Barely a week after the Cubot X17 went official, Cubot has officially announced the Cubot P12; the 5-inch device successor to the Cubot P11, has its specifications between low-end and mid-range. It is expected to sell for a price around $100 in Black and White colours.
Based on a metal frame and polycarbonate plastic body, the Cubot P12 sports a 5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels (HD) and 2.5D curved glass. Under the hood, it is powered by a quad-core Mediatek MT6580 processor clocked at 1.3GHz with Mali 400 MP1 GPU, 1GB of RAM and 16GB native storage space.
In the camera segment, it has a 13-Megapixels camera with LED flash and a front facing 8-Megapixels camera for selfies. For additional storage, there is a microSD card slot for storage expansion (up to 32GB) and connectivity options – 3G, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi HotSpot, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, USB OTG and GPS/A-GPS but no 4G LTE support.
The Cubot P12 measures 143.9 x 71.5 x 8.1mm in dimensions, has Dual SIM slots, runs Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and is backed by a 2200mAh Li-Po battery. The drawbacks of the device has to be no support for 4G LTE and just 1GB of RAM which has gone outdated as at this year.
