Onkyo, known for its achievements on the audio market, is attacking the smartphone market. It has solid weapons - it is in fact a smartphone with high-end music player - DP-CMX1 Granbeat.
Onkyo Granbeat received a 5-inch IPS FullHD display with Gorilla Glass 3 and a six-core Snapdragon 650 CPU clocked at 1.8/1.6 GHz. This system is supported by 3 GB of RAM and the internal memory is 128 GB and it can be expanded with a miiroSD card with another 256 GB. The phone supports two nanoSIM cards, it has also of course modules LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS/GLONASS and Bluetooth 4.1 with support for SBC and apt-X/apt-X HD codecs. The versatility of the device improves the microUSB port with support for OTG mode.
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Onkyo Granbeat received a 16-megapixel Sony Exmor RS IMX298 camera with lens with f/2.0, LED flash and filming in 4K and an 8-megapixel front camera, with a lens aperture of f/2.2. It has a battery capacity of 3000 mAh and all is enclosed in a metal casing measuring 142.3 x 72 x 11.9 mm. There were also installed additional dedicated buttons and a potentiometer supporting sound. The phone weight is 234 g.
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In Onkyo Granbeat the most important, however, is sound. The phone has received an extensive music player with DAC Sabre ES9018C2M and a headphone amplifier Sabre 9601K. These elements are mirrored, there are separate for each of the stereo channels. Audio components are separated from other smartphone systems, mounted on a separate board to avoid any possible interference. The phone has two headphone minijack outputs of 2.5 and 3.5 mm, both with the possibility of working as a line-in and a microphone connection. The player supports formats DSD, DSF, DSD-IFF, MQA, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, Ogg-Vorbis, MP3 and AAC. Phone buyers will also receive a credit for downloading from the site e-Onkyo Music. The price is 91,584 yen, which gives $ 807.
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Source Onkyo
16.04.2026
