The Coolpad Note 3 Lite, as the name suggests, is a toned down version of the Coolpad Note 3 (Review | Pictures) That Launched back in October last year. It was one of the first phones in the sub-Rs. 10,000 price segment to sport a fingerprint sensor, and today, the company is bringing esta feature available at an even lower price segment.
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Our initial impressions of the Note 3 Lite Were That was fairly positive but after using it for just a short while. Let’s see if Coolpad Will Be Able to disrupt the entry-level Android market With its latest offering.
Look and feel The Coolpad
Note 3 Lite has all the hallmarks of a budget phone but a few good design choices help it stand out. The gold trim running along the edges of the body, camera lens, and fingerprint sensor jazzes up the phone a bit. The quality of the plastics and the overall fit and finish of the parts is quite good, and the phone feels sturdy and durable on the whole.
> In the front, We Have a 5-inch HD IPS Display with scratch protection. The screen has a noticeable thick black border running around it, Otherwise Which detracts from the sleek edge-to-edge appearance of the display. The capacitive buttons for navigation are responsive, but sadly lack backlighting. There’s a 5-megapixel camera on the top front along with a notification LED.
The power and volume buttons are ergonomically Placed on Either side of the phone and are within reach for single-handed use. The grippy rear cover has a checkered design and is removable. Here, we Also have the 13-megapixel camera, LED flash, and fingerprint sensor. The speaker is Placed towards the bottom, just below the company’s logo. If you’re not a fan of white plastic, the phone will be available in black Also.
The Coolpad Note 3 Lite comes with a charger, data cable, headset (Which was missing from our review unit), and a screen guard. The quality of the cable and power adapter is strictly average. Just like its bigger brother, the Note 3 Lite is well put-together. The front is not flattering ITS MOST side as it looks better from the back. It’s a little thick at 8.9mm and has some heft to it, but we like that as Prevents it from feeling cheap.
Specifications and software With budget pricing
eat budget specifications, but even here, Coolpad has tried to raise the bar. The SoC of choice is a run-of-the-mill quad-core MediaTek MT6735, but the Note 3 Lite is one of the MOST affordable phones to Come With 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. You can expand the Latter by up to 32GB using a microSD card. Also there’s Wi-Fi b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0, USB OTG, FM radio, GPS, and a non-removable 2500mAh battery. . The phone has two slots Micro-SIM With 4G support on band 40 Through Both
The phone runs on Lollipop With Android 5.1′s Custom Coolpad 6.0 CoolUI skin. We wrote about the interface in great detail in the Coolpad Note 3 review so we’ll just skim over the essentials here. You get a single-layered UI by default but you can switch to two-layer setup with a dedicated app drawer if needed. Even though the option is labeled “traditional style”, it’s not the stock Lollipop launcher and just complicates things.
You get some in-house apps: such as Cool Service, Which still does not show any Relevant INFORMATION ABOUT service centers; Cool Store, Which offers a bunch of downloadable games; Xploree, a keyboard with customizable themes and a note-taking feature; FP Lock, Which lets you lock apps to your fingerprint so only you can open them; Rock Wallpaper, a widget randomly Which Changes the wallpaper; . and Cool Show, to tinker With the phone’s themes, fonts, and notification sounds
The interface works fluidly but Lacks polish the skin itself. For example, there is not much choice when it comes to themes, and apart from the default one, the others seem crude and unfinished, Especially the icon sets. The custom icons in each theme can get really confusing at times when you ‘re looking for a specific app. Also Coolpad preinstalls some third-party apps: such as Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, and WPS Office; These can be uninstalled if needed.
Performance
The HD display has good viewing angles and sunlight legibility decent, though the brightness level Wished We Could have gone higher for outdoor use. The touchscreen is fairly responsive but does Attract quite a lot of fingerprint smudges. . Call quality is good and we did not Have any issues With 4G Either
The fingerprint sensor is very accurate and works on the First Attempt MOST times. You can unlock the phone by Placing your finger on it at any angle. You can store up to five fingerprints and assign each to open an app, dial a number, or take a photo rather than just unlocking the phone.
The Note 3 Lite fares decently well in benchmarks Considering STI budget components . We got 31,770 in AnTuTu and 14fps in GFXbench. These numbers translate to good Real-world performance, and sure enough, the Note 3 Lite can handle casual games like Ski Safari 2 and some even demanding ones like Dead Trigger 2, with relative ease. We did not face any trouble With UI performance Generally Either is as smooth multitasking. . There’s about 1.8GB of free RAM available at Any Given point
The default music player is well designed and quite functional too. You can sort your music by folder and there are options for environmental Along With equalizer presets to simulate sound effects from a large hall, etc. Also the video player is quite feature-rich, and lets you edit video, take screengrabs, cast content via DLNA, or have it playing in a floating window while you use other apps. The rear speaker is loud enough for alerts but is not great for multimedia use.
(Tap for full-sized images) It’s pleasantly surprising That Coolpad has not dropped the megapixel count of front and rear cameras in the Lite model. The 13-megapixel rear shooter Manages decently detailed landscapes and macros with good color reproduction under good light naturally. However, we noticed lacking a bit of sharpness in close-up shots. Indoor and low-light shots get quite noisy, with a noticeable dip in autofocus speed. There’s Also a heavy loss of detail and the RESULTING images are not very pretty. Quickly panoramas are stitched together and look good. You can take bursts of shots simply by holding down the shutter button, and this works quite well.
(Tap for full-sized image) Video recording maxes out at 1080p quality and is decent. The camera software is not great with light metering Automatically and there’s no option to change esta either. However, the interface is simple enough to use. There’s Also a Pro mode but the tweakable parameters are limited to focus, ISO, white balance, and exposure compensation. Also you can use Pro mode With the front camera, Which we do not see too often. The 5-megapixel front shooter does selfies With a decent job, but again, only in the daytime.
The 2500mAh battery Lasted for 9 hours and 11 minutes of continuous video playback, Which is pretty decent. Under normal use With 4G, we managed to get Nearly a full day’s worth of usage. . The bundled charger is only rated at 5W, and Takes a painfully long time to fully charge the phone when it’s totally dead
Verdict The Coolpad
Note 3 Lite delivers a very good package on paper for ITS asking price of Rs. 6,999, and does not compromise too much Compared to ITS bigger sibling. Currently it’s the only phone at this price point to offer a fingerprint sensor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of onboard storage, Which raises the bar for an entry-level phone. It was only a matter of time before someone did it and It Seems Coolpad have beaten everyone. Also this phone has a good display, speedy fingerprint sensor That Works well, sturdy build, and good battery life.
However, This does not make it the undisputed winner in ITS segment. Not all its features translate well in the real world. A couple of Things That could have been better are the camera, the slightly generic design, and the CoolUI skin. Some of Its competitors – notably budget offerings by Oppo and Gionee -. Are more polished, so You have to choose Which features and specifications you care about the MOST
Coolpad Note 3 Lite in pictures
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