Coolpad released an oddball phone - the Conjr. It’s
a US$ 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.
The Conjr has a
quad-core processor (Cortex-A53) clocked at a mere 1GHz. 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 2,500 mAh battery.
There’s no word on launch date yet, but the phone
will work with GSM carriers in the US (AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular) and
there should be a Gold version later on.
