Saturday, 5 July 2014

Gionee Elife S5.5 Review

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Company Profile:-Before  past few months, we’ve been consistently impressed by the offerings brought forth by Gionee. With a focus on bringing high end specifications at a mainstream price point, the company has mostly succeeded with the likes of the Elife E6 and E7. They recently  Dubbed the Elife S5.5, the USP of the phone is most definitely the aesthetics. But great looks do not make a great phone, are the internals and software up to the task of keeping up with the stellar design? Read on to find out.

Gionee Elife S5.5


Product:-
At the front you get an incredibly bright 5 inch SUPER AMOLED display. Below the display are three capacitive buttons. These buttons practically disappear into the ink like black fascia of the handset once the backlighting goes off. Above the screen is the 5MP front facing camera. The Gorilla Glass coating on the front of the phone gently tapers off at the edges as it melds into the straight lines of the magnesium alloy shell.

Design:-

The phone measures in at 145.1 x 70.2 x 5.5mm which arguably makes it the slimmest device in the world. Worth noting is that the camera module sticks out from the shell about a millimeter or so. The back of the phone too is Gorilla Glass 3 with Gionee branding running down the middle. We believe that the phone is extremely good looking but the metal shell can prove to be a bit too sharp edged making it dig into your palms. The phone is also deceptively light at just 129grams. Over all a brilliant feat of engineering when it comes to hardware.

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Performance:-
It  runs on the MediaTek MT6592 processor that pairs a 1.7Ghz octa core processor with a Mali 450MP GPU this I a good package of hardware. On paper, this combination is potent enough for most usage scenarios but less than stellar optimization means that interface lags are all too evident. The MediaTek MT6592 processor offers a combination of 8 Cortex A7 cores that work via Heterogenous Multi Processing to offer a fairly high level of processing capabilities. The chip set also offers hardware acceleration for VP9 and H.265 based media. Moving on towards synthetic benchmarks, we find that the handset ranks favorably amongst the competition.

Display Of  Gionee Elife S5.5:-
A 5 inch Full HD display can be seen up front and center on the Elife S5.5. The display has a pixel density of 441 ppi. The panel is of the Super AMOLED variety which means that black levels are as deep as they can be and colors are bright if not a bit oversaturated. Additionally, the screen is also exceptionally bright. We regularly found ourselves tuning down the brightness levels when indoors

Specification:-
§  5-inch (1920  x 1080 pixels) Full HD Super AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
§  1.7 GHz Octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor with Mali 450-MP4 GPU
§  Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) with Amigo 2.0 UI
§  13MP auto focus camera with LED flash, Stacked Sony sensor, 1080p video recording
§  5MP front-facing camera
§  Dimensions: 145.1×70.2×5.55mm; Weight: 130 grams
§  2GB LPDDR3 RAM, 16GB internal memory
§  3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, WIFI Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, USB OTG GPS
2300 mAh battery

Camera
The Gionee Elife S5.5 is providing   13MP camera that has an LED flash . The camera interface is quite interesting with a very feature rich but difficult to control layout. The software enables a lot of features like white balance, exposure compensation, ISO, a range of capture modes, self timer interface as well as dedicated shooting modes. The camera module itself sticks out from the body of the phone which can make it prone to scratches but the company has used toughened glass on the lens to prevent this.
Here is a sample of Camera Performance


Battery Life, Connectivity & Miscellaneous
 It has  2,300 mAh battery powers . The company has rated the phone for 11 hours of talk time. In our usage we would usually get till the evening before the phone had to be topped up. We could just over 5 hours of video viewing on the phone while browsing the internet brought down usage time to just about 4 hours. This proves well below average in our opinion and with active usage, you will definitely have to top up the phone every night.it should be atleast 3000 mAh battery power.

Price:- The best price of Gionee Elife S5.5 in India is Rs. 19232. The pricehas been sourced from 9 online stores in India as on 2014 5th July.online dealing site for this price  - http://www.mysmartprice.com/mobile/gionee-elife-s5.5-msp4048

We Like :-

§  Design & Construction
§  Camera
§  Display
We Don’t Like:-

§  Average performance
§  Battery Life
§  Video quality

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