Cabot may not be the No. 1 manufacturer you think of when it comes to choosing a right smartphone but this small Chinese company wants to draw some attention by designing some cool looking phones. The manufacturer managed to surprise us with a good build quality and great choice of materials in the past (e.g. Cubox X9) and this time around they have produced another nicely designed phone – Cubox X15.

First of all, Cubot advertises this device as a bezel-less phone, which is a trend that we’ve seeing from Chinese manufacturers for a while. Well, it is not truly bezel-less but it does not have physical borders and 5.5″ 1080P 2.5D display, which adds some great looks to the design.

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The very first impression about the design of this phone is that it is entirely made of metal . Well, it may not be true as the backplate is a plastic one with some metallic elements in it but the frame and the buttons are made of quality CNC metal alloy.

The device spots a combo of 16MP/8MP camera sensors on the back and the front, respectively.

Under the hood there is a MTK6735 chip along with 2GB of RAM and Mali-T720 GPU for graphically intensive tasks. Well, we have already seen a lot of 3GB Chinese smartphones but the reality shows that it is more about the optimisation of RAM memory rather than a raw number.

The rest of the specs include Android 5.1 out of the box, dual SIM-dual standby support (one SIM card slot also doubles as a microSD card slot, which takes cards up to 32GB), 4G connectivity (LTE 800/1800/2100/2600MHz bands) and more.

Overall, the Cubot X15 shapes up to be a nicely designed phone that uses premium materials and good craftsmanship, and decent specs for the price.

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