Cherry Mobile is a Philippine
mobile phone and
electronics brand by Cosmic Technologies, established by Maynard Ngu in 2009. In 2010, barely two years after it started, Cherry Mobile was voted IT Company of the Year in the 3rd CyberPress Awards, upstaging some of the country's technology giants. The company imports
mobile phones
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manufactured by
original design manufacturers in
China
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and
markets them under the Cherry Mobile brand.
Most of Cherry Mobile's current lineup come with
Wi-Fi,
capacitive touch screens and run on the
Android
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,
Windows, and
Windows Phone operating systems;
a line of smart feature phones running
Firefox OS named Cherry Mobile Ace was also sold by the company for a time before it was later discontinued.
History
Apart from being the first legal mobile phone brand with
dual
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and triple
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) systems in the
Philippines,
Cherry Mobile also marketed the first
Windows-enabled phone in the country as a result of an exclusive partnership with
Microsoft.
In 2013 Cherry Mobile expanded its market by distributing their products in Thailand and in Myanmar.
In 2015, Cosmic Technologies, along with rival mobile device company
MyPhone, partnered with
Google for the
Android One initiative, both of them releasing their respective devices based on Google's reference designs using
MediaTek's quad-core
MT6582 system-on-chip.
In June 2015, Cosmic Technologies announced that they will be launching two
Windows Phone handsets preloaded with
Windows 10 Mobile under their mobile phone brand, namely the Alpha Prime 4 and the Alpha Prime 5, which was released in the second half of 2015. Both devices came with a 1.1 GHz quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 210, support for WCDMA 900/2100, FDD-LTE B1/B3/B5/B7, and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera. The Alpha Prime 4 will have a 4-inch screen, a 5 megapixel main camera, 4 GB of ROM, and 512 MB of RAM, while the Alpha Prime 5 will have a 5-inch screen, 8 megapixel main camera, 8 GB of ROM and 1 GB of RAM.
Cherry Mobile Flare S7 series' specifications and design were leaked ahead of their launch on 12 October 2018. Its design for the S7 Deluxe and Plus series were using the long notch from the
iPhone XS.
In 2016, Cherry Mobile established official presence in Europe. It started distributing its products in Germany.
Cherry Mobile was placed under a bigger brand known as Cherry in 2020, along with other brands by Cosmic Technologies including Cherry Prepaid, Cherryroam, Cherry Home, and Cherry Pet.
Cubix
In 2015, Cosmic Technologies introduced a new smartphone brand named Cubix, with its first product being the Cubix Cube. The Cubix brand is Cosmic's response to the growing segment of budget-priced midrange phones, usually dominated by Chinese brands such as
Lenovo
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. The Cubix Cube has 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of ROM, a 13 megapixel rear camera and an 8 megapixel front camera. The phone also comes bundled with the
Lazada app and is available through Lazada Philippines.
Flare
See also
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List of mobile phone makers by country
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References
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Philippine brands
2009 introductions
Telecommunications in the Philippines