The rear camera is a 20MP unit, while the front camera is 13MP. There is a bit of a sneaky design on the rear, as it looks like it has two cameras, but one of those spots is just the LED flash. It also mirrors the KK3 in that it has a 6000 mAh battery, but it's without the rugged design, so it is actually easier to hold and use on a day-to-day basis. It uses the same MT6763T SoC as the King Kong 3, but it offers a 6 GB DRAM and 128 GB storage. It looks like a high-end smartphone, with a 6-inch full-screen display running at 2160x1080. So here’s a device that’s more up my street. Now the name is a bit odd (I guess it kind of fits with a durable phone) but it was my understanding that someone holds the license for the King Kong brand? I’d be highly surprised if Cubot was licensing the brand with those rights owners.īuy CUBOT King Kong on Cubot Power: POWWWERRRRR

If we head on over to the Cubot website, you’ll notice that the webpage for the King Kong line is full of standard King Kong imagery – in actual fact, what looks like direct imagery from the King Kong movie from 2005, just flipped left to right. The King Kong 3 is expected to have a similar design. Here are some images of the King Kong (1), as they did have that on display.

This builds on their first generation King Kong (for some reason there isn’t a King Kong 2), with a ruggedized design focusing on the ability for construction workers to drop the phone and for it still to work, hence the King Kong name. Unfortunately Cubot did not have this device on display, but this is going to be their new flagship: a high-end Mediatek MT6763T processor (8xA53), IP68-rated device with a 6000 mAh battery and simultaneous dual 4G LTE. There were two main devices on display: the Power, which is somewhat of a successor to the H1, and the King Kong 3.

Since then, I had never come across the brand at a show, until this year at IFA, where they had a small booth to try and expand into Europe with their new devices. Having a smartphone that could last almost a week was great. This unit was a cheap Chinese phone, running a low-end quad core SoC and paired with a low resolution screen, which was designed to excel in a single area: battery life.

Readers may remember that back in 2015, I wrote a review about a $150 smartphone I picked up from Amazon called the Cubot H1.

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