The flagship Gionee Elife E7 is now on sale at an amazing sub $200 price tag! Is this Snapdragon 800 phone still worth a shot?
Last year Gionee launched their flagship Gionee Elife E7. The launch was a big shock to Chinese phone follows as not only did Gionee ditch Mediatek for Qualcomm, but they also packed their then new phone with an amazing 16 mega-pixel rear camera.
The Gionee Elife E7 was and still is a great package, but when it originally launched it had some really hot competition from Xiaomi, Oppo and plenty of other phone makers meaning sales were a little thin on the ground.
International reseller prices were also high at launch too, which didn’t help the phone sell with customers from around the world.
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At it’s new retail price of only $182 though, the Gionee Elife E7 might have another shot. For a sub $200 phone to ship with a Snapdragon 800 processor, 3GB RAM, 16 mega-pixel rear camera, 8 mega-pixel front and 5.5-inch FHD display is pretty rare. In fact only the JiaYu S3 comes close, but at that price you are only getting 2GB RAM and no NFC.
There is the issue that the phone has just Android 4.2 and doesn’t support LTE, but for the hardware and rear camera alone the Elife E7 is a great deal.
Would you consider buying this last-gen flagship at a it’s new mid-range price point or do you prefer to stick with the new breed of Chinese smartphones?
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Just 2500!! I don’t know too many phones and have great performance this year and yes this is better than Jiayu S3 for sure. For all the gods update the phone!
I took a gamble on the Ecoo Aurora in the vain hope the camera would live up to the rest of the specs (and it’s available in a couple of days, not weeks/months like P7000). There are now some sample from Coolicool, file link in description at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE71KMX42Z0. Pics look OK, but quite noisy even in daylight so possibly interpolated from 13mp and would need to see true 13mp pics to judge better.
But I have used an Iuni U2 recently and the pics from that blew me away, so this Gionee (for pics at least) should be sweet.
well , i hope the aurora serves u well and the camera is better than ever. obviously we cant say right now , whether the camera is interpolated or not but the SoC in the phone definitely supports 16 mp TRUE camera. so we’ll have to wait for that.
on the bright side , Ecoo is newer tech and has 4G plus the 64 bit procc and upcoming android 5.0 ota update , all of which will never come to elife 7.
I’d love to hear about your experience with the Ecoo aurora. DO tell us how’d u fare once your receive your phone!
a no-brainer for 160€, almost half the price of the nexus 5 and very good camera. Custom roms take care of android version!
Yep, and on the beginning of the clip stay:….Android 4.4 System.
I can’t find any KK version on Gionee E7.
But I found this:
Chetan Bhawani Mod Jayaprakash Pk • 16 days ago
”We’re told the latest that KitKat is due this month or in Feb.”
If KK realy come on Gionee E7, then is Riccardo B. absolutely right.
I prefer stable KK above Lollipop with bugs.
there is the old version with 2/16, and a refreshed version 3/32. under $200 for the 3/32 version
Could be … but the seller is the clip uploader and there stay Android KK.
That why i’m confused.
I think, if the seller come with clarancy about what EXACTLY he have to sell,
than I’m seriously interested in Gionee E7.