Metal Nano-injection Molding Smartphone C5501 Review and Key Features

By Carrie Tsai,  Last Updated: January 04, 2018

Introduction

As Edward de Bono said of there is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. Wherefore we've always tried to inject new elements to phone design.
Normally, Octa-Core but with a price under $180 stay out of the scope of our review efforts, but C5501 has done everything we've asked for. This low price-tag gets you an AMOLED screen, Octa-Core, a dual camera setup all in a pocketable form factor. Once you go through the below, you'd immediately understand how we got to this review.

C5501 Key Features

• Body : Nano-injection Molding and Wide color-shade rang

• Screen : 5.5" Super AMOLED display of 1440*720 resolution

• OS : Android 7.0

• Chipset : Octa-core MTK6750T

• Memory : 3GB/4GB of RAM; 32/128GB ROM microSD slot for expansion

• Camera : Dual Front 13.0MP FF + Rear 16.0MP + 2.0MP AF main camera, LED flash

• Connectivity : Dual SIM, TD-SCDMA; FDD-LTE; Dual-band;  WIFI ; Bluetooth; Quick charge

• Battery : 4,000mAh

• Misc : Fingerprint reader

The C5501 throws a quite sensible MTK6750T chipset our way, an equally reasonable 4GB, plus 128GB memory setup in its base variant and a respectable 4000mAh battery pack.

The 1440*720P screen resolution also sounds perfectly fitting and reasonable, as far as cost saving measures go. All things considered, the C5501 specs sheet is mostly believable at this price point.

As far as specifics go, the 5.5-inch panel of the C5501 is indeed a few mm shy of touching the edges. Because of the Super AMOLED panel, these are hardly visible when displaying darker images and don't really look off-putting at all.

If an AMOLED screen is a must, last year's Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) is still a solid pick. If you do your shopping right, you can expect near C5501 performance with the added bonus of truly impressive battery endurance.

It also houses a fingerprint reader, which is perfectly satisfactory in both speed and accuracy, especially when you remember you're getting it as part of a $180 phone.

Post-readin, I wish you could have said "pay attention C5501"！