After being seen at TENAA last week, more details of the Gionee Elife E8 have surfaced surrounding the possible camera features of the phone.
Gionee’s Elife E7 even now is one of the better camera phones on the market thanks to it’s high end optics and 16 mega-pixel sensor, but what about the Elife E8?
Well today it has been rumoured that the next generation Elife model will feature an updated 23 mega-pixel main camera for even higher resolution images.
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It hasn’t been confirmed, but the camera that Gionee could be using might be the OmniVision OV23850 sensor which is actually a 23.8 mega-pixel unit which take photos at a resolution of 5632 x 4224. The OV23850 also supports Phase Detection Auto Focus for fast focussing and HDR video.
Insiders have also linked the Gionee Elife E8 with having a new “lossless” Zoom feature for clearer optical zoom, although there are no details for this just yet.
The Gionee Elife E8 is due for launch later this year with 2K display, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 8 mega-pixel front camera, 3250mAh battery, Android 5.0 and a fingerprint scanner on the rear.
and the price??
The E7 launched for around $430 US if I remember correctly, so I would put this one at around $450.
And now is for $158
That’s the good thing about Gionee devices the high prices don’t often last. Gionee prices remain high for about 6 months. After that six months they are released by all of the Gionee rebrands like Blu in the USA. Those companies usually sell them for less than Gionee did, at that point Gionee will usually discount their own.
Stick decent speakers and audio chip in this and it sounds great, that OV sensor should take some cracking pictures.
*drools*
Smart phone porn! Lol
The OV camera in the E7 was amazing, can’t wait to see how this one performs.
Hm. Pitted against the S5, the E7 camera didn’t hold up well.
And the S5’s camera was not great, with rather compressed dynamic range (noticeably worse than the iPhone 6+ or the S6).
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/galaxy-s5-vs-gionee-elife-e7-samsungs-16mp-camera-pitted-against-cheaper-competition-222404.html
The E8 better be improved A LOT to be in the good camera race.
The E7 camera was one of the best last year. I know because I owned it. I can post dozens of reviews from people praising the camera. I would say it was one of the top 5 camera’s available on Android last year.
so great yet so costly :'(
It’s ironic how some producers are struggling and battling to incorporate Sony sensors (even paying them a lot more of their value) when Omnivision offers some of the best sensors out there and they seem to have plenty… Gionee with E7 showed that good photos are not directly (and only) related to Sony, hope many other brands will realize that.