The Neffos C5 mainstream smartphone from TP-LINK is correctly placed on the market by including a more powerful SoC than its low-end C5L brother, double the RAM and double the internal memory. While it was not designed to break any records, the 5.0’’ HD display should be enough for most crowds (while saving battery life) and the 2200mAh battery should last for two days under normal usage thanks to the power saving features of the MTK quad-core 64-bit SoC.

The camera quality of this terminal is surprisingly good when looking at this price range; we get a good color reproduction, well-focused scenes and the resulted shots can be successfully used on social media websites or also for our collection. One small bug we have observed while using the dual-LED flash though: while the indoor shots are more clear, the overall result is darker than usual but we think that this issue could be corrected by an OTA update.

GPS accuracy is good but this is not a surprise to us since this was the same result with other smartphones we have tested in the past sporting the same SoC:

Despite the battery being only 2200mAh, the usage of a HD display and a low-powered SoC helps a lot; this also reflects on the score we have received while benching with the AnTuTu Battery Test:

The Neffos C5 also features 4G LTE support, dual-SIM dual standby functionality and the overall storage space can be increased by using a microSDHC/microSDXC card (we have tried an 128GB one and operated without any issues at all).

The Neffos C5 smartphone can be picked up online for about 139 Euros.

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We would like to thank again to TP-LINK for making this review possible!