Gionee Elife E7 Officially Announced: Specs, Price, India Release Date
And Competition
Chinese smartphone
manufacturers have been excelling in the business quite well these days.
Following the footsteps of Huawei which has already occupied the third position
in the global smartphone market share in Q3, Gionee also looks to capture some
market share and has announced the their latest handset in the Chinese market.
The device that was
unveiled in Shanghai yesterday comes dubbed as Elife E7, the proud successor of
E6. Talking about the specs, the handset comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x
1080 pixels) IPS touch screen display based on One Glass Solution from JDI with
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and a 2.33mm ultra-narrow frame.
Powering the handset is
Qualcomm's most powerful 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 processor.
However this processor is meant for just the 3G variant of the handset. While
the 4G LTE version will be clocked to 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon MSM8974AC
processor. Both the variants of the handsets run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS
with a layer of Amigo 2.0 UI.
Moving on to the imaging
domain, the Elife E7 features a 16-megapixel auto focus rear camera with 1/2.3″
1.34 µm Largan M8 sensor, 5 element Sapphire Lens and a unique and stunning
8-megapixel auto focus front-facing shooter. Again, Gionee Elife E7 comes in
two variants 2GB RAM with 16GB internal memory and 3GB RAM with 32GB internal
memory.
Connectivity options
include LTE/3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, USB,OTG and
NFC. Further, Elife E7 measures 150.6 x 75.0 x 9.5mm-6.2mm and weighs 150 grams
and draws its energy from a 2500 mAh built-in battery. Concerning the UI
features, Elife E7 has new ways to wake up the screen such as Double Tap, Black
Screen Gesture that lets you draw the gestures on the black screen to go to
customized apps and Voice Control. On top of that, this handset also
incorporates 3 microphones for noise cancellation as well.
The Elife E7 comes in
Black, White, Blue, Green, Orange and Red colors and is priced at 2,699 Chinese
Yuan (approx. Rs. 27,665) for the 16GB variant and the 32GB variant will cost
3,199 Chinese Yuan (approx. Rs. 32,790). It would be available for pre-order in
China later this month and would go on sale on December 12. The Gionee Elife
E7L with LTE support would be available in the first quarter of 2014. The Elife
E7 would launch globally in the early 2014 including India. Gionee has also
announced that the company would launch the E7 mini with a Mediatek octa-core
chipset in the coming months.
Amid growing
popularity of phablets in India, it is for sure that Gionee Elife E7 will have
to face a tough battle in the market from lot of others which comes from the
roots of strong tech manufacturers. First of all the major native rival Huawei
will be one with utmost concern. Others like Samsung and LG will also be
suffering.
If the device comes
in India, it will rival with almost all the Indian premium handsets like
Micromax Canvas Turbo and Karbonn Titanium S7 as well. But GizBot has chosen
Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Lenovo K900, LG Optimus G Pro, Galaxy Note 2 and also
Sony Xperia Z Ultra as its potential rivals. All these devices come with a
similar size and features somewhat similar specs as well. There are differences
in the price.
Key specs: Gionee Elife E7
