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IT168 reviews Coolpad's thousand-yuan EVDO mobile phone, which is constantly new and full of surprises. Coolpad E230 is a thousand-yuan EVDO star product promoted by China Telecom. The E230 is a large-screen handwritten 3G mobile phone with a stylish appearance, rich Internet applications and powerful entertainment functions. It has high cost performance and is differentiated from mid-range 3G mobile phones. Advantages.

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Stylish appearance 3G ultra-fast network experience

Coolpad E230 has a stylish and compact appearance. The overall body is black with orange-red streamlines. The frame design makes the business-looking body look more fashionable and vivid.

▲Coolpad E230 has a fashionable and compact appearance

It adopts a 2.6-inch touch screen, following the Coolpad brand gene, humanized handwriting input, convenient and fast, and supports multi-word continuous stroke recognition. The recognition rate is high and meets the strict speed requirements of young people.

▲Uses a 2.6-inch screen + handwriting dual touch control

The Coolpad E230 is a Tianyi 3G mobile phone customized by China Telecom, with a theoretical downlink speed of 3.1Mbps and an uplink speed of 1.8Mbps. In other words, it only takes 1-2 seconds to download an ordinary MP3 song at the theoretical peak with this phone, which is faster than the fixed line speed. It can be used for web browsing, software downloads, online videos or online games. More at ease.

▲Coolpad E230 is a Tianyi 3G mobile phone customized by China Telecom

As a low-priced mobile phone, Coolpad E230 also has multiple built-in web browsers: UCWEB, WWW, With Tianyi WAP, you can choose a browser that suits you according to your usage habits to surf the Internet. It has various choices and is easy to operate.

Coolpad E230 body design

In terms of screen, Coolpad E230 uses a 2.6-inch TFT touch screen with a resolution of 240 to 320 pixels. The display effect is still good at standard resolution. Not a bad performance. ?

▲The Coolpad E230 uses a 2.6-inch TFT touch screen

The dimensions of the phone are 104?54?13.5mm and the weight is 94 grams. The overall body is very thin and light .

▲Coolpad E230

▲The overall body is very thin and light

The machine has a built-in 1.3 million pixel camera, which supports up to 1280~1024 pixel photo shooting. It can meet the needs of most people. Since Telecom Tianyi still does not provide video calling services, this E230 does not provide a front camera.

▲Built-in 1.3 million pixel camera

▲Three physical buttons under the screen

▲Coolpad E230 body design

Coolpad E230 detailed design

Having seen the overall design of the fuselage, let’s take a look at how the Coolpad E230 performs in terms of fuselage details. There is a camera shortcut key on the left side of the fuselage, but the key travel feels a bit short. We don’t see any buttons on the top of our common fuselage.

▲The camera shortcut key on the left side of the fuselage

Finally we see the 3.5mm headphone jack on the right side of the fuselage, and our common volume adjustment keys are not added to the side of the fuselage.

▲The headphone jack on the right side of the fuselage

Finally we see the MiniUSB interface on the lower end of the fuselage, instead of using a universal interface. I hope to see improvements in this aspect in the next product upgrade, and see a stylus slot next to the data interface.

▲MiniUSB interface

▲Stylus slot

Open the back cover and we can see the battery compartment design of the entire body. The battery compartment design is divided into two parts. The upper part is a lithium battery, and the lower part is our common SIM card slot and MicrSD card slot. The battery area occupies most of the battery compartment design

▲Coolpad E230 battery compartment design

▲The SIM card slot and MicroSD card slot design under the battery

2.6 inches TFT material touch screen + Widget component

As for the screen, Coolpad E230 uses a 2.6-inch TFT material touch screen with a resolution of 240 to 320 pixels. The display effect is still good at standard resolution. Built-in rich China Telecom characteristic services.

▲2.6-inch TFT material touch screen

You can see some common Widget components in the standby interface, including weather, news and announcements, which can be updated at any time through the network. It is very convenient to use.

▲Startup interface

▲System standby interface

There are five shortcuts at the bottom of the desktop, corresponding to information, dialing, address book and other functions. The entire menu interface of Coolpad E230 is a tiled menu, and you can turn pages by clicking left and right with your finger.

▲Menu style

▲Users can customize the desktop background

The same text message input interface also supports handwriting input, keyboard input, and virtual keyboard input in multiple ways. , giving users more choices.

▲SMS input interface

▲SMS input interface

One thing I want to mention here is that Coolpad’s service is very good. Coolpad has a built-in application. It's called Coolpad Service, which provides nationwide after-sales service point inquiry services, user registration services, and fault feedback services. Such services are convenient for users, and they also help Coolpad's products become better and more user-friendly.

▲Address book interface

▲Address book interface

Built-in rich applications + Telecom 3G special services

As a non-smart phone ,

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The scalability of the E230 may not be very good, but it has built-in dictionaries,

e-books,

calculators, and backups , location query, search, OFFICE, QQ, UC browser, radio, etc. In the 3G era, when China's three major operators are vigorously developing, E230 uses China Telecom's CDMA2000 network and has built-in social networking sites such as Renren and Kaixin. After logging in, you can run outlets, steal goods, and raise pets with friends and classmates anytime and anywhere. etc. ?

▲Rich applications

▲Enrich China Telecom’s special services

▲Special services and weather software

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However, there are some shortcomings

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The E230 has limited audio and video playback capabilities. The playback interface is well made and the playback function options are relatively rich, which can satisfy the needs of ordinary users. Daily needs. It is worth mentioning that it supports equalizer settings and can support audio software rendering.

▲Audio playback function

However,

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E230’s video playback is more difficult, and the general video files are slightly larger. It's more difficult to open. This problem also exists with image browsing software, which also has difficulty processing large files.

▲It is difficult to process large files

Photo test

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The E230’s shooting capabilities are remarkable, although the 1.3 million camera It can't compete with other mobile phone brands, but it still has many shooting function options. The color reproduction of the photosensitive chip is quite good. Seeing is believing, let’s take a look at

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E570’s camera interface.

▲Rich shooting options

▲Rich shooting options

▲Continuous shooting timer function standby capability:

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E230 has a 1080 mAh battery

, coupled with a small display, it is an energy-saving embedded system. Its standby time is quite competitive, under the editor's daily use (1 hour of talking time per day, 20 text messages, 3 hours of surfing the Internet, and 3 hours of listening to music)

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E570 can last for 3 days. This performance is very suitable for business people.

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E230 has a 1080 mAh battery

Battery

Editor’s comment:

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Overall, the E230 has stable performance and rich built-in functions, which is the consistent style of Coolpad products.

Although China's 3G advancement is slow, there are still some achievements. As an entry-level 3G mobile phone with a thousand yuan level

Coolpad E230 has excellent cost performance and has built-in popular mobile phones. The network social function allows users to be online in real time and communicate smoothly. Users can experience the convenience that 3G brings to people and pursue stable performance. Friends who like

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Comments on the advantages and disadvantages of E230

Serial number advantages and disadvantages

1

Ultra-long standby non-intelligent system , limited scalability

2

Handwriting touch screen?

Large thickness

3

3G Comprehensive functions but lack of entertainment functions