Zopo is back just in time for Christmas with the recently launched Zopo
P5000. Zopo is still about and yes they do have a
new range of smartphones, possibly the best smartphones ever to ship with the
Zopo name stamp on the back.
Zopo has sent me the Zopo P5000, their latest
flagship phone which comes with all the hardware features that we come to
expect from top of the range phones of today, plus a few nice features that
actually push the P5000 in front of certain other phones on the market.
Zopo P5000 is bang right up to date with a 5.99-inch
HD+ 18:9 Full-Screen display. This is pretty big news for Zopo, but the
hardware highlights don’t end there. Above that full display screen, you’ll find a 16
megapixel Samsung SP3 f2.0 camera with soft LED flash. The rear has dual lens
camera is made up of a 13 megapixel and 5 megapixel Sony IMX258 f2.0 sensor and
beneath the attractive metal body is a huge 5000mAh battery.
With a huge battery, the P5000 is slightly thicker
than similar metal bodied phones, but less time on charge is more important to
most users than the physical size of the phones. Sticking with modern trends,
the P5000 uses a Type C USB 2.0 for charging and data transfer, which might not
be as desirable as a faster connection but at least it’s more future-proof than
a standard USB which we’re still seeing on some phones.
As the Zopo P5000 has a full-display screen and a
85% screen coverage up front, the fingerprint scanner has had to be moved to
the rear of the phone just below the dual camera lens. The fingerprint scanner
lens is a little smaller than some brands, but so far it has proven to be fast
and accurate.
Zopo has shipped
the P5000 with a largely stock installation of Android 7.0 and that the phone
comes with Google Services and the Google Store all installed and working as
they should out of the box.
The stock Android installation runs smoothly thanks
to 4GB Samsung DDR3 RAM and Mediatek Helio P10 1.5Ghz octacore chipset, not the
most modern processor but it’s powerful enough for most uses and supports most
common LTE networks too.
Other details include 64GB Samsung internal memory,
space for a micro SD card and dual nano SIM slots. For those of you who can’t
wait for the full review and need to get their hands on the Zopo P5000 now,
Zopo is offering the phone direct on their official web store for just US$ 269.00.
