Elephone S8 will have Helio X27, but when will it launch?


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Elephone is once again promising the world with it’s latest phone and trying to drum excitement by revealing very little.

Elephone’s Marketing department are a one trick phone. Each and every year they ‘announce’ a new cutting edge phone with killer hardware and pricing and saturate the web with ‘news’ of their phone.

You don’t need to cast your mind back too far to remember the Elephone Vowney, a phone that took over 12 months to hit the market, or even the Elephone P9000, and more recently the S7. Sure the S7, and P9000 didn’t take 12 months to arrive, but they sure did take their sweet time!

So are Elephone set to repeat history again with the Elephone S8?

The phone maker has already revealed a render of the phone (that looks suspiciously like a Huawei with Elephone branding) and promised a phone with unique rear camera design, and today they’ve drip fed us a few more details.

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According to the latest Elephone press release, the Elephone S8 will feature a triple bezel-less design, in fact they believe that they will be the 3rd manufacturer to launch a phone with this design behind Sharp and Xiaomi. Another interesting detail is a triple curved panel, something that we’ve not seen on a phone so far!

Another point they make is the phone’s processor, a Helio X27 decacore chipset running at 2.6ghz which apparently offer 20% better performance than the current Helio X25 chipset.

Along with that processor, Elephone is promising a storage capacity of 128GB and an innovative fingerprint and rear camera design.

The main question though is how long can we expect to wait before the Elephone S8 will go on sale?

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63 Comments

  1. Rob
    December 8, 2016

    Summer 2017 I reckon, if at all.

    • Airyl
      December 9, 2016

      Summer 2069.

      • Muhammad Yasir
        December 9, 2016

        69 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

        • NextHype
          December 9, 2016

          don’t get excited !

          • Muhammad Yasir
            December 9, 2016

            don’t be sore !

      • Ibrahim
        December 9, 2016

        oh you bad boi.

    • NextHype
      December 9, 2016

      release date is encoded in the phone’s name : S8 = Summer 2018

      • Rob
        December 9, 2016

        If that’s the case then s8= summer 8000 so only 6000 years to go, about average for an Elephone release ?

        • Airyl
          December 9, 2016

          You have to be kidding me. You’re joking right? That’s the fastest Elephone release ever!

          • Rob
            December 9, 2016

            Your right my apologies, I missed a 0 off the end!

  2. BS
    December 8, 2016

    please relase before May, otherwise other will launch earlier 🙂

  3. Acta.jr
    December 8, 2016

    l knew it had on-screen fingerprint

  4. Bob Write
    December 8, 2016

    What good is this site when the phones they report on are sold mostly in China. We want to see phones that work in US market.

    • Ibrahim
      December 8, 2016

      So true………. Wait a second WAIT A FREAKING SECOND! I THINK I KNOW IT!!!!
      I was smart enough, to read the website name. gizchina.com
      gizfuckingCHINAdotfuckingcom.

      tyvm.

      • Muhammad Yasir
        December 9, 2016

        sarcasm at its finest

    • Jh1
      December 8, 2016

      I’m not sure how familiar you are with Chinese phones, but many work on t T-Mobile and att in the US. I’ve bought all my phone’s from China for a while now. Work just fine on cricket (att) in the USA

  5. Rob
    December 8, 2016

    Summer 2017 I reckon, if at all.

    • Airyl
      December 9, 2016

      Summer 2069.

    • Guest
      December 9, 2016

      69 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • Ibrahim
      December 9, 2016

      oh you bad boi.

    • NextHype
      December 9, 2016

      don’t get excited !

    • NextHype
      December 9, 2016

      release date is encoded in the phone’s name : S8 = Summer 2018

    • Guest
      December 9, 2016

      don’t be sore !

    • Rob
      December 9, 2016

      If that’s the case then s8= summer 8000 so only 6000 years to go, about average for an Elephone release 😂

    • Airyl
      December 9, 2016

      You have to be kidding me. You’re joking right? That’s the fastest Elephone release ever!

    • Rob
      December 9, 2016

      Your right my apologies, I missed a 0 off the end!

  6. D.Cakaj
    December 8, 2016

    please relase before May, otherwise other will launch earlier 🙂

  7. B5 Elite
    December 8, 2016

    l knew it had on-screen fingerprint

  8. Bob Write
    December 8, 2016

    What good is this site when the phones they report on are sold mostly in China. We want to see phones that work in US market.

    • Ibrahim
      December 8, 2016

      So true………. Wait a second WAIT A FREAKING SECOND! I THINK I KNOW IT!!!!
      I was smart enough, to read the website name.

    • Ibrahim
      December 8, 2016

      gizfuckingCHINAdotfuckingcom.

      tyvm.

    • Jh1
      December 9, 2016

      I’m not sure how familiar you are with Chinese phones, but many work on t T-Mobile and att in the US. I’ve bought all my phone’s from China for a while now. Work just fine on cricket (att) in the USA

    • Guest
      December 9, 2016

      sarcasm at its finest

  9. mikey
    December 9, 2016

    they blur the camera because they don’t know how to drawing it………so they even yet don’t know how to producing it in the next year(s)

  10. ADELAROCHE
    December 9, 2016

    why umi and elephone publish the same news most of time?

    • mikey
      December 9, 2016

      it’s all about the money…….

  11. mikey
    December 9, 2016

    they blur the camera because they don’t know how to drawing it………so they even yet don’t know how to producing it in the next year(s)

  12. ADELAROCHE
    December 9, 2016

    why umi and elephone publish the same news most of time?

    • mikey
      December 9, 2016

      it’s all about the money…….

  13. Tissafra
    December 9, 2016

    For the retards who will actually look forward to the launch, worry not – GizEle will flood its article stream from at least 2-3 weeks ahead of launch, covering every nook and cranny and even irrelevant detais, with a promo coded link to Elephone hk somewhere.

  14. Guest
    December 9, 2016

    For the retards who will actually look forward to the launch, worry not – GizEle will flood its article stream from at least 2-3 weeks ahead of launch, covering every nook and cranny and even irrelevant detais, with a promo coded link to Elephone hk somewhere.

  15. Yason Bedrigion
    December 10, 2016

    Elephone really loves milking their cow line of phones.

  16. Yason Bedrigion
    December 10, 2016

    Elephone really loves milking their cow line of phones.

  17. Jake Neal
    December 10, 2016

    in their latest live streams on Facebook they said the manufacturing would start at the start of 2017, january / february… i hope they post pond the release to fix up the flaws and bugs they might encounter during the development of s8

  18. TheBestt
    December 10, 2016

    why does it have to have that ugly logo at the bottom of front screen? i could think of a ton of better things to put there, a hardware home button for instance would be way better than that logo….

  19. Jimmy D.
    December 10, 2016

    They say this model is not only gonna have triple border screen, but also it’s gonna be triple curved, which I don’t really believe… I guess we’ll see what S8 is really worth

  20. TheJenny
    December 10, 2016

    Ehhh, I really doubt they will deliver on all the promises, I really don’t think the phone will be a hit and will probably cost a lot as well..

  21. _whoDis?
    December 10, 2016

    in their latest live streams on Facebook they said the manufacturing would start at the start of 2017, january / february… i hope they post pond the release to fix up the flaws and bugs they might encounter during the development of s8

  22. OMee
    December 10, 2016

    why does it have to have that ugly logo at the bottom of front screen? i could think of a ton of better things to put there, a hardware home button for instance would be way better than that logo….

  23. Jimmy D.
    December 10, 2016

    They say this model is not only gonna have triple border screen, but also it’s gonna be triple curved, which I don’t really believe… I guess we’ll see what S8 is really worth

  24. TheJenny
    December 10, 2016

    Ehhh, I really doubt they will deliver on all the promises, I really don’t think the phone will be a hit and will probably cost a lot as well..

  25. Massimo G
    December 11, 2016

    I think their marketing department is really good. I hope to see it in the Q1 2017.

  26. Massimo G
    December 11, 2016

    I think their marketing department is really good. I hope to see it in the Q1 2017.

  27. logihao
    December 12, 2016

    That is a amazing phone.I think I will buy this phone when I’m 60 years old. But I’m only 23 years old

  28. Guest
    December 12, 2016

    That is a amazing phone.I think I will buy this phone when I’m 60 years old. But I’m only 23 years old

  29. Pedro
    December 12, 2016

    Another model of elephone? really? for what? Is always the same, defective products, nonexistent updates and depressing performance

    • ADELAROCHE
      December 12, 2016

      the worse software.XD

  30. Pedro
    December 12, 2016

    Another model of elephone? really? for what? Is always the same, defective products, nonexistent updates and depressing performance

    • ADELAROCHE
      December 12, 2016

      the worse software.XD

  31. BS
    December 12, 2016

    design is good but please use another camera interface, this one sucks…

  32. D.Cakaj
    December 12, 2016

    design is good but please use another camera interface, this one sucks…

  33. Deathrow
    February 28, 2017

    Any updates?

  34. Deathrow
    February 28, 2017

    Any updates?