After over a week since it began to spread online, I finally had a chance to dig deeper on this particular 2nd gen of this smartphone of Cloudfone straight from their head office
Meet the Cloudfone Excite Prime 2 but first, these are the front and back views of the box.
It took the chance to get it's officials so here it is.
Front: 5.5 inch scratch-resistant IPS HD display with 2.5D Glass, 8 MP front cam
Back: 13 MP AF rear cam with Sony IMX 135 senso and LED flash, removable back cover, Cloundfone logo TBD
Internals: 1.3 GHz Mediatek MT6737 64-bit quad-core processor, 3 GB RAM, 32 GB ROM, micro SD up to 128 GB, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, 3,000 mAh built-in battery
From it's physical look and feel, this is a sure upgrade over the first Excite Prime as well as on the display.
The top has 3.5 mm. audio jack while at the bottom, pin hole mic and micro USB port with OTG function. Both the power/unlock button & volume rocker
But here's a note that I cannot put that much judgment as this a prototype unit and there might be some changes in terms of camera output and software UI like on this case that I had a chance to removable that metal-like back cover. You may think of it that it has fingerprint reader but it does not. The placings of 2 micro SIMs and micro SD were almost the same set-up as to the previous generation.
On the benchmarks, the Antutu gave us at over 26,000 and it has 6 out of 9 working sensors.
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They are campaigning for #AwesomeSelfies as their selfie camera comes with a LED flash too which is a first on the brand. You can also do those selfies with blurred background with their portrait mode.
Unlike other solutions that can be adjusted via the aperture, the brand decided to put in a more understanadable way is the slider bar ranging from 0 to 100. For me, I got the best looking portrait selfie at around 53 so here are the samples
Cloudfone Excite Prime 2 rear camera sample
Cloudfone Excite Prime 2 front camera sample
Cloudfone Excite Prime 2 portrait selfie camera sample
There are rumors and already early reports that Cloudfone Excite Prime 2 will be at Php 5,999 but it was not yet final. If there is one confirmation from their officials, it will come out this month.
