Gionee Elife S7 hands on


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Gionee launched the Elife S7 smartphone in the S series yesterday at MWC 2015. We went hands on with the phone at the event so lets take a look at specs and hardware of the phone.

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The Gionee Elife S7 sports a 5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The back cover is also protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It is powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-core MediaTek MT6752 64-bit processor. Running Android 5.0 Lollipop it has 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory.

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The phone has 8MP front facing camera, earpiece and usual set of sensors.

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The phone has on screen touch buttons.

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The phone is dual SIM and the SIM card slot is present on the left side of the phone.

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The power button and volume rockers are present on the right side.

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The 3.5mm audio jack, micro USB port and loudspeaker grill is present at the bottom.

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The phone measures 139.8×67.4×5.5mm and weighs 126g.

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The phone has magnesium alloy frame.

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The back cover also has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and has Gionee branding at the center.

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The phone has a 13MP rear camera with LED flash, Sony IMX214 sensor.

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The phone has Amigo 3.0 UI on top of based on Android 5.0 Lollipop. It has a 2750mAh built-in battery and supports connectivity options like 4G LTE / 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, USB OTG, GPS. The Gionee Elife S7 comes in White, Black and Blue and Pink colors and is priced at 399 Euros (US$ 448 / Rs. 27, 730 approx). It will launch in India on April 3rd.

Images by Sandeep

Sneha Bokil-Paranjaoe contributed to this post.


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