recording
Front Camera: 5 Megapixel
Supports Bluetooth 4.0 (with apt-x)
Modem support: TD-LTE, FDD-LTE, WCDMA
More information could be found at:
http://www.lemall.com/le_1s.html
Now, I’m hesitating between “Mi4C Prime” and “LeTV 1S”.
I don’t know which one I should buy.
For LeTV 1S, Can it be root, remove bloat apps. like LeTV 1 (X600) ?
That’s really hard to say. None’s been able to play with the new phone yet. I do know that x600 was rooted by chinese forum user xiaolu within a few days of release. I personally couldn’t resist and bought a LeTV 1s (despite owning a x600) Because it looks amazing.
Yup, it can be unbloated and rooted