Like all the variants of Note 3, Coolpad Max is trying its best to prove to be a premium smartphone. What are the features of coolpad Max smartphones coming in the beautiful box with metal body, curved-ease glass, spectacular specification and accessory? Today we will review this new smartphone of coolpad.
Look and design
Coolpad Max comes in a beautiful box printed from golden letters. Sliding the box, but you can remove this phone from its tray. Below this you will find accessories in many black boxes. With the phone you will get a quick-charge support charger, a flat USB cable, a wired headset, a plastic case, a screen protector and a SIM Ejector PIN. The phone has been introduced with the box in such a way that customers should be attracted and take it home as a premium smartphone.
The impact of the recently introduced Apple and HTC smartphones in this device of coolpad can be clearly seen. Our review unit was Royal Gold color. Apart from this, this phone is also available in Rose Gold color variants. But its natural gray variants have not been launched in India, which may cause some customers disappointed. This design is being used nowadays in most Android smartphones at low -priced Android smartphones. The next part of the phone has a gorilla glass 4 for safety. The glass is quite reflex and every time the phone moves on the side of the phone, which can be a bit disturbing. Above the screen is the earpiece grill, front camera and sensor window while the bottom space is empty. The navigation button is onscreen.
On the right side of the phone has a papar button and hybrid SIM/MicroSD tray. The phone will have to choose one SIM and one SIM or MicroSD card. Volume buttons are given on the left side. At the top is the 3.5mm audio shock and at the bottom is a micro-USB port surrounded by two grills. Of which there is only one speaker.
The rear panel of the phone is made of matte metal which gives a good feeling but it is affixed to a large white sticker on which the regulator information is given. Our review unit was turned, which spoiled the entire look of the phone. A round fingerprint sensor is given above the sticker, around which there is a shiny ring. The rear has a camera on the top right side with a two-tone flash on one side and a hole for the mic on the other side.
It is very convenient to catch the phone, although the edges could be improved by making it a little more round. The phone is slightly heavy and weighs 170 grams. The rear of the phone is slightly slipper. With the plastic protective case, we found it very better to catch the phone. Overall, Coolpad Max is definitely a smartphone with a premium look but not the most attractive phone to come at this price.
Specification
Coolpad Max is also called Coolpad A8. This phone is available in different countries with different hardware. Our Review Unit was a variant launched in India with a 1.5 GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor, 4 GB RAM and 64 GB of internal storage. At this price, the processor can be called a little weak but storage and RAM are better than expected.
The phone has a 5.5 -inch screen with 1080×1920 pixels resolution, which is good according to this price phone these days. Coolpad Max has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone flash and phase-detection autofocus. The front camera is 5 megapixels. Both cameras can record up to 1080 pixels. The phone has a 2800 mAh battery which is non-removable. Battery supports Qualcomm’s Qual Charge 3.0 technology and the company promises that up to 3 hours of talk time can be found from the phone in 5 minutes of charging.
The phone provides Indian band 3 and 40 LTE support on both SIMs. Wi-Fi AC, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS, FM radio and USB OTG have been provided for connectivity. Only 64 GB storage can be increased with microSD card in the phone. The NFC and infrared support found in the second phone are not in Coolpad Max.
Overall, coolpad Max has strong specifications except the processor. The processor given in Coolpad Max is being given in a low price phone today. This phone of coolpad can give a tough competition to the more than Rs 40,000, the more than Rs 40,000, the flagship smartphone. Coolpad is full hopes that Max’s software will attract feach, texture and design customers. However, if you are looking for 4K video recording and 3D game feature, then you have to find another option for that.
Software
Cool UI of Coolpad above Android 5.1 Lollipop can be quite well customized. There are some very good features in it and some strange features have also been given. Initially the default skin is completely based on sepia-tone which is very similar to the gold body but it makes it very difficult to identify the app icon. We did not like this look of the phone and had to go to the theme app to get much better. All app icons and wizuts are given under the homescreen and like the second device of the coolpad, this phone does not have any ‘traditional mode’ with the app drawer. Apart from this, there are some confusing text labels due to translation from Chinese to English.
The phone’s dialer, contact list and messaging Fern with a tab interface have been merged in a single app. This is not a big problem, but it is a bit strange to use for the first time. The phone default keyboard TouchPal 2015 has been given which has all the preset Fraz, a full-screen mode and an optional T9 layout. Apart from this, Google’s Hindi/Hinglish keyboard will also be available.
There are also some pre-install apps in the phone. Work can be done such as vacating RAM from the cool manager, detection of data usage, monitoring power consumption and app permits twice. Apart from this, select collar can also be blocked. You can lock the app from the fingerprint and search the Autorized Service Center from the Map with an app called Cool Service.
The setting app has some other small fun features. By enabling split-screen mode, you can run one app in two independent frames. Apart from this, the color and layout of the onscreen navigation button can also be changed. If you feel that the screen is far away from your finger to reach at one time, then you can enable the floating button that leads to a circular menu which provides many control options. Zen mode has a ‘do not disturb’ feature schedule that can be removed for the necessary contacts or alerts.
One thing that bothers a little is that you cannot easily protect private things from an passcode or fingerprint. The space management section of the setting app is protected and you can hide the dock icon and quick setting bar. After this, you can register your fingerprint by going to the fingerprint management app.
Talk about Samsung, Blackberry and Nokia, they have used such features to keep the user work and personal data forward. It seems that this feature implemented by coolpad has been brought for more private data security than corporate data security. This feature is based on the secure space of graphite software developer. But it does not include all the features.
Performance
Coolpad Max mostly responds brilliantly but it becomes very hot when used for a long time. Even after normal use, the phone starts to heat up after some time. Everything goes on in a spectacular way in the phone but does not seem convenient to catch the phone while playing the game. Apart from this, the phone works better everywhere.
The screen of the phone is sharp and shiny and the color looks very effective. The game and movie can be enjoyed better except the reflection of the screen. For simple use, the speaker is quite loud and the headset (which looks like Apple’s earpod) can be said to be right according to the music.
The fingerprint reader in the phone works quite fast but every time it does not respond to the right. It works for a second time more than the first time. Switching between the spactions takes about 10 seconds and the company that has licensed the coolpad says that it has a little impact on the performance. With private space, we did not see any special difference in the performance of the phone.
In the benchmarking test, we got a good data from the phone. The graphics score was slightly weak. Apart from this, figures were found equal to the recently launched low -priced Lenovo Zook Z1 (Review) and Moto G4 Plus (Review).
Coolpad Max’s camera is very good, women are clean and without noys. Along with this, texture is also good. Field effects in close-up shot also come with depth. But there is trouble while locking the focus, which also brought pictures taken in good light. Good pictures can be taken from the phone even in low light. But there is also a problem of lewdness of photographs here. The video recorded at 1080 pixels is fine but looks a little bit.
In our video loop test, the phone battery supported for 8 hours 41 minutes. During general use, we were able to run the phone for a day and the quick charge feature is very useful. You do not need to charge the phone throughout the day and in just a few minutes the entire phone is charged.
Our decision
Coolpad definitely wants to strengthen its penetration in India. Coolpad Max is a good phone but it is very hot and its high price is a big problem. Perhaps the price of the phone is high due to private space features and design.
Private space feature is good but the phone does not have a separate privacy solution so that when IT administrator manages sensitive information and policy in your office, you can manage your personal data.
Talking about the feature, in this phone you get better features than this price Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) (Review). The biggest problem is that you get the same feature in other low -cost phones even if their look is not premium. If you want to spend great features and good money, then you can choose Coolpad Max but if you feel that you can live without a unique feature of Coolpad Max, then you can save your little money.