This week was all about two big tech giants launching their flagship smartphones in India. While Google started pre-booking its 2015 Nexus smartphones in the country, Apple on the other hand started selling its new iPhones towards the week end. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Apple iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, Google Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P and more”
As announced earlier, Gionee has launched F103 as the first ‘Made in India phone’ by Foxconn in SriCity. The phone from the F series was launched last month in the country.
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Just two days before, a Gionee phone with model number F103L got certified at TENAA. Now, two more devices from the Chinese smartphone maker have received the TENAA certification.
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Gionee has certified an entry level smartphone at TENAA. The phone with model number F103L sports a 5-inch display with 1,280 x 720 pixels resolution at a pixel density of 294ppi.
This week at an event in Beijing, Meizu announced its a new flagship handset dubbed the Meizu PRO 5. The phone is powered by a 2.5 GHz Samsung Exynos 7420 processor and comes with either 3GB or 4GB RAM variants. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Meizu PRO 5, Xiaomi Mi 4c, new Micromax 4G LTE smartphones, Pebble Time Round and more”
Gionee had announced in July that it will foray into contract manufacturing of smartphones in India. Today, the Chinese smartphone maker has teamed up with Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer and Dixon technologies for the same.
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If you follow the world of Chinese OEMs, you’ll know that theres a lot of white labelling that goes on between brands. With the launch of the Blu Pure XL, we see a high end feature packed handset at a price point that is certainly very tempting. A take on the already announced Gionee Elife E8, the Blu Pure XL brings most of the same specifications at almost half the price point. Continue reading “Blu Pure XL brings 6inch QHD display, 24MP camera and Mediatek X10 chipset for an appealing $349 price point”
This week was all about announcements from world’s leading trade show IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in Berlin. Team FoneArena brought all the exclusive images and videos from the Ground Zero (Messe Berlin). Do checkout our YouTube channel for IFA 2015 videos and more. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: World’s first 4K smartphone, new Moto 360, Gear S2, and more IFA 2015 announcements”
A mid-range unannounced Gionee handset has appeared on Geekbench and TENAA. The mysterious device that has a model model number ‘GN9007’ is said to be the Elife S7 Mini.
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Gionee launched Marathon M4 smartphone in India earlier this month for Rs. 15,499. We have already seen the unboxing of the phone and now let’s take a detailed look at the phone in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Gionee Marathon M4 Photo Gallery”
This week saw a lot of announcements particularly in terms of smartphones from OnePlus, Motorola, InFocus and more. Many manufacturers also launched their smartphones in India such as Samsung, InFocus, Lava etc.
Continue reading “Weekly Roundup : OnePlus 2, Moto X Style, X Play, Moto G (2015) and more”
Gionee, one of the popular global smartphone manufactures has announced that it has expanded its retail footprint in India by partnering with Spice, The Mobile Store, Mobiliti World, Jumbo Electronics, Croma Retail and Planet M. “Gionee handsets will now be available across 1000+ stores and the brand aims to sell 35000+ additional devices every month immediately and scale it up at a constant pace in the coming future”, said the company.
Gionee has announced that it is will start manufacturing smartphone in India. The Chinese smartphone maker will venture into contract manufacturing for locally made devices, as per latest report from Economic Times.
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The Chinese invasion of the Indian smartphone market was helmed early on by the likes of Gionee. Somewhere between the price wars and the somewhat lackluster high end products, the brand never managed to gain the favor of high end smartphone buyers. Sure, the company has done exceedingly well in the mid to low end segment with record breaking turnovers that the enigmatic head of Gionee’s Indian business is proud to trumpet but the higher end has remained elusive. While the company has regularly produced ultra slim devices, with the Elife S7, Gionee hasn’t broken any world records and this very well might be for good reason. All said and done, we went over the handset with a fine toothed comb to ascertain whether the company has learnt from its mistakes and has finally created a high end product that can be wholeheartedly recommended. Did it succeed? Read on to find out. Continue reading “Gionee Elife S7 Review”
You might already be familiar with the Gionee M5, the smartphone that packs dual-batteries that together provides a massive 6000mAH of capacity. Now, we have news about its little brother, the Marathon M4 which also packs a slightly less but nevertheless powerful battery capacity of 5000 mAH.
