Emerging Chinese phone maker Vernee is trying to make its mark on the market and the announced Thor and Apollo models certainly garnered quite some attention. So we decided to look at the company as a whole to get some sort of a general idea who they are.
Vernee is pretty new fledgling company being founded just in February 2016 and belongs under the wing of New-Bund Network Technology Co. Ltd. , which is on the market since 2014 and so far specialized mostly in OEM/ODM production. Not surprisingly the company is Shenzhen based, but with subsidiaries in HongKong, Shanghai and Xi’an the scope is larger than that.
With access to a strong R&D team with over 210 engineers and New-Bund bunch of international certificates and qualifications (mainly the Mediatek one) their plans are pretty bold in entering the smartphone market with quality product for reasonable price. After all future belongs to the bold ones so lets cross fingers for Vernee to deliver in 2016 something as good and promising as they say.
Research and Manufacture Capacity, New-Bund’s integration and assembly factory, in Bao’an District, Shenzhen, China
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New-Bund’s research and development team, in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
New-Bund’s quality inspection laboratory, in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Pretty ok article , the new writer is ok , didnt quite see his full potential , but a pot better than that weird woman – Forgot her name eh… but this one is waaaayyy better than it
He writes like he is Chinese which is in conflict with his pretentious biography. I mean all classical music, quality literature and even loves good port! I suppose that he just forgot to mention the Rhodes scholarship and status as a chess international grandmaster.
Come on! Tell me another one…
Sorry to be a pretentious professional classical music singer, but like we always say with my colleagues “…work as any other…” 🙂
what exactly do you compose ?
do you have any samples of your most famed work ?
Im just a singer so not composing anything 🙂 And for the samples ? Just check out some youtube clips tagged “Cesky filharmonicky sbor Brno” or “Czech philharmonic choir Brno”
Brno, so we are not so far from each other.
You should come over to my place, drink some port and I can introduce you to the definite and indefinite articles.
Sure thing, but prepare to get a chess lesson in return.
Wow people are all over you over a simple article! I didn’t think it was that bad I have seen far worse on this site and others. But it’s all part of maintaining a website.
“good port” mkay…
Ok article? A couple off hundred words praising a twin company of elephone with some pictures and info provided to him by new bund company?
Actually its funded by mediatek themselves , Consider their held by their balls regarding software updates and optimization which is elephones bigges company ex. Zuk is manufactured at elephone but managed by lenovo and cyanogen and their support is great , it just looke bland but had great quality and specs i
I don’t want to offend Martin Fabian, but here I try to point out the errors that I found. {PS: I am not a native-English speaker, so do my best as well}{additions in [ ], things to delete in () }
“…its mark on the [ground] and (the) announced…”
“…Not surprisingly [a] company [that is] Shenzhen based…”
“…With access to [a] strong R&D team…”
“…(namely) (mainly) the Mediatek one…” {one of those words is too much}
No offense taken, todays one is filled with more errors than usual, noted.
I like how the comments here have nothing to do with the article! I understand where people are coming from as I’m from the UK and I sometimes struggle to understand the poor grammar in some of these articles. Not sure why they insist on non native speakers to write up articles on an English based website. I would love to do it myself as I’m a techno nut! By the way, why don’t any of the authors ever bother in the comments section as it seems only Andi and Yash ever make the effort. Rant over ☺
Usually we are too busy actually writing the stuff so answering isnt really the top priority, especially the rants 🙂 And Rob feel free to submit piece of your writing, active contributors are always welcome.
i love the brit accent !
(most of my compatriots blame me for having one as well :p )
I have one too, desi style though. My take is simple, you colonised and screwed my country, I will now screw your language. ????
hahaha !
Rumor has it that New-Bund also owns Elephone. You have been warned.
😀
Nope, they but they made the P8000
Every single article Ive seen from this new “writer” has been an ad.
lol
cause for concern , Nilz ?
My concern is that next time we read a review we can’t trust it since half of the articles here are not news, but advertisements
hmm…
integrity is a vital component of the reason we all love Gizchina. lets hope Andi sees to that!
Especially the Elephone articles, this site is becoming the personal ad machine for Elephone.
yup, we always give Elephone amazing reviews don’t we…….
Nope but almost daily there is a new article about some amazing feature that Elephone is hyping. I am not the only one noticing it either, read the comments on any Elephone story. People here think Elephone is getting special treatment.
I would never accuse you guys of doing paid reviews I have been here long enough to know that;s not that case. It just seems like the Elephone news is a bit excessive at times.
It’s an ele-triangle. Elephone have a lot of news, a lot of people like Elephone news (some just for the comments) and this means views (which we need to operate).
Elephone are much better as a company this year, they still need to sort their products out though.
If its crap we say its crap. I understand how pissed I would be if I bought a phone based on a review only to find it was BS. We all know the sites that give dodgy reviews (I can think of two very large ones) GizChina isn’t one of them. Just check our most recent reviews for the Xiaomi Mi5, Elephone, etc
Welcome to the Internet
The ads keep getting smarter
“oh, totally a trustworthy article, now I’m very trustful toward this company and I will surely buy some of their products” – No One Ever
Martin, this is not how to write an article. You dont go all out to advertise for a company all in the name of writing an article. If you dont have anything to write about, by all means, PLEASE DON’T.
We dont need all these ad posts anymore. You will make every GizChina reader to stop reading your AD posts if you continue like this.
if you treat this an AD, then it is, but if you don’t then it’s not 🙂
Looks like someone wrote an Ad post for Verney!
i feel some bias in some of the comments below even though i can understand them somewhat, ive seen similar articles for samsung,motorola etc and no one says they are Ads, i have a question for you all is it even possible for any of you to read an article about a new company and not feel like its an Ad?
There was a story on Android Authority just this weekend about how much of a great buy the new entry level phone from Samsung is. The specs match those of my 2010 Galaxy Nexus S. The author of that article was clearly paid by Samsung to write it.
this is exactly what im talking about lol, i dont have a problem with people not trusting the brand, but people sure do look the other way when actual ads of big name OEM are in their face lol
If anything the big name brands are much more deceptive when it comes to articles. Samsung, Apple, Moto they all have “sponsored” writers will never write a bad article about them no matter how much they mess up.
Personally I look forward to any new brand that enters the market. Competition is always a good thing for a consumer. I have seen articles like the one above about virtually every company in every industry. There is always an “inside look” into a companies factory.
Well, it’s OK to see photos from Vernee offices they have a quality inspection laboratory!!, I bet Elephone doesn’t have one.
Sometimes is good to know about the brands before we buy something, I’ve seen a lot of videos on YouTube of people showing their offices and way to work.
Excuse my English, I don’t speak English, just spanish.
Pretty ok article , the new writer is ok , didnt quite see his full potential , but a pot better than that weird woman – Forgot her name eh… but this one is waaaayyy better than it
He writes like he is Chinese which is in conflict with his pretentious biography. I mean all classical music, quality literature and even loves good port! I suppose that he just forgot to mention the Rhodes scholarship and status as a chess international grandmaster.
Come on! Tell me another one…
Sorry to be a pretentious professional classical music singer, but like we always say with my colleagues “…work as any other…” 🙂
what exactly do you compose ?
do you have any samples of your most famed work ?
Im just a singer so not composing anything 🙂 And for the samples ? Just check out some youtube clips tagged “Cesky filharmonicky sbor Brno” or “Czech philharmonic choir Brno”
Ok article? A couple off hundred words praising a twin company of elephone with some pictures and info provided to him by new bund company?
Brno, so we are not so far from each other.
You should come over to my place, drink some port and I can introduce you to the definite and indefinite articles.
Sure thing, but prepare to get a chess lesson in return.
Wow people are all over you over a simple article! I didn’t think it was that bad I have seen far worse on this site and others. But it’s all part of maintaining a website.
Actually its funded by mediatek themselves , Consider their held by their balls regarding software updates and optimization which is elephones bigges company ex. Zuk is manufactured at elephone but managed by lenovo and cyanogen and their support is great , it just looke bland but had great quality and specs i
“good port” mkay…
Sorry, but if you make the circuit of the phone tech sites on any given day you will see much of the same news. Companies send out press releases and sometimes they get lucky and the news in the press release gets published.
Duh, people.
Nice to see that Vernee has some muscle behind them but the proof is in the pudding.
Sorry but I expect a minimum level of journalism otherwise I will go elsewhere. This is nothing more than a puff piece for Vernee and a poorly written one at that. Unacceptable.
Antyime I see a heading like “brand spotlight” I pretty much assume it’s going to be a puff piece. Every site does this and some are far worse.
Since no one has any of their products it will be a case of wait and see what the results will be.
I don’t want to offend Martin Fabian, but here I try to point out the errors that I found. {PS: I am not a native-English speaker, so do my best as well}{additions in [ ], things to delete in () }
“…its mark on the [ground] and (the) announced…”
“…Not surprisingly [a] company [that is] Shenzhen based…”
“…With access to [a] strong R&D team…”
“…(namely) (mainly) the Mediatek one…” {one of those words is too much}
No offense taken, todays one is filled with more errors than usual, noted.
I like how the comments here have nothing to do with the article! I understand where people are coming from as I’m from the UK and I sometimes struggle to understand the poor grammar in some of these articles. Not sure why they insist on non native speakers to write up articles on an English based website. I would love to do it myself as I’m a techno nut! By the way, why don’t any of the authors ever bother in the comments section as it seems only Andi and Yash ever make the effort. Rant over ☺
Usually we are too busy actually writing the stuff so answering isnt really the top priority, especially the rants 🙂 And Rob feel free to submit piece of your writing, active contributors are always welcome.
i love the brit accent !
(most of my compatriots blame me for having one as well :p )
I have one too, desi style though. My take is simple, you colonised and screwed my country, I will now screw your language. 😬😬😂😂
hahaha !
How come except in the first picture of a front desk, I don’t see the name “Vernee” or “New-Bund” in any other “R&D” pictures? We are not even sure they are making phones or condoms or recycling gutter oil…
I have been on factory floors before and typically the only time you see any branding is the following: front of the building, reception desk, administrative area and actual product. You typically won’t see any branding inside the factory itself. And if you look at the last set of pictures you can clearly see a cell phone being tested in the second one.
Rumor has it that New-Bund also owns Elephone. You have been warned.
😀
Nope, they but they made the P8000
Every single article Ive seen from this new “writer” has been an ad.
lol
cause for concern , Nilz ?
Welcome to the Internet
The ads keep getting smarter
My concern is that next time we read a review we can’t trust it since half of the articles here are not news, but advertisements
hmm…
integrity is a vital component of the reason we all love Gizchina. lets hope Andi sees to that!
Especially the Elephone articles, this site is becoming the personal ad machine for Elephone.
yup, we always give Elephone amazing reviews don’t we…….
If its crap we say its crap. I understand how pissed I would be if I bought a phone based on a review only to find it was BS. We all know the sites that give dodgy reviews (I can think of two very large ones) GizChina isn’t one of them. Just check our most recent reviews for the Xiaomi Mi5, Elephone, etc
Nope but almost daily there is a new article about some amazing feature that Elephone is hyping. I am not the only one noticing it either, read the comments on any Elephone story. People here think Elephone is getting special treatment.
I would never accuse you guys of doing paid reviews I have been here long enough to know that;s not that case. It just seems like the Elephone news is a bit excessive at times.
It’s an ele-triangle. Elephone have a lot of news, a lot of people like Elephone news (some just for the comments) and this means views (which we need to operate).
Elephone are much better as a company this year, they still need to sort their products out though.
“oh, totally a trustworthy article, now I’m very trustful toward this company and I will surely buy some of their products” – No One Ever
Martin, this is not how to write an article. You dont go all out to advertise for a company all in the name of writing an article. If you dont have anything to write about, by all means, PLEASE DON’T.
We dont need all these ad posts anymore. You will make every GizChina reader to stop reading your AD posts if you continue like this.
if you treat this an AD, then it is, but if you don’t then it’s not 🙂
Looks like someone wrote an Ad post for Vernee!
i feel some bias in some of the comments below even though i can understand them somewhat, ive seen similar articles for samsung,motorola etc and no one says they are Ads, i have a question for you all is it even possible for any of you to read an article about a new company and not feel like its an Ad?
when on sites like andriod authority the history of motorola is an article how is it not an Ad then? lets say this article about the history of vernee what possible history could this new company have that is comparable, isnt this then appropriate?
what if this entire atricle only had a negative tone, and had a doubtful tone towards the company would people say it is an Ad then? maybe not because then it would match up to many people’s feelings
There was a story on Android Authority just this weekend about how much of a great buy the new entry level phone from Samsung is. The specs match those of my 2010 Galaxy Nexus S. The author of that article was clearly paid by Samsung to write it.
this is exactly what im talking about lol, i dont have a problem with people not trusting the brand, but people sure do look the other way when actual ads of big name OEM are in their face lol
If anything the big name brands are much more deceptive when it comes to articles. Samsung, Apple, Moto they all have “sponsored” writers will never write a bad article about them no matter how much they mess up.
Personally I look forward to any new brand that enters the market. Competition is always a good thing for a consumer. I have seen articles like the one above about virtually every company in every industry. There is always an “inside look” into a companies factory.
Well, it’s OK to see photos from Vernee offices they have a quality inspection laboratory!!, I bet Elephone doesn’t have one.
Sometimes is good to know about the brands before we buy something, I’ve seen a lot of videos on YouTube of people showing their offices and way to work.
Excuse my English, I don’t speak English, just spanish.
Sorry, but if you make the circuit of the phone tech sites on any given day you will see much of the same news. Companies send out press releases and sometimes they get lucky and the news in the press release gets published.
Duh, people.
Nice to see that Vernee has some muscle behind them but the proof is in the pudding.
Sorry but I expect a minimum level of journalism otherwise I will go elsewhere. This is nothing more than a puff piece for Vernee and a poorly written one at that. Unacceptable.
Antyime I see a heading like “brand spotlight” I pretty much assume it’s going to be a puff piece. Every site does this and some are far worse.
Since no one has any of their products it will be a case of wait and see what the results will be.
This article appears to be a repackaged press release and not any legitimate news. Deidre (previous gizchina writer) used to do the same, usually for doogee or ulephone products. Articles such as these come across as biased and unbalanced, with little done to verify the info or quality control.
How come except in the first picture of a front desk, I don’t see the name “Vernee” or “New-Bund” in any other “R&D” pictures? We are not even sure they are making phones or condoms or recycling gutter oil…
I have been on factory floors before and typically the only time you see any branding is the following: front of the building, reception desk, administrative area and actual product. You typically won’t see any branding inside the factory itself. And if you look at the last set of pictures you can clearly see a cell phone being tested in the second one.
This article appears to be a repackaged press release and not any legitimate news. Deidre (previous gizchina writer) used to do the same, usually for doogee or ulephone products. Articles such as these come across as biased and unbalanced, with little done to verify the info or quality control.
my personal opinion about this, it’s to show customers this brand is not a fake one or would disappear in maybe half years, to show up a proof that could make people not worried before purchase. the point is that we gotta be await when Vernee ship their first load of smartphone out and see how people consider and talk about their brand by using their products. no matter what we read here, we should be objective to this.
my personal opinion about this, it’s to show customers this brand is not a fake one or would disappear in maybe half years, to show up a proof that could make people not worried before purchase. the point is that we gotta be await when Vernee ship their first load of smartphone out and see how people consider and talk about their brand by using their products. no matter what we read here, we should be objective to this.
I am very tempted to buy their entry level Thor. I have seen it for around $120 online and I could always use a new burner phone for travel and what not.
Yup, the Thor looks quite nice. $120 isn’t bad too, but weren’t they saying it would cost about $99?
$120 was a reseller price. I would be willing to pay that to try out a new brand. That’s a small enough commitment to take a gamble on.
or you could be await for 2-3 months that other brands launch 8-core 3GB phone at such $120, hah
This is more about trying out Vernee and seeing what they offer. This wouldn’t be my exclusive daily phone, it would more or less be an experiment. A phone I would use for a few weeks and then throw in the suitcase for travel. I travel a lot for work and pleasure and I always like to bring a spare phone with me.
I am very tempted to buy their entry level Thor. I have seen it for around $120 online and I could always use a new burner phone for travel and what not.
Yup, the Thor looks quite nice. $120 isn’t bad too, but weren’t they saying it would cost about $99?
$120 was a reseller price. I would be willing to pay that to try out a new brand. That’s a small enough commitment to take a gamble on.
or you could be await for 2-3 months that other brands launch 8-core 3GB phone at such $120, hah
This is more about trying out Vernee and seeing what they offer. This wouldn’t be my exclusive daily phone, it would more or less be an experiment. A phone I would use for a few weeks and then throw in the suitcase for travel. I travel a lot for work and pleasure and I always like to bring a spare phone with me.
For everyone who says that Vernee own’s Elephone, you are mistaken. New Bund own the factory that made the P8000 (among other phones for other brands), Vernee is their own brand (think of them as a tiny Foxconn).
andi please calm down with these FACTS, some people might have a heart attack
A factattack, or eleattack?
Doesn’t Elephone own ECOO?
yup
Is ECOO still an existing brand?
Probably more a facet of Elephone and the rest of the other brands. It’s a coming together of the minds and hands of those that have success in their pursuits. Lets hope they get it and we get good phones.
For everyone who says that Vernee own’s Elephone, you are mistaken. New Bund own the factory that made the P8000 (among other phones for other brands), Vernee is their own brand (think of them as a tiny Foxconn).
andi please calm down with these FACTS, some people might have a heart attack
Doesn’t Elephone own ECOO?
Probably more a facet of Elephone and the rest of the other brands. It’s a coming together of the minds and hands of those that have success in their pursuits. Lets hope they get it and we get good phones.
yup
A factattack, or eleattack?
Is ECOO still an existing brand?