Kathmandu Coolpad Cool1 Dual, the product that came to life with the joint venture of Coolpad and LeEco, is now available for purchase in Nepal. Here’s our detailed review of this phone that is priced at Rs 30,996. Build The Coolpad Cool1 Dual is a metal build phone that has a typical LeEco phone design. The Chamfered edges make the device look classy but the absence of 2.5D glass is felt every so often. Other than that, this 8.2mm thick phone that weighs 167grams feels sturdy while holding. It has capacitive buttons on the chin that are backlit. On the bottom edge is the USB Type-C port for charging in the middle of the speaker and the mic. On the right, are the volume rockers and power buttons. On top, you can find the 3.5mm headphone jack alongside the IR sensor. Dual cameras and fingerprint sensor are placed on the back of the phone. The fingerprint sensor is a bit shiny that makes the smudges look noticeable more than ever. Display The phone has a 5.5-inch IPS LCD display with the resolution of 1920*1080 pixels. The display with 450nits brightness and 72 per cent NTSC colour gamut is nothing to complain about considering the price except for those thick bezels around it. The colour reproduction and viewing angles are satisfactory. The outdoor performance of the display was nothing too exciting or too disappointing. Performance As someone’s daily driver, this phone is an impressive performer since it is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 Octacore processor backed by Adreno 510GPU. This processor has four powerful Cortex A72 cores and four power efficient cortex A53 cores. Not just the processor but inclusion of 4GB LPDDR3 RAM has made this device run without a hitch even while heavy multitasking and gaming. The phone doesn’t heat much but occasional warmth can be felt near the camera module. Coming to the storage, it has 32GB non-expandable storage which might happen to be deficient in the long run. Camera As the name suggests, the Coolpad Cool1 Dual has a dual camera lens of 13MP each on its back accompanied by dual tone LED flash. One is an RGB sensor and the other is a b/w sensor. These two lenses work together to give better quality photos and aid in faster focusing as well. The camera app has an SLR mode that lets you capture portraits with bokeh effect. Most of the time, the photos come out decent. But under low light conditions, there are noticeable grains but the flash doesn’t help much as it over-exposes the subject. The rear camera is capable of shooting 4k videos at 30fps. But the videos taken handheld come out a little shaky since it has neither optical nor electronic stabilisation. On the front, it has 8MP 80-degree wide angle lens that takes decent selfies under good lighting condition. But selfies taken on artificial lights seem to have lots of grains in them. Selfie videos can be taken at Full HD resolution. Software This mobile boots on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with EUI 5.8 layered on top. So, it has the doze mode and supports Google Now on tap. If you haven’t used a LeEco phone before the UI might look a little strange to you. This is a heavily skinned and customised UI. Battery This phone has a humongous 4060mAh battery that will easily last for a full day or beyond even in heavy usage. It even supports fast charging and the 10W charging brick comes with the phone itself. Verdict This dual Nano SIM phone that comes with all the essential sensors we look forward to having on a phone is pretty impressive. The best part is its powerful processing, promising cameras, awesome battery life and more than enough RAM. This phone would have been the best buy if it had 64GB storage or a microSD card slot or a hybrid SIM tray. The non-expandable storage is the only con of this phone. Overall score Build: 4.2/5 Display: 4.3/5 Performance: 4.7/5 Camera: 4.8/5 Software: 4.1/5 Battery: 4.7/5 Overall score: 4.5/5 The author is a content writer at Gadgetbyte Nepal. Talking about gadgets he loves, he wants to have it all provided that they have to be either trending ones or newly released