Gionee Elife E5

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The E5 is easily the best built Chinese droid we’ve come across to date. 

The unibody plastic chassis lends an understated premiumness to the phone and the matt texture keeps fingerprints at bay, for the most part. 

The E5 is fairly slim at 7.9mm and light as well. There are three capacitive buttons in the front and a 5MP front-facing camera up top. 

The buttons on the side are well placed although we would have liked it better if the power button was on the side rather than on top.

The speaker grill is on the bottom along with the micro USB charging port. This design choice is also very reminiscent of Apple’s iPhone 5. 

Around the back, we just have the 13MP camera and a single LED flash. The Gionee branding is discretely placed at the bottom of the phone. 

Overall, the E5 scores full marks for design and aesthetics and easily rivals phones priced much higher.

SPECIFICATIONS:

NETWORK
Technology	GSM / HSPA

LAUNCH
Announced	2013
Status	Available. Released 2013

BODY
Dimensions	137 x 69 x 6.9 mm (5.39 x 2.72 x 0.27 in)
Weight	135 g (4.76 oz)
SIM	Yes

DISPLAY
Type	Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size	4.8 inches (~67.2% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution	720 x 1280 pixels (~306 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch	Yes
Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass 2

PLATFORM
OS	Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean)
CPU	Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU	PowerVR Series 5XT

MEMORY
Card slot	No
Internal	16 GB, 1 GB RAM

CAMERA
Primary	8 MP, autofocus, LED flash
Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection
Video	1080p
Secondary	5 MP

SOUND
Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker	Yes
3.5mm jack	Yes
	- DTS sound

COMMS
WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct
Bluetooth	v4.0, A2DP
GPS	Yes, with A-GPS
Radio	FM radio
USB	microUSB v2.0

FEATURES
Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser	HTML5
Java	No
	- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - MP4/H.264 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer - Voice memo/dial

BATTERY
	Non-removable Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery
Stand-by
Talk time

MIS
SAR US	0.73 W/kg (head)     0.94 W/kg (body)