Gionee on Saturday launched the Elife S
in India at an event in Hyderabad, its
latest slim smartphone offering with a
thickness of 5.5mm. The Elife S7 has
been priced at Rs. 24,999, and will be
available in Black, White, and Blue
colours.
The Gionee Elife S7 was unveiled at MW
2015 , where the company president
William Lu had explained why the
smartphone was not slimmer than its
predecessor, the Gionee Elife S5.1. "We
believe Elife S7 will bring the future of
slim smartphones to the next level. To
make ever-slimmer phones,
compromising on performance and
function is pointless. Manufacturers
should offer more features benefiting us
experience other than just slimness," Lu
had said.
(Also see : Gionee Elife S7 vs Vivo X5Max + )
Gionee claims the U-shaped design of
the aviation-level aluminium magnesium
alloy infused frame around the phone
helps in maintaining the structural
integrity of the body. At the Hyderabad
launch, Lu also revealed the Elife E8
flagship would be launching soon, and
that Gionee would be launching M-serie
and P-series smartphones in India.
Lu added 80 percent of upcoming
launches in the country would be LTE-
enabled. As previously announced , the L
also reiterated support for the 'Make in
India' campaign, and that it would start
manufacturing smartphones in India.
The Elife S7 is a dual-SIM smartphone t
company's Amigo 3.0 UI on top of Andr
Lollipop. It features a 5.2-inch full-HD (
pixels) Super Amoled display with a pixel
424ppi, and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 prot
Elife S7 is powered by a 1.7GHz octa-co
MT6572 SoC coupled with 2GB of RAM.
(Also see : Gionee Elife S7 vs Gionee Elife S5.5 )
The camera options on the Gionee Elife
S7 include a 13-megapixel autofocus
rear shooter with LED flash (claimed to
be the thinnest module of this
resolution), and a 8-megapixel front
facing camera. The 16GB of inbuilt
storage on the device is not expandable
via microSD card. The dual-SIM
smartphone is also Gionee's first with 3
+4G card (Nano-SIM) support.
Connectivity options on the Gionee Elife
S7 include 4G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-
Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS/ A-GPS, US
OTG, and FM radio. It packs a non-
removable 2750mAh battery, which
according to Gionee enables Elife S7 to
last whole day. An 'extreme mode' on
device is also said to enable the last 10
percent of battery power to potentially
last for another 33 hours 45 minutes of
standby time. The handset measures
139.8x67.4x5.5mm, and is certainly
slimmer than it was expected to be, and
weighs 127 grams.
We'd managed to spend some time with
the Elife S7 at MWC 2015, and thought i
was probably the right direction for
Gionee considering it is not
concentrating on making the slimmest
smartphone. While we were quite
satisfied with the build quality and the
software tweaks, but do stay tuned to
NDTV Gadgets for our comprehensive
review.
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