The Note 3 Lite runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box with the company’s custom Cool UI on top. Cool UI - like most Chinese UIs - resorts to some heavy customisation on top of Android and takes some time getting used to. At the same time, we like how it focuses on ease of use rather than bombarding users with overwhelming colours and fancy animation schemes. While these are certainly part of the UI, at no point things go out of hand. If however, you’re looking for something close to vanilla Android, Coolpad’s UI is not the way to go. Phones like the Moto E and Yu’s Yunique will better suite you in such case.