Coolpad have unveiled their newest in the Coolpad Note 5, a phone that’s designed to take on the like of the Redmi Note 3, et al. The Coolpad Note 5 costs only 10,999 INR or $165, and despite that features some high-end internals… including 4GB of RAM.
The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 617 processor, the same SoC that powered the Coolpad Max. With that, it has 4GB of RAM, making it, as per our knowledge, the cheapest 4GB RAM phone in the market as of now. It’s a shame it’s only on sale in India so far.
Other specs of the phone include a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080p display, a 13 mega-pixel rear camera, 8 mega-pixel front facing camera, a 4010mAh battery, 32GB on-board ROM (with microSD slot) and an installation of Android 6.0 (with Cool 8 UI on top).
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Coolpad Note 5 Specifications
- 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080p display
- Snapdragon 617 processor
- 4GB RAM
- 32GB ROM
- 4010mAh battery
- 13 mega-pixel rear camera
- 8 mega-pixel front camera
- Android 6.0 based Cool 8 UI
The phone comes with the same old design that we’ve been seeing since the launch of the Meizu MX5. Not sure if companies are afraid to experiment, but the mid-range market is soon going to get bored of this design.
I think lately every phone looks the same. I used to change phone every 2-3 months but now…. there is no reason. And the specs (cpu etc) are just fine.
CPU doesn’t matter anyhow.
GPU matters more (in games) and RAM (in app launches).
So yeah specs change pretty rapidly. For example this year’s phones are multiple times faster than from 2 years ago, mostly because a lot of them has eliminated loading (due to Ram retention)
However speed is not everything. Battery has actually gone down lately (no removable batts anymore), charging time too (again, no capacity to swap batteries), durability (metal phones dent more easily and glass phones break). IR and FM is eliminated from most places.
So there are multiple reasons to not “upgrade” (you lose stuff), but speed is not one of them. I find the speed updates of the last two years the most significant jump in performance in phone history.