Gionee Launches Flagship Smartphone Elife E6 in Nigeria

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China-based handset maker, Gionee Communications has announced the launch of its new smartphone, the Gionee Elife E6 in Nigeria. First launched in India last month, Gionee decided to launch its Gionee Elife E6 in Nigeria in order to give the Nigerian mobile phone users, a new and unique experience in smartphone usage. Speaking at the launch in Lagos, Africa Regional Manager for Gionee Communications, Jack Yung said the phone, which is a full High Definition (HD) Smartphone, comes in sleek, elegant and classic design, with long battery life that will suit the African market.

 

The smartphone has a unibody design, which is different from today's smartphone designs with several compartments, making the Gionee smartphone stronger than any other smartphone.

It has a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels and pixel density of 441ppi. The phone is extremely thin at just 6.18mm, and weighs 128 grams. Speaking on the features of the smartphone, Yung said: "The Gionee Elife E6 is powered by a 1.5GHz Mediatek quad-core processor, along with 2Gigabyte of Random Access Memory (RAM). The internal storage offered by the phone is 32GB."

 

Giving a detailed presentation of the working features of the smartphone, Marketing Manager for the Nigerian Business Unit of Gionee Communications, Gabriel Nwabueze, said: "The Gionee Elife E6 comes with a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera, which also includes a second generation sensor, along with an LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with a 28mm lens, and both cameras support 1080p video recording." According to Nwabueze, the phone runs on Android 4.2 Operating System, with its own custom Amigo UI layer. The phone is powered by a 2020mAh battery. Speaking at its initial launch in China last month, Vice President, Gionee Communications, William Lu said: "With its intuitive and user interface, we have developed the Elife E6 with the customers' interest at heart. Supplying what is truly important to them in terms of quality, performance and affordability - all in a stylish and sophisticated design."

 

The company claims that the Gionee Elife E6 features Heartbeat Synchronising Technology that enables the system to synchronously wake up applications every ten minutes, reducing the number of applications wake ups improving power consumption. The phone's operating system also automatically sets a white list ensuring essential applications to be wakened up at any time.

It also features motion sensing features allowing users to answer phones by directly raising it up to their ears, answer calls by sweeping a hand over the screen, flip between pictures by a sweeping motion, and automatically play/pause videos when the user looks away from the screen, among other gestures.

 

The Gionee ELIFE E6 is available in Black and White colour variants with matching colour cases. The phone which is already on sale in China since mid-July, will be available in Nigeria next week, and in India after August 2013, according to Nwabueze.

Other features include a 32Gigabyte internal storage, with Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio, and a non-removable 2020mAh battery.

With its unique features, which makes it different from others smartphones, Nwabueze said Gionee intends to achieve faster penetration in the country, develop the Nigerian market and partner with government and stakeholders to further grow the Nigerian telecoms market. Addressing the after sales market, Nwabueze said Gionee would open five service Centres in Lagos and that the smartphone comes with 15 months warranty from the date of purchase.

 

Source: All Africa