Its one of the most anticipated and long-awaited Chinese Android smartphones but now it is finally here. Sit back and watch our first Elephone P7000 Pioneer unboxing and hands on!
The Elephone P7000 Pioneer is a phone that we first heard about back in December, and even now 6 months on people are still excited about the phone. With flash sales of the flagship completed Elephone have started to ship out white versions of the P7000 and we have been fortunate enough to receive our sample before the weekend.
A solid specification line up has been key to keeping the Elephone P7000 in the public eye. Boasting a 5.5-inch FHD display, 3GB RAM, MT6752 processor, LTE, dual SIM, SD card, 3450mAh battery, Android 5.0, Sony IMX214 camera and fingerprint scanner, the P7000 meets all the βmust haveβ specs for a Mediatek flagship phone.
The excitement around the Elephone P7000 has been so strong that we jumped at the Pioneer when it arrived at the office today along with the LeTV S1, which remains in its box still!
Elephone P7000 Pioneer Unboxing and and hands on video
Gizchina News of the week
Elephone P7000 Pioneer photo gallery
Elephone P7000 Pioneer first impressions
So far we have only spent a few hours with the Elephone P7000 Pioneer, this isnβt enough time to give you a full review and give you the full low down, but it is enough time to mention any issues that jump out right from the start.
The good news is the Elephone P7000 has everything it promised to have and is running well so far. Android 5.0 Lollipop on the P7000 runs well so far but only time will tell if there are any hidden bugs lurking in there. The Sony IMX214 13 mega-pixel camera is a surprise! Elephone seem to have optimised it well for good performance out of the box, and we hope this will continue with updates. The fingerprint scanner is also fast and reliable.
It is also great to see the Elephone P700o come with a laminated glass screen protector and a flip cover. Very nice details.
There are a few design touches we donβt really like. The black border around the screen is a bit of a turn off, and the device is a big chunkier than some other phones, but I feel I can life with that as long as the P7000 continues to perform the way it is now.
A full review will be written as soon as possible, but please be patient as a lot of phones have arrived this week.
If you have any questions about the Elephone P7000 that werenβt answered in our hands on video or above please feel free to ask them in the comments below and I will try to answer them.
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Excellent! Glad to see the camera is running well straight out of the box. I have a black version ordered so still have chance to change it to a Ulefone Be Touch if the p7000 turns out to be a dud.
Thanks for this Andi, looking forward to a full review!
You won’t believe how many times I’ve had to refresh this page for the past 3 days. And finally..IT IS HERE! Now breathe….
Its reading time. -)
Hi
Elephone P7000 do support dual sim
(Standard Sim Card + Sim Card)
Which one of these two sim slots supports LTE?
Thanks
You can switch main data simcard (3g+LTE) by software, so it doesn’t matter which slot you choose.
i would be so glad if you could do a smaller review in one or two days. of course you cant know for sure if there are any smaller hidden problems but i want to order as soon as possible and that would help me alot! π
Looking good apart from those horrible black bars. Nice to see Chinese phones finally starting to ship with lollipop straight out of the box just as Google have been showing off android M!!! lol
Some are still on jelly bean!
I know, my wife’s phone (until its replacement yesterday) still runs it. Seen some cheap phones still for sale running Gingerbread!
Jelly Bean was actually my favorite version of Android. The version of Android doesn’t bother me as much as having a stable working version of Android. I have used some devices that have had the newest version of Android and it was a buggy mess that was never fixed.
You know that I agree with you on this, but my point is another.
Chinese companies have shown that they can compete with the big brands speaking of build quality and for cheaper. They are behind if we speak of software. There might be few exceptions but the rule is that most of their software sucks.
So my question is: “why don’t they just release the documentation and let the community work on it?”
I often hear, I would not but that brand… I would not but that brand again.. Because of buggy ROM.
A better solution is for a lot of these companies just to stop trying with their own UI’s and either ship with stock Android or use one of the really good UI’s that already exist.
It’s odd. In the video they look terrible, but in use you don’t really notice them (or at least I don’t)
The best design aspect of the P7000 is definitely the box . I would be tempted to throw away the 1980’s designed P7000 with it gorgeous big painted black borders and put the box on display somewhere prominent.
The only thing missing on this porky beast is a mullet.
To GizChina
Thx for this my firend. I eant to know more about the camera. P7000 and Xiaomi Mi Notr and OnePlus One have the same sensor IMX214. Please, please, please make camera comparison betwen this phone please my fitends. π
P.S. I im waithing for Elephone Vowney. But this will tell me is Elephone go in good way and it will nor foolish me. The camera is really important to me and I was just wondering whether Elephone phones work properly.
Please do the camera comparison. π
Agree with Kiki.
Andi could you do some photo samples and include some low light shots with and without flash.
Would also like to see a video that includes audio quality from the inbuilt speakers. Doing both Music and speakerphone tests. Thanks..
Will do a photo comparison with the Mi Note
if possible a comparison between the p7000 and the ulephone be touch would be great! a couple of pics to compare the size and the black bezels. i will choose between these two phones (and im probably not the only one π ). thanks alot π
I own the be touch (for two days now) and I have to say that so far I’ve been amazed by the quality of the phone. I think from the looks of it that the p7000 bottom bezel is quite similar to the be touch although it might be a tiny bit smaller on the p7000. Anyway so far really liking the be touch. Hope it helps.
THANK YOU! can you say something about the display quality? 720p seems to be a bit low for 5,5″ :/
Well I used to have a nexus 5 (with fhd screen) but in all honesty I do not notice any difference in daily use. However the screen is not that great in bright sunlight (but that could also be due to the screenprotector)
would you send me a picture of the screen, maybe even in comparison to your nexus 5? i have nexus 4 which needs to be replaced. π thanks a lot!
I can’t do a comparison pic however since I do not own a camera. Hope it’s usefull.
I realize now that that is a pretty terrible picture, I’ll take some new ones.
Here are some new ones I took
Wow, thanks a lot π youre a life saver π
No problem, if you have any more questions about the be touch feel free to ask them.
Well, are you satisfied? Would you recommend it? Thanks a lot for your hell!
Yeah I would definitely recommend it. Having such a large phone takes some getting used to but it’s a really great phone. Battery time could be improved but maybe it will after I’ve charged it a couple of times more. Also it’s difficult to judge battery time when you just got a phone because I use it more to play around on it and stuff. Btw what Yash said about the phone being slow in the UI I never experienced. It’s always incredibly fast. So to conclude I definitely recommend it. Ordered mine at gearbest but for some reason the price went up there to $250.
Sounds great! π
Update: gearbest changed their price back to $220
Ahh, maybe this: is it possibly To unlock the phone by tapping in the fingerprint Sensor vor does the Sensor only work if the screen is already on? π
Well the home button is a physical button so if you press it it will automatically scan your fingerprint. This really works well π however what I noticed is that when you’re charging the phone the scanner doesn’t work for some reason.
I agree, I found the quality of the screen to be really rather good, but Yash thought it wasn’t so good in his review. Guess it comes down to personal choice, but as someone who has 2K and 1080 phones, I can say the 720 on the Touch is good.
Yeah exactly. Went from 720 ( LG optimus 4x HD p880) to 1080 (LG nexus 5) back to 720 with the be touch and I can’t say I ever really noticed a giant difference. Never owned a 2k phone because they’re more expensive and they really drain battery and I really don’t believe anyone can see the difference between 1080 and 2k on a screen of 5.5″. I can see why it’s interesting on 50″ tv’s or 23″ computer screens but not on phones
Hey Andi, d review (video) was helpful, thanks. From what u’ve seen do u think d P7000 is likely to have a case of colour washing out or scratching off, something like that, I mean d casing especially with d Gold colour version? Dunno if u get what m tryna ask
I have both phones and will do a comparison. Will also do a comparison with the Mlais M7 when it arrives too.
I wasn’t sure I would like the White version but seeing it here I think it looks nice. This is one of my most anticipated phones to be released in a long time.
Is this the same one you bought or it’s different?
I bought the Gold version I think (can’t remember which one I clicked on). I bought it for a friend though, I won’t even see it. It’s being mailed to his oldest child so he can give it to him for fathers day. So I won’t see it till around the end of June when he gets it.
That “pioneer” confused me. I thought it was a different model. So it’s the same that was on presale for 159$ right?
Yea the P7000’s official name is Pioneer, kind of like the P8000 is being called Vowney (or something like that).
so the p8000 will be the elephone available with w10 too
P7000 could still get it as well. P7000 already supports multiple different ROM’s with more being added every week.
Multiple roms? We have only a video with flyme and colorOs; we don’t need 5 different roms, I’d like one or two well made…
I don’t trust elephone, p6000 was presented as a phone with compass and otg…after some review they changed the infos on website.
Don’t get me wrong, I love (and use) chinese brands for years and I was/am really interested about p7/8000 but elephone will provide real support for these?
Pricing is very good. I keep waiting for Vibe Shot, but am less and less optimistic. Price is going to be high initially, and not really sure if the camera will be outstanding in comparison to P7000.
I believe I read somewhere (maybe even here) the price for the Vibe Shot was starting at $349.
sure you have, i said that . Gave a link too.
I never even noticed you post here before but if you say so then sure…
Does it have noise cancelling mic? No?
I was lucky enough to get the $159 deal, couldn’t refuse the offer. However, I steered away from Mediatek phones for a couple of years because of the horrifically bad GPS performance I experienced in the Jiayu G3. So the big question on the P7000: is the GPS unit any good?
So far with other phones that have used the new 64 bit MTK SoC’s the GPS has been good.
I saw a review of this elephone on youtube (by a French guy who lives in China) and Gps is terrible, glonass is missing and wifi is not so good, I hope that was a only a sample…
It’s tough to tell from one review for a number of reasons:
1. Is his unit an early review unit?
2. Is it running the latest software?
3. Where did he test the GPS? Is it a spot he normally gets good signals?
I know one guy who did already get his and he had a GPS lock within 2 minutes of using it.
I know, one review isn’t enough (and that guy doesn’t seem very expert) but take a moto g or a g2mini (cheaper than p7000 in my country), no problem at all with gps (and wifi).
Gps with mediatek are famous and not in a good way so I always look around before buy a “chinese phone”
To be fair I’m not “worried” about first fix, I care about precision during drive (p6000 without compass was not so good)
ps if you’re interested about the video I was talking: watch?v=2r1RTNfCW1g
Yep, if the antenna is good it will be almost on-par with Qualcomm chips.
I got the $159 deal from Pandawill but it is not going to be shipped until mid June. I too am worried about the GPS there is already a review on another site in French that states the first lock takes 4 minutes
Umi hammer gps performances really good
Well, let’s wait and see. Hope the Gizchina review will shed some light on the GPS performance of the P7000.
GPS is good on the latest 64Bits SoCs, by the way, you can find some better than others. But if theres a issue with the GPS on this P7000 is due to the buggy Lollipop update, I’ve saw other phones running that “unnofficial” lollipop 5.0, and the GPS is really poor, lacks optimizations, but once everything is fixed I guess will be great.
Will you do a video sample with sound record. Want to compare it to ecoo e04 which has amazinh video recording. What do you think is this better or ecoo e04? I also ordered umi emax. Will be fun to test and decide which one to go. I might regret that i ordered p7000 since ecoo e04 seems better.
great new Andi
from the few hours you’ve spent with the phone i think you can tell us about the audio quiality from a connected headset & also from the dual speakers ( or it’s just 1 speaker? mono or stereo ?
also, i read before that this phone might have a choice of using other ROM’s like CM or MIUI. which one you have on your review unit?
thank you, waiting for the full review
Oh c’mon, do the LeTV unboxing.
oh you !
they are both good!
I’m not a big fan of Elephone though.
i wasnt long ago… BUT prices π
Already done: https://www.gizchina.com/2015/05/29/letv-s1-unboxing-and-hands-on-a-super-sexy-device/
Awesome!
Watching the vid gave me an idea, would be cool if the box phones ship in, could turn into a Google Cardboard. Would cost them a tiny bit more and they would need a couple of plastic lenses but it would be something their marketing can take advantage of.
Great idea!
Would be a neat idea but I imagine that is something any company would have to license from Google to use, for the larger companies that wouldn’t be an issue but for a lot of these smaller brands they couldn’t afford the added costs. Unless of course they did the usual Chinese thing of just stealing the idea and making their own version.
lol there is no license and the costs are really really small. The added paper costs are minimal compared to a normal box and the acrylic lenses are 10-20 cents even at limited volumes.
Even on aliexpress you can buy such lenses at 20-30 cents.
The tiny added costs are more than offset by the marketing benefits, that wa sthe point.
According to the user above it’s not yet public so they would have to license it until it becomes public.
google just announced , it will make the plans to build it public soon
Very good idea!
Is a tempered glass protection really necessary if a phone like the P7000 has gorilla glass 3 by itself?
You can still get it scratched even with GG3. So better safer than sorry
Gorilla Glass 3 is incredibly strong and can withstand a lot but it never hurts to have added protection.
Ye, and at least if the tempered glass smashes it’s way easier and cheaper to replace than the whole digitizer (and possibly the lcd panel)…
Now I saw the video and it is funny to see how little the Meizu M1 Note – which has although a 5.5″ display – looks beside the P7000. But I think the big P7000 is amazing for the little money. π
It’s a good all rounder for the money. Has everything really.
Excellent! Glad to see the camera is running well straight out of the box. I have a black version ordered so still have chance to change it to a Ulefone Be Touch if the p7000 turns out to be a dud.
Thanks for this Andi, looking forward to a full review!
You won’t believe how many times I’ve had to refresh this page for the past 3 days. And finally..IT IS HERE! Now breathe….
Its reading time. -)
Hi
Elephone P7000 do support dual sim
(Standard Sim Card + Sim Card)
Which one of these two sim slots supports LTE?
Thanks
You can switch main data simcard (3g+LTE) by software, so it doesn’t matter which slot you choose.
Has the phone support for NFC?
Not found settings for it
i would be so glad if you could do a smaller review in one or two days. of course you cant know for sure if there are any smaller hidden problems but i want to order as soon as possible and that would help me alot! π
Looking good apart from those horrible black bars. Nice to see Chinese phones finally starting to ship with lollipop straight out of the box just as Google have been showing off android M!!! lol
Some are still on jelly bean!
I know, my wife’s phone (until its replacement yesterday) still runs it. Seen some cheap phones still for sale running Gingerbread!
Jelly Bean was actually my favorite version of Android. The version of Android doesn’t bother me as much as having a stable working version of Android. I have used some devices that have had the newest version of Android and it was a buggy mess that was never fixed.
You know that I agree with you on this, but my point is another.
Chinese companies have shown that they can compete with the big brands speaking of build quality and for cheaper. They are behind if we speak of software. There might be few exceptions but the rule is that most of their software sucks.
So my question is: “why don’t they just release the documentation and let the community work on it?”
I often hear, I would not but that brand… I would not but that brand again.. Because of buggy ROM.
A better solution is for a lot of these companies just to stop trying with their own UI’s and either ship with stock Android or use one of the really good UI’s that already exist.
It’s odd. In the video they look terrible, but in use you don’t really notice them (or at least I don’t)
The best design aspect of the P7000 is definitely the box . I would be tempted to throw away the 1980’s designed P7000 with it gorgeous big painted black borders and put the box on display somewhere prominent.
The only thing missing on this porky beast is a mullet.
To GizChina
Thx for this my firend. I eant to know more about the camera. P7000 and Xiaomi Mi Notr and OnePlus One have the same sensor IMX214. Please, please, please make camera comparison betwen this phone please my fitends. π
P.S. I im waithing for Elephone Vowney. But this will tell me is Elephone go in good way and it will nor foolish me. The camera is really important to me and I was just wondering whether Elephone phones work properly.
Please do the camera comparison. π
Agree with Kiki.
Andi could you do some photo samples and include some low light shots with and without flash.
Would also like to see a video that includes audio quality from the inbuilt speakers. Doing both Music and speakerphone tests. Thanks..
Will do a photo comparison with the Mi Note
if possible a comparison between the p7000 and the ulephone be touch would be great! a couple of pics to compare the size and the black bezels. i will choose between these two phones (and im probably not the only one π ). thanks alot π
I own the be touch (for two days now) and I have to say that so far I’ve been amazed by the quality of the phone. I think from the looks of it that the p7000 bottom bezel is quite similar to the be touch although it might be a tiny bit smaller on the p7000. Anyway so far really liking the be touch. Hope it helps.
THANK YOU! can you say something about the display quality? 720p seems to be a bit low for 5,5″ :/
Well I used to have a nexus 5 (with fhd screen) but in all honesty I do not notice any difference in daily use. However the screen is not that great in bright sunlight (but that could also be due to the screenprotector)
would you send me a picture of the screen, maybe even in comparison to your nexus 5? i have nexus 4 which needs to be replaced. π thanks a lot!
I can’t do a comparison pic however since I do not own a camera. Hope it’s usefull.
I realize now that that is a pretty terrible picture, I’ll take some new ones.
Here are some new ones I took
Wow, thanks a lot π youre a life saver π
No problem, if you have any more questions about the be touch feel free to ask them.
I have both phones and will do a comparison. Will also do a comparison with the Mlais M7 when it arrives too.
I agree, I found the quality of the screen to be really rather good, but Yash thought it wasn’t so good in his review. Guess it comes down to personal choice, but as someone who has 2K and 1080 phones, I can say the 720 on the Touch is good.
Well, are you satisfied? Would you recommend it? Thanks a lot for your hell!
Ahh, maybe this: is it possibly To unlock the phone by tapping in the fingerprint Sensor vor does the Sensor only work if the screen is already on? π
Well the home button is a physical button so if you press it it will automatically scan your fingerprint. This really works well π however what I noticed is that when you’re charging the phone the scanner doesn’t work for some reason.
Yeah I would definitely recommend it. Having such a large phone takes some getting used to but it’s a really great phone. Battery time could be improved but maybe it will after I’ve charged it a couple of times more. Also it’s difficult to judge battery time when you just got a phone because I use it more to play around on it and stuff. Btw what Yash said about the phone being slow in the UI I never experienced. It’s always incredibly fast. So to conclude I definitely recommend it. Ordered mine at gearbest but for some reason the price went up there to $250.
Yeah exactly. Went from 720 ( LG optimus 4x HD p880) to 1080 (LG nexus 5) back to 720 with the be touch and I can’t say I ever really noticed a giant difference. Never owned a 2k phone because they’re more expensive and they really drain battery and I really don’t believe anyone can see the difference between 1080 and 2k on a screen of 5.5″. I can see why it’s interesting on 50″ tv’s or 23″ computer screens but not on phones
Sounds great! π
Hey Andi, d review (video) was helpful, thanks. From what u’ve seen do u think d P7000 is likely to have a case of colour washing out or scratching off, something like that, I mean d casing especially with d Gold colour version? Dunno if u get what m tryna ask
Update: gearbest changed their price back to $220
I wasn’t sure I would like the White version but seeing it here I think it looks nice. This is one of my most anticipated phones to be released in a long time.
Is this the same one you bought or it’s different?
I bought the Gold version I think (can’t remember which one I clicked on). I bought it for a friend though, I won’t even see it. It’s being mailed to his oldest child so he can give it to him for fathers day. So I won’t see it till around the end of June when he gets it.
That “pioneer” confused me. I thought it was a different model. So it’s the same that was on presale for 159$ right?
Yea the P7000’s official name is Pioneer, kind of like the P8000 is being called Vowney (or something like that).
so the p8000 will be the elephone available with w10 too
P7000 could still get it as well. P7000 already supports multiple different ROM’s with more being added every week.
Multiple roms? We have only a video with flyme and colorOs; we don’t need 5 different roms, I’d like one or two well made…
I don’t trust elephone, p6000 was presented as a phone with compass and otg…after some review they changed the infos on website.
Don’t get me wrong, I love (and use) chinese brands for years and I was/am really interested about p7/8000 but elephone will provide real support for these?
Hi Andi – Could you please check to see if it has:
1) NFC enabled (There will probably be options for it in settings).
2) Double tap the screen to wake.
3) Press on fingerprint scanner to wake and unlock (or do you have to press the power first)?
4) A Gyroscope sensor in it (installing “Sensor Kinetics” or other sensor app from play store will tell you)?
Many thanks, and look forward to the full review.
1) NFC no
2) I think I showed double tap in the video
3) Power then fingerprint. The sensor isn’t in a button like the Oppo N3
4) No Gyro
Would adding one of those NFC sensors you can buy online make it work with something like Android Pay?
@Yash or any body else from India. Can you buy one for me at $159? My SBI debit card sucks.
Pricing is very good. I keep waiting for Vibe Shot, but am less and less optimistic. Price is going to be high initially, and not really sure if the camera will be outstanding in comparison to P7000.
I believe I read somewhere (maybe even here) the price for the Vibe Shot was starting at $349.
sure you have, i said that . Gave a link too.
I never even noticed you post here before but if you say so then sure…
Does it have noise cancelling mic? No?
I was lucky enough to get the $159 deal, couldn’t refuse the offer. However, I steered away from Mediatek phones for a couple of years because of the horrifically bad GPS performance I experienced in the Jiayu G3. So the big question on the P7000: is the GPS unit any good?
So far with other phones that have used the new 64 bit MTK SoC’s the GPS has been good.
Yep, if the antenna is good it will be almost on-par with Qualcomm chips.
I got the $159 deal from Pandawill but it is not going to be shipped until mid June. I too am worried about the GPS there is already a review on another site in French that states the first lock takes 4 minutes
I saw a review of this elephone on youtube (by a French guy who lives in China) and Gps is terrible, glonass is missing and wifi is not so good, I hope that was a only a sample…
Umi hammer gps performances really good
It’s tough to tell from one review for a number of reasons:
1. Is his unit an early review unit?
2. Is it running the latest software?
3. Where did he test the GPS? Is it a spot he normally gets good signals?
I know one guy who did already get his and he had a GPS lock within 2 minutes of using it.
I know, one review isn’t enough (and that guy doesn’t seem very expert) but take a moto g or a g2mini (cheaper than p7000 in my country), no problem at all with gps (and wifi).
Gps with mediatek are famous and not in a good way so I always look around before buy a “chinese phone”
To be fair I’m not “worried” about first fix, I care about precision during drive (p6000 without compass was not so good)
ps if you’re interested about the video I was talking: watch?v=2r1RTNfCW1g
Well, let’s wait and see. Hope the Gizchina review will shed some light on the GPS performance of the P7000.
GPS is good on the latest 64Bits SoCs, by the way, you can find some better than others. But if theres a issue with the GPS on this P7000 is due to the buggy Lollipop update, I’ve saw other phones running that “unnofficial” lollipop 5.0, and the GPS is really poor, lacks optimizations, but once everything is fixed I guess will be great.
Looks promising. I hope P7000 to be a good device, as my black one is on the way π
great new Andi
from the few hours you’ve spent with the phone i think you can tell us about the audio quiality from a connected headset & also from the dual speakers ( or it’s just 1 speaker? mono or stereo ?
also, i read before that this phone might have a choice of using other ROM’s like CM or MIUI. which one you have on your review unit?
thank you, waiting for the full review
Oh c’mon, do the LeTV unboxing.
oh you !
they are both good!
Already done: http://www.gizchina.com/2015/05/29/letv-s1-unboxing-and-hands-on-a-super-sexy-device/
Awesome!
I’m not a big fan of Elephone though.
i wasnt long ago… BUT prices π
Watching the vid gave me an idea, would be cool if the box phones ship in, could turn into a Google Cardboard. Would cost them a tiny bit more and they would need a couple of plastic lenses but it would be something their marketing can take advantage of.
Great idea!
Would be a neat idea but I imagine that is something any company would have to license from Google to use, for the larger companies that wouldn’t be an issue but for a lot of these smaller brands they couldn’t afford the added costs. Unless of course they did the usual Chinese thing of just stealing the idea and making their own version.
lol there is no license and the costs are really really small. The added paper costs are minimal compared to a normal box and the acrylic lenses are 10-20 cents even at limited volumes.
Even on aliexpress you can buy such lenses at 20-30 cents.
The tiny added costs are more than offset by the marketing benefits, that wa sthe point.
Very good idea!
google just announced , it will make the plans to build it public soon
According to the user above it’s not yet public so they would have to license it until it becomes public.
Is a tempered glass protection really necessary if a phone like the P7000 has gorilla glass 3 by itself?
You can still get it scratched even with GG3. So better safer than sorry
Gorilla Glass 3 is incredibly strong and can withstand a lot but it never hurts to have added protection.
Ye, and at least if the tempered glass smashes it’s way easier and cheaper to replace than the whole digitizer (and possibly the lcd panel)…
Now I saw the video and it is funny to see how little the Meizu M1 Note – which has although a 5.5″ display – looks beside the P7000. But I think the big P7000 is amazing for the little money. π
It’s a good all rounder for the money. Has everything really.
Has the phone support for NFC?
Not found settings for it
Hi Andi – Could you please check to see if it has:
1) NFC enabled (There will probably be options for it in settings).
2) Double tap the screen to wake.
3) Press on fingerprint scanner to wake and unlock (or do you have to press the power first)?
4) A Gyroscope sensor in it (installing “Sensor Kinetics” or other sensor app from play store will tell you)?
Many thanks, and look forward to the full review.
1) NFC no
2) I think I showed double tap in the video
3) Power then fingerprint. The sensor isn’t in a button like the Oppo N3
4) No Gyro
Would adding one of those NFC sensors you can buy online make it work with something like Android Pay?
@Yash or any body else from India. Can you buy one for me at $159? My SBI debit card sucks.
Looks promising. I hope P7000 to be a good device, as my black one is on the way π
What is Elephone’s history with OS updates? If bad, is there typically an active community of developers for custom ROMs? If yes, where is the website because it’s non-existent on XDA, it appears.
What is Elephone’s history with OS updates? If bad, is there typically an active community of developers for custom ROMs? If yes, where is the website because it’s non-existent on XDA, it appears.
I wanna go for d gold colour, but m kinda afraid of d idea of it scratching off or something Lol. Is this at all possible?
I wanna go for d gold colour, but m kinda afraid of d idea of it scratching off or something Lol. Is this at all possible?
Andi, can you please test the wifi range before you release the full review? I had been looking at a Ulefone but backed away after I read poor things about wifi range, so want to know what it’s like on this one.
hello andi will you review mstar S700 soon ?
hi andy
please tell us about quality of this phone…..i saw someone commented that his ELEPHONE g7 stopped work normally after 8 month ……is this phone like that?
please say something i cannot watch this video in iran…..
Andi, can you please test the wifi range before you release the full review? I had been looking at a Ulefone but backed away after I read poor things about wifi range, so want to know what it’s like on this one.
hello andi will you review mstar S700 soon ?
hi andy
please tell us about quality of this phone…..i saw someone commented that his ELEPHONE g7 stopped work normally after 8 month ……is this phone like that?
please say something i cannot watch this video in iran…..
@ andi: can you say something about wifi, gps and most importantly antenna/lte connection? π
Please Andi, I do understand that most people are more interested in the camera quality and bezel-ness of this phone…I’m more interested in the audio quality, especially via headset/earphones. How good is it? The last Mlais M52 I had was a DISASTER. Had to sell it off.
Pick up one with a headphone amp like the MX4 Pro.
Thanks but the question is about this particular phone.
This phone doesn’t feature a dedicated amp or dac.
The sound quality isn’t going to be anywhere near “good”. π
Do you really need a dedicated amp or DAC to get a near good sound? Dont think so. I have a ZTE Leo and I’m very pleased with the sound. Audio should be better on the p7000. Andi, what do you say?
@ andi: can you say something about wifi, gps and most importantly antenna/lte connection? π
Please Andi, I do understand that most people are more interested in the camera quality and bezel-ness of this phone…I’m more interested in the audio quality, especially via headset/earphones. How good is it? The last Mlais M52 I had was a DISASTER. Had to sell it off.
Pick up one with a headphone amp like the MX4 Pro.
Thanks but the question is about this particular phone.
This phone doesn’t feature a dedicated amp or dac.
The sound quality isn’t going to be anywhere near “good”. π
Do you really need a dedicated amp or DAC to get a near good sound? Dont think so. I have a ZTE Leo and I’m very pleased with the sound. Audio should be better on the p7000. Andi, what do you say?
Hi, could you possibly tell us something about GPS performance, ( phone probably doesn’t support glonass) . And I’d like to know whether it has NFC and stereo speakers. Thanks.
no nfc, no stereo speakers.
Hi, could you possibly tell us something about GPS performance, ( phone probably doesn’t support glonass) . And I’d like to know whether it has NFC and stereo speakers. Thanks.
no nfc, no stereo speakers.
Hi there, just yesterday I purchased the Asus Zenfone 2, ze551ml 4GB RAM, 32 GB, 2,3 GhZ.. and now after seeing your P7000 review I am a bit sad π This one seems to have quite the same features and a better cam and costs up to $100 less… Don’t know what to do now, shall I cancel the purchase..? What would you do? How is your experience with these two so far?
I think that your purchase is better than this one.
Thanks for your reply π
It’s on the way because I wasn’t able to cancel the purchase online.
Well… we’ll see, I hope it’s OK π
Don’t be sad my friend , you made the right choice.
The p7000 is garbage quality , I don’t think it will last too long with general wear and tear . If you haven’t already checked Ituxtor’s bend test on YouTube you will get an idea of the quality or rather lack of quality.
I have come from right eight months of using the ZenFone 6 to using the new ZenFone 2. Asus is a customer centric company and your ZenFone will receive timely updates to work out any bugs.
Bear in mind Lollipop 5.0 is lousy for battery life on most phones right now so The finger of blame maybe needs to pointed to Google rather than the phone manufacturer.
Hello, thank you so much:)) Am still waiting for it as the customs in Spain are really really lousy and their bureaucracy kills but as long as it’s worth it… π
Best regards and have a good day!
Hi there, just yesterday I purchased the Asus Zenfone 2, ze551ml 4GB RAM, 32 GB, 2,3 GhZ.. and now after seeing your P7000 review I am a bit sad π This one seems to have quite the same features and a better cam and costs up to $100 less… Don’t know what to do now, shall I cancel the purchase..? What would you do? How is your experience with these two so far?
I think that your purchase is better than this one.
Thanks for your reply π
It’s on the way because I wasn’t able to cancel the purchase online.
Well… we’ll see, I hope it’s OK π
Don’t be sad my friend , you made the right choice.
The p7000 is garbage quality , I don’t think it will last too long with general wear and tear . If you haven’t already checked Ituxtor’s bend test on YouTube you will get an idea of the quality or rather lack of quality.
I have come from right eight months of using the ZenFone 6 to using the new ZenFone 2. Asus is a customer centric company and your ZenFone will receive timely updates to work out any bugs.
Bear in mind Lollipop 5.0 is lousy for battery life on most phones right now so The finger of blame maybe needs to pointed to Google rather than the phone manufacturer.
Hello, thank you so much:)) Am still waiting for it as the customs in Spain are really really lousy and their bureaucracy kills but as long as it’s worth it… π
Best regards and have a good day!
Hey Andi…
Elephone Support Indian Sim Card ???? Tell Me
Hey Andi…
Elephone Support Indian Sim Card ???? Tell Me
To Andi, π
Please, please, please do the camera comparison(photo and video) between Elephone P7000, LETV and Xiaomi Mi Note. Because they have the same sensor IMX214. π
To Andi, π
Please, please, please do the camera comparison(photo and video) between Elephone P7000, LETV and Xiaomi Mi Note. Because they have the same sensor IMX214. π
Why don’t use front Touch ID, like ulefone be touch. I like the phone, but not the rear fingerprint.
Because they can’t, it’s too hard for them to go front. And forget Be Touch, Be Touch 2 has come.
But ulefone can do it. I know ulefone be touch 2, But can i buy it for $179.99?
I’m worried about Chinese smartphone camera effect, elephone p7000 camera is bad
Why don’t use front Touch ID, like ulefone be touch. I like the phone, but not the rear fingerprint.
Because they can’t, it’s too hard for them to go front. And forget Be Touch, Be Touch 2 has come.
But ulefone can do it. I know ulefone be touch 2, But can i buy it for $179.99?
I’m worried about Chinese smartphone camera effect, elephone p7000 camera is bad
Hello I purchased ELEPHONE7000 when I get the call hear me shed
But Casrani communicates everything is fine I would like your help
Hello I purchased ELEPHONE7000 when I get the call hear me shed
But Casrani communicates everything is fine I would like your help
in elephone P7000 how do i introduce the sim?
in elephone P7000 how do i introduce the sim?