Remember the iPhone 5C? Apple’s foray into making a plastic-cased, brightly colored line of theoretically cheaper iPhones may not have lasted long (largely due to people preferring the nicer aluminum models and the fact that they weren’t actually all that cheap), but Sharp’s new Android One S3 phone looks like it’s picking up the style of Apple’s short-lived experiment, with a few improvements, via GSMArena.

The Android One S3 costs 32,400 yen (roughly $300), putting it far more in line with mid-range and budget phones than the 5C ever was. The phone is also larger, with a 5-inch IGZO LCD display at 1080p resolution. The rest of the specs are uninspiring, at best — a Snapdragon 430 processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage,…

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