Coolpad Legacy Review By TWiT Tech Podcast Network

This is true run, yes, shall we have something that you wanted to show off: that's pretty cool, not necessarily as powerful or as multifunctional as what Ron brought in, but you do have something cool to show us well, I'm, just really glad that Ron started us off in the mid-range, because I want to push us even lower right, right, Mike. Let's do it. I almost want to break out like the infomercial voice, but you could spend less um. So this is the cool pad Legacy III. It was either earlier this year. At the end of last year, I got to play with a $40 cool pad the cool pad Illumine.

This is their kind of step up to something a little nicer fold, retail around a hundred and eighty dollars. But this thing is regularly on Metro for less, like I think when it kicked off, it was a hundred and twenty or a hundred and thirty dollar phone six point: four inch: full HD Plus display Snapdragon 450, three gigs of ram 32, gigs of storage, dual rear cameras, I think 13 megapixels and a 5 megapixel for depth and sort of like that old Huawei system for extra clarity and contrast, and then a four thousand William hour battery with quick charge 3, and it's a lot nicer than I thought it was going to be, and this is just sort of reinforcing again now we're still not covering the basics covering the basics at a hundred and eighty dollars. There are things on here that are really nice quality of life. Improvements to bring to an ultra cheap device like a humongous screen is nice for multimedia and firing up videos. The LCD isn't going to win any awards for being the most color accurate, but you know you're on an airplane you're flying from LA to New York, and you have plenty of battery life to watch movies the entire time and not have to charge it up.

When you hit the ground. You know that that type of improvement to use to interactions the Snapdragon 450 obviously gets a little twitch. Here, it's a little laggy her, especially when you hit it with a bunch of services all at once. Like I, you update an app, and you're trying to use the phone throughout the rest of the UI you'll notice, some stutters, but it's plenty capable hardware at a phenomenal price, and this is just sort of pushing the needle on where we were last year with Moto G sixes. You know that kind of power envelope is now coming in even cheaper with a really nice build quality, headphone jack speakers, metal frame, plastic back.

It actually reminds me a lot of like Lucia, 920 fives or some of those old Microsoft, facility phones, yeah I mean not not I'm, not trying to say the cool pad like ripped them off, but the industry walked away from some of those build design choices, and now we've got entry-level players that are picking them back up. So this I think is gonna, be another really exciting segment for smartphone consumers. The smartphone is a commodity. We're gonna, throw around phrases like cover the basics, but this does better than just covering email, texting and phone calls like you can actually get some fun multimedia use out of something like this, and this is the segment that I think a number of manufacturers are really gonna start targeting more. We got news that Nokia is gonna, be bringing more phones to the United States and the entry-level and mid-range we know Samsung is refreshing.

The series and the 10 e at a hundred and eighty dollars will certainly not quite compete with what cool Pat is doing here for full retail one hundred and eighty dollars. So I think this is gonna start heating up, I think this. This $200 price spectrum is gonna, start delivering far more capable devices, just as we've seen that that kind of tech march down into the three to five hundred dollar price territory to so again, not to me is, is really the exciting trend that a phone like this shows off is its way better than just I can do my email in text. Yeah, I mean I've, been saying for years that the mid-range to low end was the most underserved market and that I think that you know Android historically has skewed higher range for too long, and so like that's, why I'm excited to see what Motorola's doing? That's, what I'm excited to see? What Google? Finally, did you know sub 200 crazy I mean that's just I mean that that opens the door for so many more users yeah. When I saw that announcement on Samsung refreshing the series and making a bigger play about bringing them to the United, States I think that's really telling that smartphone is a commodity.

That idea is starting to take root with the manufacturers. Actually supplying these devices it's not. Can we keep someone paying 40 bucks a month for two and a half years consumers are holding onto their products longer consumers are getting a little savvy ER with their shopping? This is in my own personal experiences. A family and friends of you know my family holding on to device is much, much longer and then, when they're ready to buy a new phone, the Galaxy in their pocket is no longer a foregone conclusion, because they see that sticker shock. They see that thousand-dollar $$900800 price tag or $25 per month for the next three years, and they're thinking about it again.

A lot of them will still continue on with the brands that they're familiar with familiarity still rules the day, but it's bad when it's its tough for a manufacturer. When you build brand loyalty- and you have that emotional attachment to your consumers when they start rationalizing and trying to do the math on their purchases because you'll start losing some of them they'll start straying. Some of them will make different purchasing decisions, and now we've got better solutions to fulfill some of those shoppers. Looking to make a change. You.

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