New Elephone P8000 comes with Android 6 and changes


New Elephone P8000

Elephone have announced that they plan to launch an updated version of the P8000, so what are the differences.

Elephone’s P8000 proved to be quite popular last year, and it must still be a good seller as the company have kept it in production with a slightly updated version.

The new Elephone P8000 will ship with Android 6.0 out of the box, and will see some physical changes to the rear plus an update to the fingerprint scanner.

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Compared to the original P8000, the new P8000 will have a slightly larger fingerprint scanner located higher up the back of the phone. The new sensor will also allow users to wake and unlock with a single touch.

Elephone released the news of the new phone on their website, and also said they had plans to updated the original Elephone P8000 to Android 6.0 in May.

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42 Comments

  1. Steven Fox
    March 28, 2016

    Likely using the new P10 SoC and the abundance of P8000 phones it did not sell(like they did with the P6000 and Pro). I assume lots of people are sill waiting for their P9000’s to arrive, but they will be disappointed as this P8000 Pro will be the phone they end up getting.

    • E8hffff
      March 28, 2016

      The change in the SoC alone makes it non-compatible. The compatibility is the reason why anyone would consider getting an P8000 upgrade so to speak if they likes their P8000.

      Elephone seems in love with designing phones rather than marketing them successfully. Each worker must be promised a phone to design even if they can’t build it in large quantities before the next phone gets the stage..

      • Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
        March 28, 2016

        lol Indeed. This s pretty much their strategy.

  2. Assefa Hanson
    March 28, 2016

    honestly elephone is the greatest company and im not trolling or being sarcastic, how can they do so much wrong and yet still have so much buzz and ELEFANS!! i am baffled and amazed at the same time

    • E8hffff
      March 28, 2016

      The point is Elephone do promise reasonably priced phones, some with frontline features. Some like me refuse to pay over $400USD for a phone.

      • Assefa Hanson
        March 28, 2016

        they also promise, failed promises faulty hardware etc

        • Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
          March 28, 2016

          Never used an Elephone till now, are they that bad? Faulty hardware?

          • Assefa Hanson
            March 28, 2016

            ok there are ok models of elephone that arent so bad but mjaority have issues, having loose buttons, poor cameras, dead phones and late deliveries, in my opinion they are that bad but maybe thats just me

  3. Man from Earth
    March 28, 2016

    Elephone is the best !!

  4. balcobomber25
    March 28, 2016

    A new Elephone! Elephone must be thinking: Hopefully everyone will forget about the Vowney and P9000 we have been having so many issues releasing.

  5. Riccardo Benzoni
    March 28, 2016

    that must be the dumbest move ever. Why not putting all efforts into upgrading original p8000 to M while trying to give support to some older models instead of this useless release.
    Besides, they didn’t upgrade one of the weakest spots of the phone (along with random hardware failures), which is the camera. Pretty horrid on first p8000.

    • balcobomber25
      March 28, 2016

      This company is so poorly managed it does not surprise me.

      • Joel Adames
        March 28, 2016

        Ohhhnbut it does surprise me how they keep going, viven that they hace so many flaws…

        • balcobomber25
          March 28, 2016

          It surprises me that there are still people who buy into their hype. Their operations department is a joke but their marketing department are doing something right.

    • Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
      March 28, 2016

      Simply because you must buy the new P8000 if you wanna Android 6. They’re just trying to revenue more.

  6. Steven Fox
    March 28, 2016

    Likely using the new P10 SoC and the abundance of P8000 phones it did not sell(like they did with the P6000 and Pro). I assume lots of people are sill waiting for their P9000’s to arrive, but they will be disappointed as this P8000 Pro will be the phone they end up getting.

    • E8hffff
      March 28, 2016

      The change in the SoC alone makes it non-compatible. The compatibility is the reason why anyone would consider getting an P8000 upgrade so to speak if they likes their P8000.

      Elephone seems in love with designing phones rather than marketing them successfully. Each worker must be promised a phone to design even if they can’t build it in large quantities before the next phone gets the stage..

    • Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
      March 28, 2016

      lol Indeed. This s pretty much their strategy.

  7. Assefa Hanson
    March 28, 2016

    honestly elephone is the greatest company and im not trolling or being sarcastic, how can they do so much wrong and yet still have so much buzz and ELEFANS!! i am baffled and amazed at the same time

    • E8hffff
      March 28, 2016

      The point is Elephone do promise reasonably priced phones, some with frontline features. Some like me refuse to pay over $400USD for a phone.

    • Assefa Hanson
      March 28, 2016

      they also promise, failed promises, faulty hardware etc

    • Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
      March 28, 2016

      Never used an Elephone till now, are they that bad? Faulty hardware?

    • Assefa Hanson
      March 28, 2016

      ok there are ok models of elephone that arent so bad but mjaority have issues, having loose buttons, poor cameras, dead phones and late deliveries, in my opinion they are that bad but maybe thats just me

  8. Guest
    March 28, 2016

    Elephone is the best !!

  9. balcobomber25
    March 28, 2016

    A new Elephone! Elephone must be thinking: Hopefully everyone will forget about the Vowney and P9000 we have been having so many issues releasing.

  10. Riccardo Benzoni
    March 28, 2016

    that must be the dumbest move ever. Why not putting all efforts into upgrading original p8000 to M while trying to give support to some older models instead of this useless release?
    Besides, they didn’t upgrade one of the weakest spots of the phone (along with random hardware failures), which is the camera. Pretty horrid on first p8000.

    • balcobomber25
      March 28, 2016

      This company is so poorly managed it does not surprise me.

    • Joel Adames
      March 28, 2016

      Ohhhnbut it does surprise me how they keep going, viven that they hace so many flaws…

    • Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
      March 28, 2016

      Simply because you must buy the new P8000 if you wanna Android 6. They’re just trying to revenue more.

    • balcobomber25
      March 28, 2016

      It surprises me that there are still people who buy into their hype. Their operations department is a joke but their marketing department are doing something right.

  11. E8hffff
    March 28, 2016

    OMG so they are going to hold up production lines manufacturing a phone from last year or more, when people are expecting the P9000 or P9000Edge. Many haven’t even got their Vowneys yet and their P9000’s are being delayed till mid April..

    Note : heard this news two days ago so the OMG is just in disgust.

    • Max
      March 31, 2016

      i’m starting to see some growing anger inside the once so elephanatic e8hffff! 😀

      • E8hffff
        April 1, 2016

        It’s mainly as repercussions for the treatment of Vowney customers.

  12. Owsley_66
    March 28, 2016

    Elephone was supposed to release of “B” version of the P8000 with U.S. supported 4G.

    AFAIK, it hasn’t happened.

    Supposed to release a “B” of the P9000, too, or maybe.

  13. E8hffff
    March 28, 2016

    OMG so they are going to hold up production lines manufacturing a phone from last year or more, when people are expecting the P9000 or P9000Edge. Many haven’t even got their Vowneys yet and their P9000’s are being delayed till mid April..

    Note : heard this news two days ago so the OMG is just in disgust.

    • Max
      March 31, 2016

      i’m starting to see some growing anger inside the once so elephanatic e8hffff! 😀

    • E8hffff
      April 1, 2016

      It’s mainly as repercussions for the treatment of Vowney customers.

  14. Owsley_66
    March 28, 2016

    Elephone was supposed to release of “B” version of the P8000 with U.S. supported 4G.

    AFAIK, it hasn’t happened.

    Supposed to release a “B” of the P9000, too, or maybe.

  15. Young
    March 29, 2016

    They wanna sell modified crap as usual to dummies.

    Only a dummy will take Elephone serious.

  16. Young
    March 29, 2016

    They wanna sell modified crap as usual to dummies.

    Only a dummy will take Elephone serious.