Coolpad just announced its newest budget smartphone called Coolpad Conjr with high-end specs at a reasonable price. Take a closer look and decide if this is the phone for you.

Coolpad Conjr: Real beast with a twist

Coolpad celebrates the New Year with its newest budget smartphone, the Conjr. Featuring a metal body with 2.5D glass on the front and a 5″ LCD HD screen, the phone resemble its long distance cousin, the Lenovo K6. In general, the phone has a beautiful design and gives a premium feeling, promising to be a heavy contender for 2017 affordable smartphones. However, despite its good look and aluminum unibody design, the phone has one small issue when it comes to specs.

In term of Coolpad Conjr specs, it sports 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, expandable through the microSD slot. The rear camera has a 13MP sensor, while the front has an 8MP sensor. Both comes with LED flash and f/2.2 aperture. However, the Coolpad Conjr only use a Cortex-A53 quad-core processor clocked at a low 1GHz. The Mali-T720MP2 GPU which comes along with the CPU won’t be suitable for running most 3D games, but it should be enough to handle 2D gaming experience.

Other features include a 2,500mAh non-removable battery with up to 9 hours of talk time using 3G. The phone also has LTE connection (150Mbps) and 2x NanoSIM slots. However, the second slot is a hybrid and can be used to insert the microSD card. Luckily enough, Coolpad decided to include a 3.5mm audio jack on the top and a microUSB 2.0 port on the bottom.

Coolpad Conjr: price and availability

Coolpad Conjr release date has not been confirmed by the brand yet. However, the phone will come in either gold or gray color when it’s released. As for Coolpad Conjr price, it will cost less than $200 ~ RM. 13,636, preferably at $180 ~ RM. 12,273. What do you think about the Coolpad Conjr? Would you buy this phone when it is available in your country?