Coolpad R108 – Affordable Smartphone with 3GB RAM – Review, Specs and Price

Coolpad R108 is perfect for those on a budget, the smartphone is available at a giveaway price on Shopping stores. This device has an octa-core processor, boasts of 3GB RAM and 32GB storage space.

Coolpad are known for making the most affordable smartphone with great value for money, but the R108 knocks it out of the park. Do you want to know more about the Coolpad R108? Stay with me.

Design

Coolpad R108

Made completely from Aluminium Alloy and sports a shining overall body. The R108 doesn’t look like your budget smartphone. The rear camera is at the top middle with a LED flash right beside it, while the fingerprint scanner is under the camera.

Underneath the Coolpad logo at the bottom corner is a loudspeaker for extremely loud music and bass. Turning over to the sides, it measures 8.7 mm in thickness and weighs just 165g overall. Weighing that less, the R108 will be easy to operate with one hand. In terms of coloring, the Coolpad R108 is available in Gold and White colors.

Display

It’s bezel-less, well to a point, reaching 70% screen to body ratio. It has no narrow bezels at all, the screen can be seen from the sides. The bottom bezels houses three navigation buttons, while the top houses the selfie camera, ambient light sensor and speaker grille.

Focusing on the screen now, the 5.5-inch IPS touchscreen displays like a budget smartphone it is. Nevertheless, when on landscape mode, the details should be longer, because there’s no narrow bezel. The screen boasts of 1280 x 720 pixels in resolution and 267 pixel per inch density.

Hardware and Software

Working underneath is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 with 64-bit CPU architecture and 8-cores of processor. The Octa-core processor on the Coolpad R108 reaches a clock speed of 1.5 GHz with 28nm process technology. Handling graphics is the Qualcomm Adreno 405 graphics processor.

Multitask through heavy apps with 3GB of RAM and a memory speed of 667 MHz for fast multitasking. For storage, the 32GB should be enough, but if it isn’t, simply top-up another 32GB using a memory card. The Coolpad R108 runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with modified user interface.

Camera

At the back, the 13MP rear camera has f/2.2 aperture and captures 4K resolution images. That’s not all, the camera comes with a LED flash and other quality features capturing photographs with 4160 x 3120 pixels in dimension. For selfies, there’s a 5MP selfie shooter at the front with f/2.2 aperture as well for cute selfies.

Battery

Powering the Coolpad R108 is a 2500mAh non-removable Li-Ion battery with no fast charging technology. Even without the fast charging feature, it shouldn’t take more than 2.2 hours to fully charge up the battery from 0% to 100%.

 

Coolpad R108 Full Technical Specifications

General

Device Type Smartphone
Model Coolpad R108
Announced March, 2017
Released April, 2017
Status Available on Shopping stores

Network

2G Network Yes
3G Network Yes
4G Network Yes
SIM Type

Nano + Nano

SIM Count Dual SIM

Design

Type Aluminium Alloy
Dimensions 76.5 x 154.5 x 8.7 mm
Weight 165g
Protection Yes
Colours White, Gold

Display

Display Type IPS capacitive touchscreen
Size 5.5-inch
Resolution 1280 x 720 Pixels
Colors 16M colors
Pixel Density 267ppi
Screen-To-Body Ratio 70%
Touch Screen Yes
Protection 2.5D Glass
Features Multi-touch
Secondary Display No

Camera

13MP
Yes
Yes
Autofocus 
Continuous shooting 
Digital zoom 
Exposure compensation 
Face detection 
Geotagging 
HDR 
ISO settings 
Panorama 
Scene mode 
Self-timer 
Touch focus 
White balance settings
No
5MP

Software

Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Modified
Yes
Skype Yes
Whatsapp Yes
Facebook Yes
Youtube Yes

Hardware

Qualcomm Snapdragon 415
CPU Octa-Core 1.4GHz
GPU Qualcomm Adreno 405
3GB
Internal Storage 32GB
Yes, up to 32GB

Fingerprint (Rear)
Proximity
Accelerometer
Ambient Light

Controls Touchscreen, Lock Button, and Volume Key

Connectivity

Yes
Infrared No
Wi-Fi Yes
Wi-fi Hotspot Yes
USB Type Yes, microUSB
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC
HDMI
Facial Recognition No
No

Battery

Battery Type Li-Ion Battery
Capacity 2500mAh
Placement Non-removable
Fast Charging No
Standby
Talk Time
Music Play

Media

Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC
Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player
Vibration, Ringtones
MP3, WAV
Yes

Yes

Other Features

– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
– DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player
– Photo/video editor
– Document viewer

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2 thoughts on “Coolpad R108 – Affordable Smartphone with 3GB RAM – Review, Specs and Price”

  1. Great phone but Coolpad has Backdoor. Coolreaper preinstalled on system apps and can not be removed without root.

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