JiaYu have been steadily releasing more news of their JiaYu S1, and today we have some nice high-definition photos plus first look at some accessories.
The model in the photos is the black JiaYu S1 which like the G4 has a stealthy all black design, bar the steel band which runs around the phone, which is actually part of the stainless steel chassis holding the phone together!
We have already asked if the S1 will feature back-lit capitative buttons or not as we know this was a feature some JiaYu G4 owners would have liked, and we will post details when we get an answer. JiaYu have confirmed that the S1 will have backlit buttons.
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Comparing the S1 to the G4 and we can see there is very little difference in size although the S1 has a larger 5-inch 1080 panel and the G4 a 4.7-inch screen.
Anyone buying the JiaYu S1 is going to want to keep the phone in tip-top condition so the S1 will also have a range of silicon cases available in a a number of colours including black, blue, green, pink and yellow.
The cases hug the shape of the phone very well, we just hope that this new case will be slightly thinner than the model sold for the JiaYu G4.
We hope that JiaYu plan to launch the JiaYu S1 pretty soon, and that they are going to send us one for review.
Nice!! can’t wait to read a review!
JiaYu have confirmed that they will send us a review phone 🙂
That’s really good news!
I jelly you Andi, you get to touch all the good stuff.
Send it to me and I will do a review……and compare it to the G4 ….
😉
I prefer the camera/flash placement of the G4 over the S1 placement.
Overall the phone still looks amazing.
Looks pretty good.
If there are two versions, start manufacturing now – we are waiting 🙂
Where Jiayu
Might not be a very good idea to release this phone soon, at least from JiaYu’s point of view since the G4 still has some way to go!
Well in that case we will be waiting for quite some years then.
I really want(ed) to have this phone, oh well. 🙁
I would prefer the G4 advanced with dual sim. But even this is not available anywhere.
Andi, somebody told me in pvt S1 will support dual sim, normal + micro SIM. Official specifications are not clear about it (google translate is not so reliable).
Can you ask to Jiayu about dual sim support?
You ever see ANY snapdragon 600 with dual sim support? heck do you think S600 even has dual sim support?
No? well that’s your answer.
I didn’t see any S600 + dual sim smartphone … YET!
I don’t know if S600 can manage dual sim architecture… I didn’t found anything about supported networks (frequancy, protocols, etc.)
Does anyone know how much the S1 approximately is going to cost and when it will be released & available?
Kind regards
Nothing has been confirmed by anywhere between 1700 Yuan and 2000 Yuan (so $320 at the most), but these are the Chinese prices.
Okay thank you!
I really wish they would make a phablet with a built in stylus. I like their product and would love to see them venture into a larger size. 5″ isn’t much bigger than their current models. I would like to see them make a 7″ or even a 6 and 1/2 ” model. Again make it with a built in stylus.
A proper digitizer to make a stylus by any means worth while – will probably bump Jiayu well out of their comfort zone price-wise. There’s a reason the Galaxy Note 10.1 is stilo expensive, and still selling well after all this time. That kind of digitizer is _expensive_