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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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 🙂
Very good news. I’m thinking about buying this phone.
Lol what Shame, with Lollipop out, you think users will be satisfied with this very very late update?
Indeed. But still unrespectfull a expensive phone, with high-end specs, and the open sources from the manufactures of SoC, still not providing uptades.
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.
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?
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 🙂