Performance
At the heart of the Idol S is the Mediatek MT6577 chipset, featuring a dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 processor. Paired with 1GB of RAM, it is capable of handling basic tasks and light multitasking common among budget devices of its era. The device runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, which was the standard at the time, offering a user-friendly interface with access to Google services and a variety of apps. However, due to hardware limitations, the performance might lag with intensive applications or heavy multitasking.