Nonbacklit navigation keys, Subpar battery life, Overshadowed by worthier rivals
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The Gionee Elife E8 can be yours for Rs 34,999, and that's not a small amount to pay for a daily driver. Looked upon in isolation, it has a lot to offer, including a gorgeous high-res screen and smooth performance. The bunch of improvements we've seen...
“The Elife E8's powerful 24MP shooter is quite capable and can shoot well under most conditions”Worthy imaging capabilities are important for every smartphone regardless of positioning, but we expect flagships to be especially compelling in this...
Gionee's Elife E8 has been around for a while, but it was only late last week when it launched in India that I got to spend time with the rather bulky phone.Gionee bet big on their entry-level phones, which I've been told do extremely well in...
The Gionee Elife E8 brings with it stellar, hiccup-free performance and a great battery life. The display is underwhelming, when you compare it to the Galaxy S6 or the Nexus 6P, but that's the ONLY shortcoming. For what's on offer, the Elife E8 is a...
Display and Design: The Gionee E8 doesn't look like any of its predecessors. Indeed it has a premium design. The display size has been increased from the 5.5 inch (as on the E7) to 6 inch and a 2k display over the full HD display, which made everything...
The Gionee Elife E8 is no doubt a very powerful handset with an impressive camera though you might want to go manual for excellent output. Performance is smooth, however the handset does heat up. The max temperature I encountered was 44 degrees.Elife E8...
The Gionee Eflife E8 is a powerful phablet offering quite impressive features and specifications to give a tough competition to its rivals. It has all the ingredients to impress consumers. Though, we think that it could have been even better at a...
G ionee has been real busy in the Indian market and we have seen a flurry of phones making their way via many different segments. And the “E” series has had its primary focus on the camera department. Remember the Elife E7 that came a couple of years...
The Gionee Elife E8 is a curious beast. With an enormous size and equally enormous specifications, there's no doubt that the handset ranks very high up in the spec lists but that alone doesn't make a great device.The display tends to err towards over...
At the fag end of 2013 Gionee stunned some of the then big brands with what they called "the best Android shooter". The successor to the 16MP Gionee Elife E7 has taken almost two years to arrive and Gionee believes it is the smartphone camera to beat....
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