Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Chinese smartphone vendor, Coolpad, is continually expanding their product portfolio in the country. After launching the Coolpad Cool 1 Dual in India, the company has come up with yet another smartphone, the Coolpad Note 5 Lite. As the name itself suggests, the Note 5 Lite is the stripped down version of the Note 5 and is aimed at competing the entry-level king, Xiaomi Redmi 3s.

The Coolpad Note 5 Lite comes with a 5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 720×1280 pixels, that further extends to a pixel density of 294 PPI.The Note 5 Lite features a 70.6 percent screen-to-body ratio. The phone features unimetal body design and features a fingerprint sensor placed at the rear side of the phone below the camera module.
At the heart of the phone, there is a MediaTek MT6735CP SoC, which is a quad-core chipset with all the four cores clocked at 1GHz. The chipset is armed with an ARM Mali-720 GPU. Interestingly, Coolpad has added 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage in the Note 5 Lite. The storage is expandable up to 64GB via microSD card.
The Coolpad Note 5 Lite packs a 13MP rear facing the camera with support for PDAF and LED flash. Also, the phone has an 8MP front-facing camera that has support for LED flash as well. The phone boots Android 6.0 Marshmallow based Cool UI 8.0 skin.
The phone comes with various connectivity options- 4G LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, USB OTG, and micro USB port 2.0. The Note 5 Lite measures 8.7mm in thickness and weigh 148 grams and the low weight is due to the presence of small 2500mAh battery.