REVIEW: Xiaomi Qin 1s+ 4G LTE AI Feature Phone, KaiOS Competitor?!

Xiaomi Qin 1s+ AI Cell Phone: 4G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Infrared

Details:
VoLTE 2.8 inch Display A53 1.3GHz Dual Core 512MB RAM 4GB ROM Infrared Remote Control GPS Dual SIM Card 1480mAh Battery Bluetooth 4.2

Qin 1S+ as a smart feature phone features 2.8 inch display afford you a vivid and different visual experience. You can enjoy images with 240 x 320 resolution. It comes with most of the features we've come to expect from a smartphone, including 512MB RAM 4GB ROM storage equipped with 1480mAhbattery

Main Features:
Qin 1S+ 4G AI Cell Phone VoLTE 2.8 inch Display A53 1.3GHz Dual Core 512MB RAM 4GB ROM Infrared Remote Control GPS Dual SIM Card 1480mAh Battery Bluetooth 4.2
●Display: 2.8 inch
●CPU: A53 Dual Core
●System: Mocor 5
●RAM + ROM: 512MB RAM 4GB ROM
●SIM Card: Dual SIM

Networks:
GSM: B2/3/5/8
WCDMA: B1/2/5/8
FDD-LTE: B1/2/3/5/8
TDD-LTE: B38/40/41

The Qin series shares the name of the famous Chinese dynasty, but in English, it sounds more like “chin.” The first two phones are similar in looks - 2.8” screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, tucked along with the keypad in a 132 x 53.8 x 8.5 mm body. There is a dual slot for micro SIM

The Qin 1s comes out with Spreadtrum chipset with two Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.3 GHz. RAM is 512MB, while storage is 4GB. Connectivity includes VoLTE, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2. It has a USB-C charger and stereo speakers (one which doubles as the earpiece) on the top and bottom of the phone.

Unique features include Xiaomi's Xiao AI digital assistant, smart language translator, and online radio stations. The phone runs on a heavily customized version of Android underneath.

[nickart]

I think that it’s looking pretty cool, but I would love to see the next version with aluminum unibody, front-& back camera, as well as a simple App Store...

[adews]

I really like this phone! It dose have some drawbacks like the lack of third party apps and a camera. But I still think this phone is cool, it's interesting how it's like and older style candy bar phone but with a modern makeover.

Keep up the fantastic work on the reviews!

[sleepysonic]

Without apps, kinda hard to compete, so much isnt just calls and sms now. Kai OS' concept is exciting, but when I looked at the subreddit I didn't see good praise. It sounds like the web apps slow down, and crash from memory leaks just as you would expect them to running a firefox based engine on such low powered phones.
It's ironic in a way, web apps end up being the simplest stuff, but they're actually the type of apps that require the most resources due to how poorly optimised the DOM is.
Would it really be so bad just to resurrect symbian for these feature phones? I think maybe not.

[jiggerabina]

Is that the sound of the keypad when you press it or its just a keypad tone?

[phuongkak]

Wish a phone like this with Nokia brand. Usb C, no camera, kaiOs or s40. Miss my Nokia 515

[mister_incredible]

Can the hot key for the AI voice assistant be changed to a shortcut for another function?

[vishu]

Can you check wired earphones work with this phone?

[lifethings]

Really awesome review! Precise, on-point, and in English. Thank you :) I just have one question. Does this phone have a built-in call recorder?

[arvaneret_]

What's the point of KaiOS if the team behind this operating system make it resemble Android more and more, as time goes on? I don't know much about it but it used to give the impression that it would revolutionize the feature phone for a contemporary market with a whole, new set of needs, without Google's tentacles manipulating it. But that's not the case anymore.

The kind of people who need or want a feature phone, would buy one for two main reasons:
a) Affordability, which also implies ease of replacement and so on.
b) A desire to stay away from smartphones for a variety of reasons: their addictiveness, their frequent intrusion in daily activities, their many ways to invade privacy; a disregard for smartphones or an unfamiliarity to them.

KaiOS seemed to be a good contender for offering a modern, polished solution for the needs a feature phone represents as a device for basic telecommunication, but why add in wifi, apps, an AI assistant and the like? Isn't that an equivalent to slowly building an OS that's meant for smartphones instead of feature phones?

[moacyrribeirofilho]

Esse Pheature Phone Da Xiaomi Quando Estará Liberado Ou Disponível Aqui No Rio De Janeiro RJ Brasil BR

[kazishakil]

The Legendary Feature Phones Is Nokia 3310 (2017).. just amazing and i use my Secondary phone this.

[Slashj]

ty very much for the info. does it have touch?

[owieuychiat]

Hi, can you do hotspot from the 4g network?

[galiabdulkareem]

I need the one with full androids features such as play play and email

[brutbear]

I like the outlook with big keys, hope they will do one with selfie camera

[russianrabbit]

7:15 how can I play a YouTube video on my browser like yours? My browser can't do that.

[morelove]

hey man thanks a lot for the review. It has everything I need exept camera! But I will buy it. Radio, Mp3, internet,

[brandsplanet]

Does it have a Hotspot option that lets you use 4G internet from it.

[aleksandr]

This is not kaiOS, Android 4.4 is installed here, and on top of it is the Chinese mocor 5 shell

[MarcosGarcia-kxrb]

Great concept and performance it's so sad that Xiaomi cares very little to port this products outside if china.