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Coolpad Cool S1 Changer Hands On Overview, Expected India Launch And Price.

Finally, Coolpad Cool S1 Changer has made its way outside of China. The company has launched Coolpad Cool S1 Changer at MWC 2017. This smartphone was launched in China last year in December. This is a flagship phone from Coolpad and is powered by the snapdragon 821 chip-set and come with a 4070mAh battery. It comes with a very good build with a metal uni-body which gives it a premium look & feel. The Cool S1 Changer also will be launched in India very soon by March or April.

 

Coolpad Cool S1 Changer Specifications

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Physical Overview

Coolpad Cool S1 Changer comes with a really premium build and design. The device carry a metal unibody design with chamfered edges. The edges are curved hence making the device very comfortable to hold. It sports a 5.5 inch full-HD display on the front with touch capacitive buttons on the bottom. Back has got a 16 MP rear camera with LED flash and fingerprint sensor.

 

Above the display, you will find an 8 MP front camera and earpiece.

Below the display, you will find three touch capacitive navigation buttons.

The right side of the S1 Changer has the volume up, volume down and the power button.

The back houses a 16 MP rear camera, a dual tone LED flash and a fingerprint sensor which is situated below the camera.

Bottom part has got a primary mic, a USB Type-C port and speaker.

Display

Coolpad Cool S1 Changer comes with a 5.5 inch LCD IPS display. The display has got a full-HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) and a pixel density of ~401ppi. The display has got 73.7% of screen to body ratio. The bezels on this device is also quite minimal on the sides which makes the display look good.

Hardware

Coolpad Cool S1 Changer is powered by a high end Snapdragon 821 chip-set with Adreno 530 GPU. It comes with an quad-core processor with two cores clocked at 2.35GHz and two cores clocked at  1.6GHz.

It comes with either 4GB RAM & 64GB internal storage or 6GB RAM & 128GB internal storage options. Memory is expandable on both variants up-to 128GB via hybrid card slot.

Camera Overview

Coolpad Cool S1 Changer

 

Coolpad Cool S1 Changer sports a 16 MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, auto-focus, and dual tone LED flash. The rear camera is capable of shooting videos up-to 4K resolution. The front has got a 8 MP fixed focus camera which captures pretty decent selfies.

Pricing and Availability

As for the pricing of the Coolpad Cool S1 Changer, the company revealed that the 6GB + 64GB version will cost 369 Euros, which translates to roughly Rs. 26,000 or about $390. The 6GB + 128GB version has been priced at 469 Euros, which is roughly Rs. 33,150 or $500.

Conclusion

This device has got a pretty high end specification with a very premium build & design. This device offers  lots of good things like Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC, 4GB/6GB RAM, 64GB/128GB of storage, 4,070mAh battery, and a good set of cameras which makes it a really good smartphone. The only let down we got to see is the Android Marshmallow which is kind of old considering that every device these days is being launched with Android Nougat. However the pricing is the main factor which will decide that how good value for money this device is. This device will be launched in India very soon.

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Abhishek Bhatnagar

Abhishek Bhatnagar, a known technology blogger & YouTuber from India. A Software Engineer by qualification, now he works as the editor-In-Chief, Webmaster, & Managing Director at Gadgets To Use. He runs a number of other technology websites as well.