In general Philipps smartphones have been well designed, but more on the low end spectrum. The new Philips i966 sporting AliBaba’s YunOS shows that they creat full blown FlagShips too!

In the past consumers have mostly been impressed by Philipps, beautiful design, seldom by the phone’s pricing or specs. The Philips i966 promises a fresh start. It is the first real flagship from Philips and the first overall flagship to sport Alibaba’s YunOS 3.0 ( based on Android 4.4)

The Philips i966 specs are definitely surprisingly good: The phone comes with 5.5 inch 2K QHD display, Snapdragon 801 processor at 2.5 GHZ, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. The phone also sports an impressive 8MP Selfie Cam and 20.7 Sony Main Camera with F1.8 aperture. The Phone Sports of course LTE and Dual Sim as well.

According to Philips the i966 is the first smartphone with a glass panel that is curved to all edges on the i966 body. According to the press images, you also get a fingerprint scanner on the i966 phone.

Philipps will start selling this beast on November 1st, a few weeks before Meizu is launching their Meizu MX4 Pro. We dont have more informations about the pricing, but we will keep you updated!