The Gionee Elife E8 has been on sale in China for months, but it isn’t an affordable phone at 3999 Yuan yet BLU have managed to rebrand the 2K flagship and offer it for just $350!
BLU have a long on going relationship with Gionee. It’s quite common to see Gionee phones show up with BLU branding and sold in the U.S, but this time I think customers States side really have a bargain.
While I was in Shenzhen I saw the Gionee Elife E8 selling for around 3999 Yuan which is about $630, while the exact same phone with BLU Pure XL written on it costs only $350 in the U.S.
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At $350, the BLU Pure XL is one of the most affordable 2K phones on the market today, it also boasts a 24 mega-pixel main camera with Sapphire protection, 3GB RAM, 64GB memory plus room for a Micro SD card, DAC audio and a Mediatek Helio X10 chipset!
A 3500Ah battery seems a little on the small side, but with the latest Helio chips being quite efficient it might not spell the end of a long battery life. Being a true flagship there is also a fingerprint scanner on the rear of the 6-incher.
BLU are offering the Pure XL via Amazon from the 29th September, both gold and grey colour options will be on offer.
Wow, another X10 phone at 2k resolution. What are those manufacturers thinking? Selling a device like that for over 600$ in China must be quite the suicide.
Hi Andi, have you tried the E8? Haven’t been able to find a single review for it. If this is available to ship to the uk I would be interested if it’s any good that is!!
Probably the last to know, but I just saw BLU phones at Walmart here in the U.S. Based on specs over at Device Specifications, should have no problem with 4G in the U.S.
Yea all of their LTE phones support ATT and Tmobile, but not all their phones have LTE.
So the Chinese should import their mobile from USA to get it cheaper?! Crazy world!
hmmm TEMPTED. Sorry Elephone taking too long on Vowney.
Does it have NFC? Anyone find an international sale’s site as opposed to Amazon?
Yea but no international sales as of now
Found it: http://allviewmobile.com/x2-xtreme.html
It is rebranded as the Allview X2 Extreme for €439.00, which is not far off this price if you include 20% import duty (VAT) and delivery.
Very interesting device. Any good reviews that I could check out?
This is the correct pricing for this phone.
Gionee had completely lost its mind with a 650$+ Pricing. (GNEE Tax i guess).
If Blu or Gionee keeps this phone Under 400$, This will be great against OP2, Honor 7, Xiaomi Mi4c, MX5 etc.
Waiting for launch in India. Both gionee and Blu is present in india so o guess gionee will launch this whenever they do. Hope for a good pricing.
True.
My bad. Mi4c is not really a competition for this phone.
250$ for 16gb non expandable, no fingerprint, 2gb ram im guessing. Also It must be same 13mp cam from Mi4i i guess.
This phone will be a competition to the Mi Note i think.
its already in Europe gionee its call allview romania (gionee) and the same phone its . X2 Soul Xtreme http://allview.ro/http://www.emag.ro/telefon-mobil-allview-dual-sim-16-gb-4g-black-x2-soul-pro/pd/DV4XLMBBM/ almost the same price like usa
Considering your entusiasm and “greameerr” you must be romanian (also the fact that you have a romanian name-cola as your pic)
I think he is italian by his name .Marcel is a romanian name -Marcello (like Mastroianni is an italian one) .Capisci?
Many companies rebrand Gionee phones and sell them to europe .Allview ,Prestigio ,Kazam and some russian one i think.
Allview x2 Soul pro it is a different phone.Your link is to an older phone not the one in the article. Gionee E8 is Allview X2 soul xtreme and Blu pure xl. Allview only rabrands gionee phones for years .You can buy older phones like x2 soul pro from emag if you re in Bulgaria ,romania or hungary but gionee e8 not yet.