Budget phones, metal bodies

Cloudfone and its sister company CellPrime had a bunch of announcements today, though one of the best ones (at least for the budget-minded) is the revelation that their Excite line of devices will now have metal bodies from this point on.

To kick things off, two new Excite devices dubbed the Thrill Lite and the Thrill HD.

Cloudfone Thrill Lite

• 1.3GHz quad-core processor
• 512MB of RAM
• 5-inch FWVGA display
• 8GB of expandable storage
• 5-megapixel rear camera
• VGA front camera
• Dual SIM
• 3G
• WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, A-GPS
• Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Cloudfone Thrill HD

• 1.3GHz quad-core processor
• 1GB of RAM
• 5-inch HD display
• 8GB of expandable storage
• 8-megapixel rear camera
• 2-megapixel front camera
• Dual SIM
• 3G
• WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, A-GPS
• Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Both phones are also powered by Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The Thrill Lite is priced at Php 1,999, while the Thrill HD is Php 2,999.