A Pepsi smartphone could soon become reality

Do not adjust your monitors, or rub your eyes. You’ve read that correctly. Pepsi is working on releasing a smartphone.

According to the latest crazy speculation flying out of Rumour Land, the soft drinks giant will be commissioning an as-of-yet unnamed Chinese smartphone manufacturer to create a Pepsi-branded handset.

The leaked specs don’t actually sound half bad either. A 5.5in 1080p screen, an octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor and 2GB of RAM make up the meat of the device, while a 13MP camera and 16GB of (probably expandable) storage round things off.

It’s no flagship killer, sure, but for a presumably inexpensive smartphone with a Pepsi logo slapped on the back? Not a bad effort, although that doesn’t make it any less absurd.

Android 5.1 – no doubt skinned with Pepsi branding – will also be loaded up on the device, along with a generous 3000mAh battery to keep it going in between drinking delicious refreshing glasses of Pepsi (TM).

If this all turns out to be true, then we expect a rebuttal from Coca Cola – possibly in the form of a can-shaped tablet which offers instant refreshment via drone delivery.

[via Tech Radar]

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