If you have restlessly been waiting to get your hands on a top-branded smartphone without spending a lot of money, GearBest’s got your back!

Known as one of China’s best online electronic stores, GearBest has teamed up with CUBOT to offer up to a whopping 40 percent off on a wide selection of well-received smartphones from the popular Chinese Android smartphone brand. Dubbed as ‘2019 Best CUBOT Mobile Phone Flash Sale,’ the promo has been split into multiple categories including ‘Most Cost-Effective, More CUBOT Deals, Top Accessories, And More Deals.

Much to the delight of CUBOT fans, the first section features some of the well-received handsets that they can now buy without emptying their pockets. Here you can find the CUBOT P20, King Kong 3, X18 Plus, CUBOT Power, Note Plus and a slew of other CUBOT-branded smartphones bearing considerably reduced price tags.

For the sake of an instance, the CUBOT P20 4G phablet would normally set you back $206.80, but it is currently up for grabs for only $139.99 under the aforesaid category. On the downside, this 32 percent discount will be valid only for the remaining pieces of the phablet’s black, denim dark blue and twilight black color versions for two days.
The ‘More Cubot Deals’ category comprises the Cubot X18, CUBOT King Kong, CUBOT J3 Pro, and CUBOT J3 smartphones. More importantly, these mobile devices have gone up for sale carrying heavily discounted price tags, but only for a limited period of time.

Some mobile phone accessories carry steep price tags, making it hard for those living on a tight budget to buy them, but that’s about to change. Under the promotion’s ‘Top Accessories’ category, you can buy a myriad of phone accessories like the Gocomma Nylon Braided Type-C Data 3A Quick Charge Cable, Xiaomi Selfie Stick Bluetooth Remote Shutter Tripod etc. for heavily discounted prices.

You can click here to visit the promotion page and take full advantage of the discounts before the promo wraps up!

Check Out GearBest’s Epic CUBOT Brand Sale

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Cubot has made quite a few cheap phones over the time and the Note Plus is one of their latest models. It costs less than $100 but it has quite a few features for the price. Learn more in our Cubot Note Plus review.

VIDEO REVIEW

UNBOXING

The phone ships with all the usual stuff and some extras include a nice soft TPU case.

DESIGN and DISPLAY

In terms of the design, Cubot Note Plus does not look exceptional but the build quality is pretty good even though the device is made of plastic. A 5.2” 1080p display is very good for the price of the phone. We have a 16MP main and front camera.

The backplate is made of plastic and it attracts fingerprints easily. You can also remove it to access a battery and card slots.

Now a few features in a nutshell: the fingerprint scanner is quite accurate but the display could light up faster. The capacitive buttons are not backlit but we have some extras like an LED notification light and LED flash for night selfies. The loudspeaker is just mediocre like on most of the cheap phones.

HARDWARE and PERFORMANCE

The phone ships with decent specs for the price that includes a quad-core MTK6737T chip, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage.

Gaming performance is just mediocre. You should expect quite a few skipped frames and some lag even on medium graphics settings in the games like Asphalt 8 or Nova 3. Also, the phone gets warm quite quickly.

BENCHMARKS

USER INTERFACE

What I like about some cheap phones is that they ship with stock Android 7 out of the box and the Cubot Note Plus is no exception. There aren’t any extra features to talk about but the phone is fast and responsive even after installing quite a few apps.

IMAGE QUALITY

The overall image quality is really good for a phone that does not even cost $100. Obviously, the quality decreases in low-light but still, you can get some usable pictures. Selfies look really good too for the phone this cheap. 1080p video quality is mediocre, just like on most of the cheap phones. Selfie videos are shot only at 480p resolution and the quality is poor.

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CONNECTIVITY

The call quality is not the best but it is decent. Other connectivity options, including Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS, work fine.

Unfortunately, the phone lacks gyroscope sensor, meaning that it is not compatible with VR headsets.

BATTERY LIFE

2800mah battery could perform a little bit better. You should expect to get about 4-4.5 hours of screen-on time, which is a standard result for most of the cheap phones.

CONCLUSIONS

Cubot Note Plus is yet another cheap phone from China that offers quite a few features for the price. The device has a great display, pretty good cameras, and fluid stock Android 7 user interface.

However, you should know that the gaming performance is just mediocre and the battery life could be better.

Even though there are some shortcomings to consider like on all cheap phones, a $99 price tag means that this device will not break your bank.

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The second half of the year is usually a busy time for smartphone OEMs, with almost all the brands lining up one final push for an opportunity to grab a slice of the market share especially since the end of the year usually sees a surge in e-commerce. Cubot Note Plus is Cubot’s own offering which would go official any moment for now.

Cubot Note Plus is a smartphone packing a unique and potentially powerful camera combination. The device features a 16MP HD camera at the rear and also sports a 16MP HD camera at the front. These cameras are tipped to offer pictures and video capture with vivid clarity. The main camera at the rear uses the SONY Exmor RS CMOS sensor with a large f/2. 2 aperture. In the strong sunlight, the photo shoots show a sense of hierarchy. The following are some camera samples shot by the Note Plus.

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The front-facing 16MP camera will achieve automatically beauty function in selfie mode. It supports facial recognition and real-time filter effects, you will fall in love with selfies. Let’s check the pictures comparison:

Apart from the large pixel camera, the Cubot Note Plus also features a 5.5-inch IPS display with a Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080p) with 424 ppi. The display has a larger view angle, the colour is more real, and it supports power saving. It‘s a luminous screen and has an eye-care mode which dims the brightness to soothe the condition. There is also colour temperature adjustment. If you like watching videos and reading, this phone will satisfy you.

Related: Cubot H3 6000mAh battery phone will be released in October (video)

We are not sure when the Cubot Note Plus will officially go on sale or when pre-sale will commence. But the Note Plus presale is expected to begin at the beginning of October, So stay tuned. You can visit Cubot’s official website for the Note Plus to find out more.

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