Elephone reckon the Vowney is under production


If there’s one Chinese smartphone company you can run, but can’t hide from, it’s Elephone. The company has been in the news for all sorts of reasons, and today there’s another.

The folks at Elephone reckon the upcoming Vowney is already under mass production. If you remember, the Vowney first broke cover in early 2015, and with it’s promise to deliver high-end hardware at an affordable price, won a lot of media footage and attention from prospective buyers.

Andi even managed to get a little hands-on time with the phone a couple or so weeks back. The Vowney is supposed to have a 2K display, 4GB of RAM, a 21 mega-pixel main camera, Android 5.1, a 4000mAh battery and of course, a fingerprint sensor.

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Elephone say that the Vowney is under mass production (and even sent over some images you can see on this article), and go on to suggest that pre-orders would begin mid-October with deliveries commencing by the end of the month. But like you, I take this bit of news with a pinch of salt… or maybe more than that.

Nonetheless, the Vowney should be an interesting device. Recently, we posted a hands-on with the super affordable Elephone Trunk, which you should check out here.

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33 Comments

  1. Reggie
    September 24, 2015

    Please elephone, NO MORE BIG BLACK BEZELS, the people want BEZELESS over the 77% screen body ratio

    • E8hffff
      September 24, 2015

      Yeah that would be awful, but most I’ve seen are mere millimetres. It’s not as if they are sourcing their screens from North Korea or something. The bezels are pretty much standard unless you get special glass moulded screens that can butt right to the edge without protection, or by tricks the manufacture hides the bezels.

      • reggie
        September 26, 2015

        ok im with you , elephone can use the normal bezel wich is that matt said before 2-3 mm without the + 3mm black ugly bezel ,

    • jimberkas
      September 24, 2015

      i know i’m in the minority these days, but the bezels really don’t bother me at all. that being said, i probably still won’t Elephone any time soon. hopefully they’ll prove all of us doubters wrong

      • MattD
        September 24, 2015

        Bezels don’t bother me either, i don’t like bezeless phone at all to begin with. But there’s a difference between the 2-3mm bezels of normal phones, and elephone’s phones: they have 2mm real bezels, and 3mm of black, ugly bezels, completely destroying the design of the device! And, sadly, this vonwey won’t be any different…

        • E8hffff
          September 25, 2015

          I think Elephone have invested in metal frame creation so they can get screens closer to the edge with the frame.

  2. E8hffff
    September 24, 2015

    Cool news. I hope they get review versions of the phone out, so that people know what really is the end product.

  3. xi7
    September 24, 2015

    oneplus 2, poor sensor home, poor camera without 60 FPS, ultra shame zoom camera, antutu crazy 39k 49k and need test 100x maybe get luck with 59k v1.7 64bits. So, not problem with black bezels

  4. MaxPower
    September 24, 2015

    those stools don’t look confy at all

  5. MattD
    September 24, 2015

    LOL the first picture was the one they published months ago to announce the mass production of p5000… That’s not reassuring, isn’t it?

  6. MickyLo
    September 24, 2015

    Good news, vowney will coming soon

  7. Gigi Grace
    September 25, 2015

    They have been going to produce vowney since the beginner of year and now it is still under production. Are they going to release 1 billion all in once? This is just like a bail they used to keep people’s attention to their brand. They actually never produce it because they know no one would buy it. And as far as i know ZUK has break up with elephone, because they failed to lick the ass of Lenovo very comfortably.

  8. tiktaktik
    September 25, 2015

    Why there is very little article updates now on gizchina???

    • September 25, 2015

      I believe we post more content than we did earlier in fact.

      • tiktaktik
        September 25, 2015

        Yeah.!. Mayb am visiting the site too often in a day.

        • September 25, 2015

          Can’t blame you 😉

          • Joel Adames
            September 25, 2015

            Fingers crossed that it will produce an impressions such as the one reported with the TRUNK wich even propossed a full review from the reviwer to confirm how good it is 😉 i’ll keep them crossed!!!!

        • Joel Adames
          September 25, 2015

          me too!!!

    • September 25, 2015

      We post around 17 articles a day…

      • Ivo001
        September 25, 2015

        I find this latest gizchina layout way worse then the previous.

  9. ryannick
    September 25, 2015

    How to determine the production is Vowne? Because we can not see any information determined to be Vowne, so it is likely to be misleading, is untrue news, because now in production from the picture, a few days it should be shipped, do a mobile phone production many days need it?I hope that the next message can have ulefone such a clear picture. So we can believe it.

    • Joel Adames
      September 26, 2015

      PLEASE SEE MY NEW POST UP THERE THERE IS A VIDEO THAT SHOWS THE DEVICE IN PRODUCTION LINE

  10. Stef
    September 25, 2015

    The Win10 dual boot version of the phone (Vowney pro?) seems to have been scraped. So sad :/ .

    It would have had been the first PC/phone hybrid (there is literally no pocketable pc to this day , those pc sticks need a monitor to operate).

  11. Nathan
    September 25, 2015

    Sure I believe this news – in fact, I predict it should be available by the end of 2016 (no typo), surely.

    • E8hffff
      September 25, 2015

      One sales site is saying November 30th as shipping date. If that’s true than it’s making me looking out for alternatives.

  12. Zet
    September 25, 2015

    Looking at the pictures, and thinking about the Elephone phones … I want to give them a loving stroke LOL

  13. E8hffff
    September 25, 2015
  14. E8hffff
    September 25, 2015

    Also they have updated their promo picture and the touch sensitive middle button is multi intelligent, as in two taps = home, single tap = back, hold down = apps/task list.

    • Joel Adames
      September 26, 2015

      GO TO THEIR WEB SITE AND AT THE BOTTOM THEY HAVE A VIDEO named ELEPHONE COMPANY AT 1:04 WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE IS HOLDING?? 🙂

      • E8hffff
        September 27, 2015

        Get you post the link please?

  15. Joel Adames
    September 26, 2015

    HEY YOU ALL GO TO THEIR WEB SITE AND AT THE BOTTOM THEY HAVE A VIDEO named ELEPHONE COMPANY AT 1:04 WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK SHE IS HOLDING????????????????????????????????????????

    • kha
      September 28, 2015

      It shows her holding a phone…doesnt.proof if its real or a dummy phone… u sound like an idiot and i am the only one whos willing to reply to this idiot.

      • Joel Adames
        September 28, 2015

        So sorry if I hurt your feelings, just trying to point it out for those still with fingers crossed that they won’t blow it up and make it right as it seems they did with the trunk as Andi got first impressions the other day.