Update: Elephone P5000 goes on sale for $239.99 shipping from Feb 5th


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Elephone’s huge battery phone, the Elephone P5000 is now available for pre-sale for $239.99 with shipping in early February.

Coming equipped with a 5350mAh battery, the Elephone P5000 promises two days of heavy usage and even doubles as a powerbank with OTG support to charge other mobile devices.

Although we haven’t yet had time to try an Elephone P5000 (our review sample should be on the way soon), the specifications do make it sound like a promising device at a good price.

Up front lives a FHD 1920 x 1080 display, a physical home button with built-in fingerprint scanner and 8 mega-pixel rear camera. The rear has a 16 mega-pixel camera and NFC for easy sync with speakers and other enabled devices.

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What really surprises us is that for the relatively low price, the P5000 boasts the same MT6595 octacore, LTE chipset as the Meizu MX4 and 2GB RAM! Combined with the rest of the line up this is a rather exciting device!

Sorry my mistake, I was checking the specs of another phone while writing this. The Elephone P5000 has the MT6592 with no LTE. Not the same processor as the MX4. It does have 2GB RAM though.

More Elephone P5000 details can be found on the Elephone website along with links to authorised resellers offering the pre-sale.

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17 Comments

  1. January 6, 2015

    MT6595 SoC with NFC and 5350mAh battery for $240? Are you kidding me? Where is my Debit Card?

  2. Azaza
    January 6, 2015

    It says that the SoC is MT6592 on their official site

  3. January 6, 2015

    According to Elephone’s website

    “MT6592 1.7 GHz Octa core cpu, 2GB RAM+16GB ROM, comprehensive test
    score would reach 30,000, it’s capable of challenging.”

    Now where did you see the MT6595 in that specification?

    PLEASE STOP DECEIVING US LOYAL GIZCHINA READERS.

    • January 6, 2015

      sorry just a mistake, will correct it now

  4. abaggie
    January 6, 2015

    Well that’s strange…according to their own site – which is given as source – it indicates: MediaTek MT6592 Octa core 1.7GHz with GPU:Mali-450 MP4. Meaning not the same as the MX4 and without LTE.

  5. Roberto Tomás
    January 6, 2015

    is there an elephone with an IR blaster? this thing looks so good ..

  6. Muhammad Yasir
    January 6, 2015

    no lte , no deal!

    • Yeti hand
      January 7, 2015

      yes yes yes

  7. Chinese Mobile Phones
    January 6, 2015

    Gearbest.com portal specially prepared for us a discount on two of the best phones from the company Elephone:

    Elephone p5000:
    Coupon Code: P5000LM

    Coupon Price: $229.99
    http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_131231.html

  8. Ronnie Katsie
    January 6, 2015

    which other phone were you comparing with?!!!!

  9. roni24
    January 6, 2015

    MT6592 is old.
    come on, for this price it should have at least snapdragon 800.

  10. Zoealandy
    January 7, 2015

    just got mine from coolicool.com, they offer lowest price i’ve ever found, only $228.99, anyone interested could use coupon code: P5000LM

  11. seven7dust
    January 8, 2015

    I can’t beleive people are complaining about the processor/4g etc. they are so may phones with fast processors/4g but so few with big batteries

    it’s simple get those other damn phones some of us need a phone to last , plus this has a fingerprint so it’s a double win.

    this will get about 24,000 on Antutu not the best but good enough for day to day use. remember a samsung s4 gets a similar score and it’s good enough for 90% of the people.

    my only worry is the screen, not a fan of the screens used by low end manufacturers, how i wish Xiaomi ,Meizu or lenovo made such a phone.

  12. Chinese Mobile Phones
    January 9, 2015

    Zoealandy, you are wrong on Gearbest.com is discount on the model Elephone P5000.
    Coupon Code: P5000LM

    Coupon Price: $229.99
    http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_131231.html

  13. G5yy65
    January 24, 2015

    Elephone P5000 is recently accused by a PhoneArena writer of being a clone of
    TouchWiz UI (based on photos of the phone taken by some Antelife staff). The icons, however, do not resemble those seen in Samsung
    Galaxy devices but more in line with those from certain Chinese custom ROMs.