Michael Coombes and James Atkins used to be executives in HTC's UK branch. Not too long ago, they departed the company, and now they're moving on to their next project. They've launched a new brand of smartphones, called Kazam, and announced the first seven devices that they'll be selling under the brand. Seven devices sounds like a flood of devices to announce at one time, but for a company that has no previous devices, I guess you have to start covering all of your bases right out of the gate.
The first two phones are the flagships of the bunch and will be sold as the Thunder Q5.0 and Thunder Q4.5. They'll sport a 1.3 GHz MediaTek quad-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, and stock Android 4.2. The 5.0 has a 5.0 inch screen and the 4.5 has a 4.5 inch screen, which is pretty simple. Unfortunately, the 854 x 480 looks like it might be the Achilles heel of the Thunder line, but maybe if they're priced well they'll have some success in the market.
The other five devices will be sold as Trooper phones with screen sizes ranging from 3.5 inches up to 5.5 inches, so whatever size you want, Kazam caters to it. The Trooper phones have just a dual-core processor and half the RAM, but otherwise keep the stock Android and other features.
Kazam is also offering two unique selling points with all of these devices. Similar to Amazon's new Mayday feature on their Kindle tablets, Kazam smartphones offer a Rescue button that will allow a Kazam employee to remotely connect to your device to help you out with problems. On top of that, Kazam will offer to replace a cracked screen on your device for the first year, completely free of charge. Sure, the specs aren't up to snuff with other flagships today, but with stock Android 4.2 and this kind of support, these devices stand a great chance to tackle the mid-range and budget market.
source: Techno Buffalo
hmm… interesting
interestingly the icons in the header grow with the screen size, or is that just a bad photoshop mistake (resizing the phones bigger)? Also looks like the soft buttons grow in size and relation to the larger phones, but prolly another photoshop mistake.
not sure what to think about a new company that has issues with attention to details like this. Does look like some of the soft buttons are different depending on model, but they do grow in size in relation to the phone.