Ottawa teen’s low-cost smartphone to take on Apple, Samsung

Moe Omer is about to take on tech giants Apple and Samsung with a launch of his possess smartphone next week, with one conspicuous disproportion between him and competition.

He’s rising a phone with some of a facilities you’d pattern in many mid-range phones, though for usually $180. Oh, and he’s usually 17 years old. 

What started out as a passion plan for a Ottawa teen has now blossomed into a full-blown entrepreneurial undertaking. 

Moe Omer, 17, is study industrial pattern while rising his new smartphone company. (Twitter/@therealmoeomer)

Omer told CBC Radio’s All in a Day that when he met with a millionaire financier and shared his idea, he was told he was on embarking on a fatuous enterprise.

“I kind of usually went with it, and he didn’t consider we were going to make it adult to this point. And we’re here now,” Omer said.

Omer is now a arch record officer of a new smartphone code “frank.” Along with his business partner and CEO, Fahd Alhattab, Omer hopes to attract impending business with an Indiegogo fundraising debate that will launch Sept. 5.

The new phone looks like your typical, complicated smartphone. It has a fingerprint reader, a 16-megapixel behind camera, a 5.5-inch HD display, and it runs on Google’s Android handling system.

But what stands out many about a phone is a price, that is a concentration of their cheeky social media campaign. 

No one likes a delayed phone, so we didn’t build a delayed phone: frank. has 4GB of RAM. Oh, and it’s usually $180… no biggie. pic.twitter.com/H3RaeDGkC1

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@frankisaphone

“I usually wish this to be a brutally honest, straightforward phone. we wish to be honest with everybody in a many heartless approach possible, and we’re not shying divided from opposite methods of marketing,” Omer said. 

The initial 500 phones will be accessible for a $180 price, though after that a cost jumps to $220. Omer hopes to attract a young, money-conscious demographic with a low cost tag. 

The running mantra behind building a phone over a past year was sacrifice.

Hoping to lift $250,000

The phone is done of aluminum, and a concentration is on adding facilities consumers will indeed use rather than carrying all a bells and whistles of a flagship phones from a large name manufacturers like Apple and LG.

“Have we ever used an IR blaster on your phone? Most people don’t even know what that is. You’re not going to be regulating things like laser autofocus, right?” Omer said. 

“Just being concerned in this plan has taught me a lot about what a tech attention is like, and how most distinction these companies are creation off of phones that cost a lot reduction than it takes to indeed manufacture.”

Omer will start university studies in industrial pattern subsequent week, usually as a Indiegogo debate launches. He’s anticipating to lift $250,000 with a debate to start mass production.

If a association doesn’t strech a goal, a phones will not be constructed and business will get their income back, according to Omer. 

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