Coolpad unveils new smartphone-Coolpad Mega in India

NEW DELHI: Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad has unveiled its new smartphone-Coolpad Mega,  is a light weight phone, with 5.5-inch HD Sharp display and a 3GB RAM. The smartphone is priced at Rs 6,999, and will be exclusively available on Amazon.in in variants of gold, white as well as black.

The phone will go on sale starting 24 August 2016 via flash sale, registrations with begin from 10th August 5 PM.

"Weighing a mere 140 grams Coolpad Mega is extremely comfortable to hold, a design oriented towards the USP of this phone and a 5.5- inch display that makes it ideal for playing games and watching videos. One of the distinctive feature of the phone is the 83.6°FOV (Field of View), which makes it very easy to cover maximum number of people in a single frame. Mega is powered by a 2,500 mAh battery and has powerful 8Mp front camera for selfie obsessed fans," the statement said.

Syed Tajuddin, CEO, Coolpad India said,” A successful company always need to align its objectives as per the expectations from the market, it has to listen to the customers from wherever, whichever medium it may be. At Coolpad transition is a constant process and voice of users is the opinion accepted with supreme importance. We are raising the bar with every new product and constantly strive to better ourselves so that we can spoil our consumers for choice. With the launch of “Coolpad mega” we aim to capture 13-15% of under 8k online smartphone segment which is growing at an astounding 100% rate YOY. “

He further added, “In the initial phase, the first batch of Coolpad Mega phones will be imported from China and later they will be manufactured in India under our Make in India initiative. We are confident that we will sell 50 K phones in our first flash sale on 24 August, 2016. We will continue in our endeavor to bring customized smart devices to the Indian consumers and will be surprising our customers with a disruptive product before Diwali this year”

Coming to specifications, it features a 2.5D curved screen with 5.5-inch IPS LCD HD (1280 x 720 pixel) resolution. Under the hood, it comes powered by a 64-bit MediaTek MT6735P Quad-core processor clocks at 1.0 GHz paired with Mali-T720 GPU. The device runs on the latest CoolUI 8.0 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box. It supports dual SIM dual standby with VOLTE support and offers 4G LTE network. The device is measured by 7.85 mm of thickness and is the weight around 140 grams.