Back in June this year, Gionee had announced their latest flagship device in the Elife E series, the Gionee Elife E8 at an event in China. The company has today announced that the device will be launching in India on October 8th. The new flagship device, Elife E8 features a 6-inch Quad HD display with a resolution of 1440 x 2560p. It is powered by the 64-bit MediaTek MT6795 SoC which is a true octa-core 2GHz CPU coupled with 3GB of RAM.
Spec wise, the Elife E8 packs the best hardware available today coupled with the powerful Mediatek chipset.
Gionee last device in the Elife E series was the E7 which was launched back in December 2013 and was a massive hit with the 16MP rear camera which produced stunning results. With Elife E8, Gionee has packed a massive 23.7MP rear camera with dual LED flash and this camera is capable of recording videos in 4K resolution. There is also an 8MP camera on front for selfies and video chats. The camera is also capable of taking images in up to 100-megapixel in resolution. Another feature of this flagship phone is that a fingerprint scanner is on back of the unit which is first of its kind from Gionee.
The phone is powered by Android 5.0 Lollipop and has the custom Amigo UI from the company. The Amigo UI is version 3.1 which is improved from S7. There is 4G LTE support along with dual SIM card support. The phone is 9.6 mm thick and weigh 204.4 grams. It is powered by a 3500mAh battery which is pretty good capacity considering the specs.
The invite also mentions about entering in eCommerce in India but we do not have more details now, so stay tuned for more details.
Going by the Chinese pricing, the Indian pricing will be close to 40k, but we do expect Gionee to price is a bit cheaper at 37k considering the competition is now very stiff with lot of players.
