Low price for high features. Review on Coolpad Note 3 Lite

Coolpad is really a new brand for the India but Coolpad born in 2003 and the Yulong Coolpad( parent company) was established in 1993 in Shenzhen and now Coolpad is the largest smartphone company in China and largest Chinese domestic brand by sales outside of China.

Coolpad is doing great in India, the company continue introducing the new product one by one and the best thing about them is each of them comes with an excellent price tag without compromising the product quality. The only negative part of it is they use MediaTek chips instead of Qualcomm to reduce the cost of the product.

Now the question arises what is bad in MediaTek? The answer is simple overall performance.

MediaTek is a Taiwanese company. It uses more cores in its processors. Mediatek chipsets are known to be more power draining and result in less battery life, they are very good at multi-tasking because of more cores but again more cores demand more RAM to give the best performance, More performance= more cores= more heat= battery drain.

Coolpad Note 3 Lite it also ships with a MediaTek's MT6735 chipset. MediaTek's MT6735 SoC with a maximum clock speed of 1.3GHz paired with the Mali-T720 GPU and that beats out the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 clocked at 1.2GHz which employs the Adreno 306 GPU for graphics in benchmark tests.

Let's come to the pros and cons of Coolpad Note 3 Lite.

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PROS:

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1. Price! yes, it is the cheapest phone on the market with these specs.

   
   




2. Very simple and sleek design like its big brother without the Lite tag.

   
   




3. Fast and accurate fingerprint scanner.

   
   




4. Processor! MediaTek's MT6735 beats out the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 in benchmark tests.

   
   




5. Fast 3GB RAM with r/w speed of~ 3000MB/s( More than 2.3GB usable)+ 16GB inbuilt Flash memory( 10.9 usable) with read speed of~ 150MB/s and write speed of~ 40MB/s which is really good for the price tag.( Added screenshot)

   
   




6. Dual sim( both 4G) and MMC slot( supports up to 32GB only), It other words it does NOT use a hybrid slot for sim 2 and micro sd.

   
   




7. 5.0 inch HD IPS Display( Bigger the display more the productivity) .

   
   




8. Built on Stainless Steel Internal Frame.

   
   




9. Packed with 13MP and 5MP camera sensor.

   
   




10. Very good quality matte finish textured back feels premium and makes good grip in hands.( Added picture)

    
    




11. Arc Design and rounded corners do not hurt in the pocket.( Added picture)

    
    




12. COOLUI 6 with gestures control like double tap to wake, slide up to unlock etc.

    
    




13. Bundled with good quality charger, micro USB cable, screen protector and earphones.( Added picture)

    
    




14. Good protection around the camera lens with a metal frame.( Added picture)

    
    




15. A good output from the 3.5mm jack, all you need is a good app like poweramp and pair of good earphone. I tested it with bundled earphones and XB70AP.

    
    

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CONS:

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1. Made in China( All other brands started now making in India)

   
   




2. Camera( low light photography is very bad) and at this price tag other phones come with the better camera.

   
   




3. Non-Removable Battery and bad Battery backup, also battery takes long to charge and does not come with 2amp charger.

   
   




4. The Golden frame around the device can get scratched easily and then it will ruin the look of the device.( Added picture)

   
   




5. The camera is popping up from the back side, only using a back cover can save it from getting scratched.( Added picture)

   
   




6. The Menu, Home and Back keys are not backlit and does not look good.( Added picture)

   
   




7. No latest Android, Ships with Lolipop 5.1 and there is an OTA update available but still on 5.1.

   
   




8. Available only in white color for now.

   
   




9. Bundled earphones have no bass at all but again you got them for free with the device.

   
   




10. Speakers on the back side of the phone and very bad output from the speakers, you won't even hear it if the phone is in another room.

    
    

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VERDICT:

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For the price point, Coolpad Note 3 lite has given more than one can demand, this is the only phone that comes with good 3GB RAM, 16GB storage, and a good fingerprint sensor at this price tag. Without any second thought, I can say it is the best phone in the market right now with this price tag. The only things I don't like about it is the camera, speaker and battery performance.