My Impressions of the Coolpad 4: A Closer Look

I have ran on this now. Geekbench 3 has now become Geekbench 4 and they have adjusted this scale of thing so it doesn't have schools that I can relate to anymore compared to other devices and they start benchmarking things side-by-side but that is the score there now, so you will see that has changed.

The scores are interesting. They put it almost on par with the Nvidia shield tablet's Tegra K1, which also features an octa-core processor with Adreno 510 graphics. The Slingshot's Icestorm unlimited score was a little low, and the reason for this is not entirely clear to me. It seems that even when maxed out, the entry-level score on I Storm was still relatively low. In contrast, the Snapdragon 650 scores around 76 or 78 thousand, which is very impressive.

This phone also performs well in PC Mark, with a screen calibrated to 200 nits of brightness. The battery life is phenomenal, especially considering this is a sub $200 mobile phone. I managed to get about 3 days of use out of it with medium to light use, and the continuous screen-on time was an impressive 10 hours and 30 minutes.

However, there are some drawbacks to this device. One thing that irritates me slightly is the size of the bezels around the outside of the screen. They're huge! I'm not sure why Coolpad and the Eco decided to make them so big. It's a shame, because the rest of the build quality feels good.

Another issue I have with this device is the camera. The 4K video capabilities are still limited to 24 frames per second, which should be improved to at least 30 FPS. Additionally, there were some artifacts when filming in continuous color modes, such as a blue sky with a white wall. It's clear that more software or firmware updates are needed to fix these issues.

The loudspeakers are also disappointing, lacking the oomph and depth I've come to expect from modern mobile devices. However, this may not be a deal-breaker for everyone.

Finally, there's an issue with charging. The stock charger took almost two and a half hours to fully charge the phone using a Qualcomm certified Quick Charge 3 charger. This is relatively slow, especially considering that it does support Quick Charge functionality.

To mitigate this, I recommend purchasing a Quick Charge charger from Qualcomm. This will significantly improve charging times, making it much more convenient.

In conclusion, my overall impressions of the Coolpad 4 are mixed. While there are some drawbacks to this device, such as the camera issues and slow charging times, the performance is generally good, with fast processing speeds and excellent core quality. The battery life is also a major plus, especially considering its affordable price tag. I look forward to releasing a full review of this device soon, which will delve deeper into its gaming performance and other features.

I'm excited to see how this phone performs in real-world use, and I hope that the aforementioned issues can be addressed through software updates or firmware patches. For now, it seems like the Coolpad 4 is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a solid mid-range mobile device at an affordable price.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Chris here back with a follow-up video now that I have been using the cool one dual here this is a Lear CO and cool pad mobile phone a joint venture of this things are going okay so far so in my unboxing and my first impressions of the camera that was my first impressions weren't that great but it actually can take a reasonable photo so I have been out in town and around doing very good lighting conditions because it's been midday so very nice lots of light and yes it can take a sharp 13 megapixel photo that isn't too bad now you get that depth of field effect as well when you select that s our last setting and it's not perfect if you'll notice that just around the edges of the glass there is a little bit there that actually doesn't have the background blurred out completely so I don't know whether it's using software software and hardware combined I imagine is probably the way they're doing that there so yes it for the price I think it can take an OK photo but just don't expect any miracles or flagship performance and perhaps it's what I was expecting but it's because they did hype this up a lot there were there was a video out there that was comparing other mobile phones for example like the iPhone 6 and I think was the Samsung s7 against this and it was showing that it was standing up against the competition but of course this video that I looked at it wasn't Chinese and you can never really trust them because they do just fake some of these comparison videos and they're probably from the manufacturer or the manufacturer paid someone to make this video to say I look look you know they're the cool one dual can take an amazing photo that's better than flagships are cost four times the amount of that so I also wanted to show you the benchmarks I have ran on this now Geekbench 3 has now become Geekbench 4 and they have adjusted this scale of thing so it doesn't have schools that I can relate to anymore compared to other devices and they start benchmarking things side-by-side but that is the score there now so you will see that has changed and it puts it almost the same as the Nvidia shield tablet now the the Tegra k1 the Qualcomm six five to that it has in there octa-core by the way with adreno 510 graphics so here's a Icestorm unlimited score slingshot now these scores to me were a little bit low they're not really too sure why that is I storm was maxed out the entry to score however low that's that's net dragon 65 - more or less kind of scores snapdragon 650 gets about 76 or 78 thousand and battery like so better loafers stacking up to be very good indeed this is on par with the show-me redmi 3 pro that i reviewed about six months ago that has the same capacity battery so it's full thousand milliamp hours and that is a very good score this is pc mark with the screen calibrated to 200 nits of brightness it's currently at 200 knots of brightness at the moment now - so that's just above halfway but if you can what you can see canyon the video that that brightness level is still quite good and that was with wireless of course activated so that gave me a screen on time of 10 hours and 30 minutes that's continuous screen on time running the pc mac test there so real life use I'm going to say that yeah I think medium to light use you're going to get about 3 days out of this so it has phenomenal battery life that is really good considering this is a sub 200 US mobile phone not bad at all not bad so so far my impressions are good one thing that does irritate bug me slightly is every time I use other mobile phones for example my me max is my typical daily driver at the moment but when I do have a look at the screen on this one it's just those bezels of black bezels on there around the outside of the screen I'm not too sure why cool pad and the Eco had to make those so big way can't they size them down they are literally the same size as what you see on the Li max 2 as well their flagship from the Eco there has a Snapdragon 820 and the Builder board of it is good again for the price not bad and the 4k video well it still as bad 4k video still has only 24 frames per second should be 30 I think it should be 30 at least people could say the arcade 24 cinematic but the focus is the problem the focus is still doing that focusing breathing things so it can't get focused locked properly it needs a software or firmware update to fix the correct that and there are some artifacts when you've got a continuous color for example blue sky blue see a white wall you see artifacts and the video but the build of it feels good now I do think just like my first impressions unboxing video that does border around the outside that I think is definitely plastic and the loudspeakers disappointing now charge time it took me almost two and a half hours using a qualcomm certified quick charge three charger so it's pretty slow to charge it fully and if you're going to use the standard charger I think you're looking close to about four hours so maybe three hours forty minutes to fully charge this using the supplied 5 volt 2 amp charger so very slow and why they concluded that charger the stock one and not a quick charge one apparently is because it hasn't been certified by Qualcomm they would have to have paid extra but yes it does support the quick charge function so we need to do is go up there and buy yourself a quick comm a Qualcomm right now welcome quick charge charger and then you'll be able to charge it faster than stock so I will be releasing a gaming review video because people want to see what the gaming performance is like on this so I'll give you I look at that it'll be an extended look because my review will only quickly cover the gaming on it but the full review should be out hopefully within about a week or so once I've had more time on with us but things are looking good so far my only complaints would be yeah the camera 4k the loudspeaker is not loud enough but battery life phenomenal performances good core quality also excellent not bad having any problems with it and the three point five minute headphone jack outputs good sound I can't really say too much about that but it it's fine it seems fine to me so we'll be back with a full review hopefully soon and I will see you then bye for nowhey guys Chris here back with a follow-up video now that I have been using the cool one dual here this is a Lear CO and cool pad mobile phone a joint venture of this things are going okay so far so in my unboxing and my first impressions of the camera that was my first impressions weren't that great but it actually can take a reasonable photo so I have been out in town and around doing very good lighting conditions because it's been midday so very nice lots of light and yes it can take a sharp 13 megapixel photo that isn't too bad now you get that depth of field effect as well when you select that s our last setting and it's not perfect if you'll notice that just around the edges of the glass there is a little bit there that actually doesn't have the background blurred out completely so I don't know whether it's using software software and hardware combined I imagine is probably the way they're doing that there so yes it for the price I think it can take an OK photo but just don't expect any miracles or flagship performance and perhaps it's what I was expecting but it's because they did hype this up a lot there were there was a video out there that was comparing other mobile phones for example like the iPhone 6 and I think was the Samsung s7 against this and it was showing that it was standing up against the competition but of course this video that I looked at it wasn't Chinese and you can never really trust them because they do just fake some of these comparison videos and they're probably from the manufacturer or the manufacturer paid someone to make this video to say I look look you know they're the cool one dual can take an amazing photo that's better than flagships are cost four times the amount of that so I also wanted to show you the benchmarks I have ran on this now Geekbench 3 has now become Geekbench 4 and they have adjusted this scale of thing so it doesn't have schools that I can relate to anymore compared to other devices and they start benchmarking things side-by-side but that is the score there now so you will see that has changed and it puts it almost the same as the Nvidia shield tablet now the the Tegra k1 the Qualcomm six five to that it has in there octa-core by the way with adreno 510 graphics so here's a Icestorm unlimited score slingshot now these scores to me were a little bit low they're not really too sure why that is I storm was maxed out the entry to score however low that's that's net dragon 65 - more or less kind of scores snapdragon 650 gets about 76 or 78 thousand and battery like so better loafers stacking up to be very good indeed this is on par with the show-me redmi 3 pro that i reviewed about six months ago that has the same capacity battery so it's full thousand milliamp hours and that is a very good score this is pc mark with the screen calibrated to 200 nits of brightness it's currently at 200 knots of brightness at the moment now - so that's just above halfway but if you can what you can see canyon the video that that brightness level is still quite good and that was with wireless of course activated so that gave me a screen on time of 10 hours and 30 minutes that's continuous screen on time running the pc mac test there so real life use I'm going to say that yeah I think medium to light use you're going to get about 3 days out of this so it has phenomenal battery life that is really good considering this is a sub 200 US mobile phone not bad at all not bad so so far my impressions are good one thing that does irritate bug me slightly is every time I use other mobile phones for example my me max is my typical daily driver at the moment but when I do have a look at the screen on this one it's just those bezels of black bezels on there around the outside of the screen I'm not too sure why cool pad and the Eco had to make those so big way can't they size them down they are literally the same size as what you see on the Li max 2 as well their flagship from the Eco there has a Snapdragon 820 and the Builder board of it is good again for the price not bad and the 4k video well it still as bad 4k video still has only 24 frames per second should be 30 I think it should be 30 at least people could say the arcade 24 cinematic but the focus is the problem the focus is still doing that focusing breathing things so it can't get focused locked properly it needs a software or firmware update to fix the correct that and there are some artifacts when you've got a continuous color for example blue sky blue see a white wall you see artifacts and the video but the build of it feels good now I do think just like my first impressions unboxing video that does border around the outside that I think is definitely plastic and the loudspeakers disappointing now charge time it took me almost two and a half hours using a qualcomm certified quick charge three charger so it's pretty slow to charge it fully and if you're going to use the standard charger I think you're looking close to about four hours so maybe three hours forty minutes to fully charge this using the supplied 5 volt 2 amp charger so very slow and why they concluded that charger the stock one and not a quick charge one apparently is because it hasn't been certified by Qualcomm they would have to have paid extra but yes it does support the quick charge function so we need to do is go up there and buy yourself a quick comm a Qualcomm right now welcome quick charge charger and then you'll be able to charge it faster than stock so I will be releasing a gaming review video because people want to see what the gaming performance is like on this so I'll give you I look at that it'll be an extended look because my review will only quickly cover the gaming on it but the full review should be out hopefully within about a week or so once I've had more time on with us but things are looking good so far my only complaints would be yeah the camera 4k the loudspeaker is not loud enough but battery life phenomenal performances good core quality also excellent not bad having any problems with it and the three point five minute headphone jack outputs good sound I can't really say too much about that but it it's fine it seems fine to me so we'll be back with a full review hopefully soon and I will see you then bye for now\n"