KFC launches limited edition smartphone and it comes with free fried chicken

The phones come fully loaded with 100,000 K-dollars - the restaurant’s very own digital currency - so the owners can gorge themselves on the Colonel's finest deep fried goods

Ben Chapman
Friday 14 July 2017 16:27 BST
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The phone has a 3,020mAh battery and features a fingerprint scanner, which could prove tricky to use after tucking into a bargain bucket
The phone has a 3,020mAh battery and features a fingerprint scanner, which could prove tricky to use after tucking into a bargain bucket

Fans of fried chicken and smartphones, rejoice! KFC has unveiled a new 5.5-inch phone complete with Colonel Sanders branding to celebrate 30 years since it first opened in China.

The fried chicken chain has partnered with Chinese smartphone maker Huawei to make the surprisingly high-spec limited edition handset.

KFC said it would make just 5,000 of the Enjoy 7 Plus Android devices. They come fully loaded with 100,000 K-dollars - the restaurant’s very own digital currency - so the lucky owners can gorge themselves on the Colonel's finest deep fried goods.

The Enjoy 7 is powered by a Snapdragon 425 processor and comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage with an option of up to 128GB of expandable memory.

The phone has a 3,020mAh battery and features a fingerprint scanner, which could prove tricky to use after tucking into a bargain bucket.

The device, which comes in KFC’s signature red colour, has a laser-engraved picture of Colonel Sanders on the back and retails at 1,099 yuan (£125).

The phone also comes with a KFC-branded music app pre-installed, which lets users create and share playlists at the company’s restaurants.

It’s not the first time the world’s best-known purveyor of fried chicken has launched an unlikely product.

In May last year it launched a range of KFC nail polish. It was, of course, edible and chicken flavoured - taking the “finger lickin’ good” slogan to that extra level.

The runaway success of that slightly dubious offering was followed up three months later with the even more questionable chicken-scented sunscreen. Some 3,000 tubes were snapped up in two hours.

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