Coolpad Cool Play At Rs 14,999, this has a dual rear camera

Coolpad is known for pricing its smartphones aggressively in India. The Chinese handset maker plays in the budget and mid-budget segment in India, which is certainly dominated by the likes of Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo. Hoping to boost sales in festive season in India, Coolpad unveiled its latest smartphones called Cool Play 6 in Dubai, and it comes with dual rear cameras.

Coolpad Cool Play 6 is being touted as the ultimate gaming device thanks to 6GB RAM and 4,060mAh of battery. The Cool Play 6 is comes at Rs 14,999 and open sale for the device begins September 4 exclusively on Amazon. We spent some time with Coolpad Cool Play 6 at the launch event and here’s our first impression.

Coolpad Cool Play 6 Design and Display

Coolpad Cool Play sports a metal unibody design, which looks stylish. The back houses vertically-aligned dual rear cameras in the centre with dual LED flash placed on the right of the camera lenses. Fingerprint scanner comes right below the dual camera setup.

There’s power button and volume rocker keys on the right. Antenna bands are visible on top and bottom of the back cover. Cool Play 6 uses a USB Type-C port for charging and a 3.5 mm headset jack has been placed on top. Overall, Cool Play 6 looks great in terms of design and the build quality is quite nice.

Coolpad Cool Play 6 isn’t too slippery, which makes it really easy to use even without a cover. Of course, a cover is always recommended for extra protection. The front has thick bezels on top and bottom, which seamlessly integrate with the edges and rear of the smartphone. There are no back-lit capacitive keys and I was a little bit disappointed by the lack of it, especially while using the phone at night.

Coolpad Cool Play 6 features a 5.5-inch Full HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The screen is good to look at and icons appear sharp. However, I had to really turn the brightness levels to maximum while using the phone in bright sunlight. I opened the camera app to click pictures on a hot afternoon in Dubai and had to really struggle to look at what I was clicking.

Coolpad Cool Play 6 gets dual rear cameras (13MP+13MP) cameras at the back, where one lens is monochrome, while the other can capture pictures in RGB. We got a chance to tinker around with Cool Play’s camera in length and it does a pretty good job of clicking photos. The results are detailed, and sharp pictures along with great colour reproduction. Coolpad Cool Play 6 offers a Night mode for the rear camera to click pictures in places where there’s lack of ample light. I used the mode inside a museum and frankly, the pictures turned out to be really impressive considering the price.

Coming the the bokeh mode, it is quite nice to shoot pictures where you want the subject to be on focus. Of course, it would be unfair to expect Apple iPhone 7 Plusstandard on a Rs 15,000 phone.  However, the images clicked in night mode as well as ‘bokeh’ mode take a lot of time to render. I had problems getting the phone to focus in low light.