Today we are looking at affordable yet very nice looking Cubot S600. Is it any good? Find out in our full Cubot S600 review.
Cubot S600 VIDEO REVIEW:
Cubot S600 Review: UNBOXING
Cubot S600 Review: SPECS
Display |
5″ 720p (HD) |
Processor |
Mediatek MT6735, 64-bit, octa-core (up to 1.3GHz) |
RAM |
2GB |
Camera |
2MP Front/16MP Back |
Connectivity |
Bluetooth, 3G, 4G, GPS, WIFI, GSM,EDGE, GPRS, UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+, dual-SIM. |
Battery |
2.700 mAh (non-removable) |
Dimensions |
14.650 x 7.130 x 0.750 cm / 5.76 x 2.80 x 0.29 inches |
OS |
Android 5.1 |
Storage |
16GB (expandable via microSD card slot up 128GB) |
Cubot included some nice accessories along with the S600 phone. The contents include a tempered glass screen protector, a nice soft TPU case, a charging plug, USB cable, SIM ejector pin and some documentation.
Cubot S600 Review: DESIGN and DISPLAY
As soon as you pick up the phone, Cubot S600 feels like an expensive flagship device. It uses a high quality metal frame around the device and 2.5D glass on the front and rear.
Also, the phone is compact due to the 5” inches display, which only has 720P resolution but it is a high quality panel. It is bright, vivid, colours look natural and it has exclellent viewing angles.
There is an 8MP selfie shooter and a highly customizable LED light on the front top. The capacitive buttons, which also have a nice backlight, are on the bottom.
The glass back is a ridiculous fingerprint magnet and if you hate all the smudges I suggest you going with the white or gold S600 models.
As far as camera, we have a 16MP Samsung shooter with PDAF and dual LED flash. Right below the camera is a fingerprint scanner. I found it to be very easy to setup and accurate to use. Also, it works straight from the standby mode. However, it could be slightly faster at times.
On the bottom there is just a speaker grill.
The buttons are located on the right, they are also metal-made and have a good tactile response.
The left side is where you can find two micro SIM card slots and a separate slot for the microSD card for storage expansion.
The headset jack is on the top and the micro USB port is on the bottom.
Overall, Cubot S600 sports a great build quality, it is nice to look at and hold in the hand, and it literally looks like an expensive handset. However, I don’t like a glass back as it attracts fingerprints and smudges very quickly.
Cubot S600 Review: UI
Cubot S600 comes with Android 5.1 with a light Cubot’s skin on top of it. A great thing is that we still have an app drawer and overall the UI looks like a stock Android with just a few added features and minor design changes.
A few notable features would be the ability to highly customise the LED light and assign different colours to different events. Also, the phone has some gesture controls and they work pretty well if you really care about them. However, I miss some more conventional gesture controls like double tap to wake up the screen and so on.
There is one annoying bug that hopefully will be fixed with a software update. Almost every time you enter the camera app, it thinks you have opened it for the first time. Believe me, it is really annoying as it happened to me almost every time I wanted to take a picture.
Overall, the UI is running very fast and fluid, and this bug is my only complaint but I believe it will be fixed with a software update soon.
Cubot S600 Review: HARDWARE and PERFORMANCE
Cubot S600 is not going to be your next flagship device as far as sheer specs go. It has a quad-core MTK6735A chip with the clock speeds of up to 1.3GHz, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage.
While these specs assure that day to day performance is nice and smooth, what about gaming?
Well, Asphalt 8 runs without lag but you have to keep in mind that there are quite a few skipped frames and a little bit of stutter. On the other hand, it is still possible to have an enjoyable gaming experience and Cubot did a great job optimising the software and hardware.
However, there is one bug that I haven’t seen on any other devices. The game interface gives a pop-up message saying that the keyboard is connected then it is disconnected and it happens randomly.
Cubot S600 Review: MULTIMEDIA
As usual, full-HD content plays without any issues. The sound via earphones is pretty good but nothing expectational.
As far as the loudspeaker, I would say it is above average. While it is not bad, it could have slightly more depth and the volume output is kind of low.
Cubot S600 Review: CAMERA
When it comes to the daylight image quality, they look pretty good as the pictures have a decent amount of details and colours look natural. However, some of the images don’t have even focus throughout the entire picture.
Indoor shots are usually okay but when there is not enough light, you have to keep your hands steady to avoid blurry shots.
Night shots are above average for the phone carrying this price tag. However, most of images are ruined by a slight purple tint.
1080p video looks pretty mediocre with just average amount of details but this is what you have to expect with most of the phones in this price range. See a video review for the video sample.
As far as selfie camera, it will be enough to take pictures usable for social media.
Cubot S600 Review: CONNECTIVITY
All the connectivity options work great. Call quality is okay and signal reception is excellent. Also, Wifi, GPS and Bluetooth are working fine.
Cubot S600 Review: BATTERY LIFE
