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Yezz Billy and Andy 5S: Same phone, your choice of OS

2015-01-04
hello I'm the Westway for CNET's here at CES 2015 with the yes Andy and the Billy 5s now this is quite an interesting concept because they are the same phone but they come with your choice of operating system let's take a look so the hardware on both these phones is identical they're kind of reasonably powerful but still mid-range devices so for example they both have quad-core processors you get 4G LTE onboard they have a 5 inch 720p display there's a 13 megapixel camera on the back and a 5 megapixel camera on the front what's different now is that yes is launching these two versions of the 5s with two different operating systems so on the one hand you get Billy which is the Windows Phone version that's going to launch perhaps with Windows Phone 8.1 but yes as its hoping to get Windows 10 on there and then there's the Android version which is appropriately named and e5s and that's running KitKat at the moment but again they're hoping to get lollipop onboard so in terms of specs these are kind of mid-range handsets but I do think that the concept is really interesting I like the idea of choosing the design and the brand of the phone you like and then getting to choose the operating system later yes is that both versions of the 5s are going to be on sale before the summer and they're going to cost under 300 u.s. dollars let me know what you think and check out cnet.com / - yes for much much more
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