Coolpad Conjr is an affordable metal phone with a great camera and terrible chipset
Coolpad released an oddball phone - the Conjr. It’s a $180 phone that offers some really top notch specs but a strange choice of chipset derails the whole thing.
The Coolpad Conjr has a sleek metal body with 2.5D glass on the front (70.6% screen-to-body ratio). The screen, by the way, is a 5” IPS LCD of 720p resolution.
Its camera department is particularly impressive, the main camera has a 13MP sensor and OIS, while the selfie cam has an 8MP sensor. Both cameras have LED flash and f/2.2 aperture. There’s even a fingerprint reader on the back.
And here’s where it goes wrong - the Conjr has a quad-core processor (Cortex-A53) clocked at a mere 1GHz. That’s it! And it can’t even record 1080p video, capping the camera at 720p. There’s plenty of RAM - 3GB! - but that feels like too much for a lowly CPU like that.
The Conjr runs Cool UI 8.0 (based on Android 6.0) and has 16GB of built-in storage, expandable through the microSD slot. Note that it’s a hybrid slot, the microSD replaces the second SIM. Yep, this is a dual-SIM phone with LTE connectivity (150Mbps) and 9 hours of talk time on 3G with the 2,500mAh battery.
There’s no word on launch date yet, but the phone will work with GSM carriers in the US (AT&T, T-Mobile) and there should be a Gold version later on.
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Reader comments
- Anonymous
- 06 Jan 2017
- MW2
Nice stereotyping, racist. The Chinese are also well known for high quality phones too, Xiaomi, ZUK, OnePlus. But sure, focus on the cheap phones.
- Anonymous
- 06 Jan 2017
- mTn
Hence their nickname "wall huggers".