Vernee, a startup
based out of Shenzhen that's been creating smartphones since February of 2016,
announced at CES last month that it would be debuting a handset with MediaTek's
all-new Helio X30 processor at the 2017 Mobile World Congress.
The device in question is supposedly called the Apollo 2, and
Vernee is marketing it as the "world's first Helio X30 smartphone."
The phone will be a successor to the Vernee Apollo (pictured above), and for
those who care about all of the nitty gritty specs of MediaTek's latest piece
of silicon, the X30 consists of a deca-core setup with an IMG 7XTP-MT4 GPU
that's clocked at a speed of 820MHz.
In addition to the Helio X30, the Vernee Apollo 2
will also reportedly ship with a Quad HD display and come in two main
configurations - one with 64GB of storage and 6GB of RAM or 128GB of storage
with 8GB of RAM. The only other smartphone that we know of with 8GB of RAM is
Asus's ZenFone AR, and this is all quite impressive considering the young age
of Vernee as a company.
We currently don't have any word as to how much the
Apollo 2 will cost, but of the few handsets that Vernee has previously
released, we can likely expect the Apollo 2 to feature a very competitive price
tag as compared to competing handsets. Thankfully, with MWC right around the corner,
we likely won't have to wait too long to get more details on the upcoming
handset.
