Today, Gionee at its global product
launch event in Beijing announced two of its highly anticipated phones,
the Elife E8 along with Marathon M5.
The Gionee Elife E8 is the company’s flagship phone that comes with premium specs focuses on photography.
The Elife E8 is priced at CNY 3,999 (roughly
Rs. 40,000), and will go on sale in China on July 15.
The Marathon M5 on
the other hand is priced at CNY 2,299 (roughly Rs. 23,000), and will go
on sale in China on June 25.
The Elife E8 comes with a 6-inch QHD Display which translates to pixel
density of 490ppi. The QHD display is an AMOLED panel that gives deeper
blacks and more vivid colors. Under the hood, the smartphone is powered
by a Mediatek Helio X10 chipset with an octa-core processor which is
clocked at up 2 GHz, and a PowerVR 6200 GPU. The The mediatek chipset is
coupled with 3 GB of RAM and 64 GB of.
The highlight of the Gionee Elife E8 is its 24-megapixel rear camera that with software can stitch together and produce images up to 120 megapixels in resolution. Gionee
is also touting a six-element lens with sapphire glass, optical image
stabilisation, lossless zoom at up to 3x, 4K video recording, a
dedicated camera button, dual-tone LED flash, and phase detection
autofocus for speeds up to 0.08 seconds. The smartphone also has a
'biological' fingerprint reader, but details of type and placement are
still not known. It has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera.The Elife E8 runs Android 5.1 Lollipop-based Amigo 3.1, and is a dual-SIM 4G smartphone. It sports a 6-inch QHD (1600x2560 pixel) Super Amoled display with a pixel density of 490ppi.
onnectivity options include NFC. The smartphone is powered by a 3520mAh battery, and it supports fast charging. More details are limited as of now.
Whilst the Marathon M5's name gives it away as a long-distance
runner as opposed to a sprint specialist, its specs are still reasonably
solid. It bundles a quad-core 1.3 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM, a
13-megapixel rear shooter, 4G LTE and 16GB of on-board storage, which
can be expanded by means of the microSD slot. The 5.5-inch AMOLED
display is only a 720 x 1280 offering, which is a bit of a
disappointment on the resolution front, but it's a sacrifice that
perhaps had to be made to give the M5 such incredible battery
retention.
Despite housing two relatively
large batteries, the Marathon M5 itself isn't too huge. With a thickness
of 8.5 mm and the outer rim measuring 4.75 mm, it's not overly large,
and users should be able to squirrel it away into the pocket without too
much fuss.
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