Snapdragon 615 equipped Coolpad Great God F2 has FDD-LTE and will launch tomorrow

AndiOctober 27, 2014

Around 2 months ago Chinese phone fanatics were treated to the CoolPad Great God F2. With amazing specs and a low price international fans were green with envy, but not for much longer.

In less than 24 hours, China’s Coolpad will be releasing the China Unicom version of the Great God F2. The F2 is the second generation Xiaomi Redmi slayer from Coolpad, boasting a 5.5-inch 1280 x 720 display, 2GB RAM, 13 megapixel F2..0 main camera and 64bit processor.

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Customers on China Unicom mobile networks in China, or those of you not living in China will be excited to know that this version of the phone uses a Snapdragon 615 8-core processor running 1.5ghz and has dual SIM support for FDD-LTE and WCDMA networks meaning it will work outside of China.

Pricing in China will be a cool 999 Yuan, international customers will need to wait for resellers to get stock before pricing and availability is announced, but expect the phone to begin shipping ahead of Christmas.

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Andi

Can’t wait to buy it as soon as possible.
Raul
October 27, 2014
Can’t wait to buy it as soon as possible.
H
October 27, 2014
5.5 inch, bleah.
Evgenij Nebotov
October 27, 2014
yep, owning a 5.5 inch e-ceros one for two months i now have a buyers remorse and would love to get back to down to 5inch mtk6595 something like tcl idol+++:)
Guest
October 27, 2014
5.5 inch, bleah.

ferdi
October 27, 2014
about time 🙂 been waiting on this update.put off buying the redmi note waiting on this launch. jingdong might have it internationally soon i hope
trolleyfan
October 27, 2014
If all this is true then this is my next smartphone. 🙂
Owsley_66
October 27, 2014
Maybe 4G for U.S. Coolpad does sell phones here under MetroPcs and maybe others.

Evgenij Nebotov
October 27, 2014
yep, owning a 5.5 inch e-ceros one for two months i now have a buyers remorse and would love to get back to down to 5inch mtk6595 something like tcl idol+++:)
ferdi
October 27, 2014
about time 🙂 been waiting on this update.put off buying the redmi note waiting on this launch. jingdong might have it internationally soon i hope
trolleyfan
October 27, 2014
If all this is true then this is my next smartphone. 🙂

Owsley_66
October 27, 2014
Maybe 4G for U.S. Coolpad does sell phones here under MetroPcs and maybe others.
Blade
October 27, 2014
I own f1 and i’m not sure I’ll be changing it with this one – I was hoping for FHD screen
wsamland
October 27, 2014
I got one last week. It has decent performances, although the Cool UI OS can be annoying as it is clearly aimed at chinese users. Google play does not load properly, but apps can easily be sideloaded via the file manager. Battery life has been pretty good so far, much better than my iNew v3. International users may want to note that my copy only has options for English and Mandarin, no other languages.
- Riccardo Benzoni
  October 28, 2014
  how does this processor compares to mt6592? Is the performance gap huge? Right now I’m pretty satisfied with Coolpad F1, and from what I’ve seen this Snap615 (which isn’t krait, but arm) doesn’t seem a huge update in comparison, at least not worthy if you come from the mt6592! What do you think about it?
  The coolui is only english and chinese, there is no official multilanguage for it, as you said it’s aimed at chinese market, but if this phone is supported as the F1, custom rom will arrive soon!
  - wsamland
    October 29, 2014
    F1 seems to have decent ROM support, so fingers crossed that one will come out for the F2 pretty soon. CoolUi is not terrible and some of the chinese apps are surprisingly decent, but I generally prefer vanilla android over other versions. It is based on 4.4.2 at least I dunno about how it compares speed-wise to mt6592, but it is noticeably smoother than the inew v3 that it replaced. Much better battery life as well.
    - Giovanni
      November 2, 2014
      Hi, what score with antutu benchmark? The external sound it’s louder? Can you switch the data signal on 36 or 4G on two sim? Which band FD LTE have?
      Thank You
  - Giovanni
    November 2, 2014
    Hi, what score with antutu benchmark? The external sound it’s louder? Can you switch the data signal on 36 or 4G on two sim? Which band FD LTE have?
    Thank You
- Chavdar Ivanov Chavdarov
  October 28, 2014
  If Playmarket can’t be added easily this will be major problem for buyers.
- ferdi
  October 29, 2014
  where its it available to purchase now?
  - wsamland
    October 29, 2014
    I don’t know where you could get it overseas. In China is is available via Yixun and probably on JD as well
Blade
October 28, 2014
I own f1 and i’m not sure I’ll be changing it with this one – I was hoping for FHD screen

Guest
October 28, 2014
I got one last week. It has decent performances, although the Cool UI OS can be annoying as it is clearly aimed at chinese users. Google play does not load properly, but apps can easily be sideloaded via the file manager. Battery life has been pretty good so far, much better than my iNew v3. International users may want to note that my copy only has options for English and Mandarin, no other languages.
- Riccardo Benzoni
  October 28, 2014
  how does this processor compares to mt6592? Is the performance gap huge? Right now I’m pretty satisfied with Coolpad F1, and from what I’ve seen this Snap615 (which isn’t krait, but arm) doesn’t seem a huge update in comparison, at least not worthy if you come from the mt6592! What do you think about it?
  The coolui is only english and chinese, there is no official multilanguage for it, as you said it’s aimed at chinese market, but if this phone is supported as the F1, custom rom will arrive soon!
- Chavdar Ivanov Chavdarov
  October 28, 2014
  If Playmarket can’t be added easily this will be major problem for buyers.
- wsamland
  October 29, 2014
  F1 seems to have decent ROM support, so fingers crossed that one will come out for the F2 pretty soon. CoolUi is not terrible and some of the chinese apps are surprisingly decent, but I generally prefer vanilla android over other versions. It is based on 4.4.2 at least I dunno about how it compares speed-wise to mt6592, but it is noticeably smoother than the inew v3 that it replaced. Much better battery life as well.
- ferdi
  October 30, 2014
  where its it available to purchase now?
- wsamland
  October 30, 2014
  I don’t know where you could get it overseas. In China is is available via Yixun and probably on JD as well
- Guest
  November 2, 2014
  Hi, what score with antutu benchmark? The external sound it’s louder? Can you switch the data signal on 36 or 4G on two sim? Which band FD LTE have?
  Thank You
- Guest
  November 2, 2014
  Hi, what score with antutu benchmark? The external sound it’s louder? Can you switch the data signal on 36 or 4G on two sim? Which band FD LTE have?
  Thank You
Don Rogers
October 31, 2014
You can buy this on Ali Express but not all sellers seem to be legitimate one seller has this updated Coolpad f2 with Snapdragon 615 SOC for $99.00. Well you know the saying “If it looks too good to be true” then it probably is too good to be true. Other sellers have it on sale for around $200.00. Not sure about which FDD-LTE bands are supported on this phone ?

Don Rogers
October 31, 2014
You can buy this on Ali Express but not all sellers seem to be legitimate one seller has this updated Coolpad f2 with Snapdragon 615 SOC for $99.00. Well you know the saying “If it looks too good to be true” then it probably is too good to be true. Other sellers have it on sale for around $200.00. Not sure about which FDD-LTE bands are supported on this phone ?

kranti
January 2, 2015
In india this mobile is rebranded by micromex and launch it with name yureka mobile with cyanogan mod rom support
kranti
January 2, 2015
In india this mobile is rebranded by micromex and launch it with name yureka mobile with cyanogan mod rom support

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