Got a Gionee Elife E7? Kitkat confirmed soon

AndiFebruary 26, 2015

It might seem a little ridiculous to be talking about Kitkat updates while everyone moves on to Lollipop, but that’s what owners of the Flagship Gionee Elife E7 can look forward too.

The Gionee Elife E7 is a phone with amazing hardware which has always struggled with poor OS. The phone run’s Gionee’s own Amigo OS based on Android 4.3, which is a buggy mess, but an update is coming in March that might make everything a lot better.

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Gionee have confirmed that a new version of Amigo will be released for their current flagship based on Android 4.4 Kitkat, and hopefully this will run a lot better. We also hope to see Lollipop at some point in the future.

The Gionee Elife E7 recently received a price drop making the phone cost below $200, pretty amazing for a Snapdragon 800 phone with 16 mega-pixel main camera.

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Andi

February 26, 2015
Little preview of this update:
http://androidadvices.com/gionee-elife-e7-android-kitkat-update/
And there is some project on XDA for lollipop:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/elife-e7/general/elife-e7-discovery-elite-32-3-t3006957
it would be nice if someone can help in this project 🙂
iKosh
February 26, 2015
Very good news. I’m thinking about buying this phone.

Marco Lancaster
February 26, 2015
Lol what Shame, with Lollipop out, you think users will be satisfied with this very very late update?
- RoS
  February 26, 2015
  - Marco Lancaster
    February 28, 2015
    Indeed. But still unrespectfull a expensive phone, with high-end specs, and the open sources from the manufactures of SoC, still not providing uptades.
    - balcobomber25
      March 4, 2015
      How is it disrespectful for them to update a device? It may not be the update you want but they are still updating it. They could be like many other Chinese brands and just release products and forget about them.
- balcobomber25
  February 28, 2015
Steve B
February 26, 2015
Great phone, brilliant camera, BUT the check for update feature on mine causes a system closure everytime. I presume/hope an OTA update won’t require that function?
Guest
February 26, 2015
Little preview of this update:
http://androidadvices.com/gionee-elife-e7-android-kitkat-update/
And there is some project on XDA for lollipop:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/elife-e7/general/elife-e7-discovery-elite-32-3-t3006957
it would be nice if someone can help in this project 🙂

Venci
February 26, 2015
only 2500mah battery + shit OS
I would go for Meizu m1 note, it has better battery(3100mah), processor(40k on antutu and x64) and OS.
The camera and 1gb more ram are not so important to me.
- MaxPower
  February 27, 2015
  Why would anyone need a better camera and more ram when you have 40k Antutu???? LOL
  Suddenly Antutu points became a feature to list on phone specs.
  - Venci
    February 28, 2015
    - kzm
      March 7, 2015
- RoS
  February 28, 2015
  According to review at gizchina.it battery is not bad. And the OS with changed launcher is also ok.
  - Venci
    February 28, 2015
    Not saying its a bad phone, just in my eyes Meizu M1 note is the better one.
- balcobomber25
  February 28, 2015
  An extra 1GB of RAM means a lot more than an antutu score or the fact that it is 64 bit in terms of the overall performance of the phone.
  - Venci
    March 1, 2015
    You shure? The android itself takes less than 1gb(lolipop takes 600mb) and if you don’t play games, i think its impossible to go over 2gb only with general browser, facebook, etc.
    - balcobomber25
      March 1, 2015
iKosh
February 26, 2015
Very good news. I’m thinking about buying this phone.
Marco Lancaster
February 26, 2015
Lol what Shame, with Lollipop out, you think users will be satisfied with this very very late update?
- Guest
  February 26, 2015
  Kitkat update is better than no update 🙂
- Marco Lancaster
  February 28, 2015
  Indeed. But still unrespectfull a expensive phone, with high-end specs, and the open sources from the manufactures of SoC, still not providing uptades.
- balcobomber25
  March 1, 2015
  If I owned the phone I would be very satisfied with this update.
- balcobomber25
  March 4, 2015
  How is it disrespectful for them to update a device? It may not be the update you want but they are still updating it. They could be like many other Chinese brands and just release products and forget about them.

Steve B
February 26, 2015
Great phone, brilliant camera, BUT the check for update feature on mine causes a system closure everytime. I presume/hope an OTA update won’t require that function?
Venci
February 26, 2015
only 2500mah battery + shit OS
I would go for Meizu m1 note, it has better battery(3100mah), processor(40k on antutu and x64) and OS.
The camera and 1gb more ram are not so important to me.
- MaxPower
  February 27, 2015
  Why would anyone need a better camera and more ram when you have 40k Antutu???? LOL
  Suddenly Antutu points became a feature to list on phone specs.
- Guest
  February 28, 2015
  According to review at gizchina.it battery is not bad. And the OS with changed launcher is also ok.
- Venci
  February 28, 2015
  feature ?
  Antutu is just a decent way of measuring processing power, thats it.
- Venci
  February 28, 2015
  Not saying its a bad phone, just in my eyes Meizu M1 note is the better one.
- balcobomber25
  March 1, 2015
  An extra 1GB of RAM means a lot more than an antutu score or the fact that it is 64 bit in terms of the overall performance of the phone.
- Venci
  March 1, 2015
  You shure? The android itself takes less than 1gb(lolipop takes 600mb) and if you don’t play games, i think its impossible to go over 2gb only with general browser, facebook, etc.
- balcobomber25
  March 1, 2015
  Yes I am sure that more RAM is more important than a benchmark score.
- kzm
  March 7, 2015
Muhammad Yasir
February 27, 2015