This week a number of Chinese phone brands made the short trip over to Hong Kong for the Global Source Mobile Electronics Fair. Among them was Elephone who showed a mystery 2K flagship phone to customers.
Elephone took up a large booth at the Hong Kong trade fair where they had on show some of their most popular phones along with some upcoming devices like the Elephone P7000, Elephone G9 and a new mystery device.
We had heard rumours that Elephone would be releasing another high end device this year, but didn’t really have the details until today when our source sent us photos of the show and specification details of this upcoming Elephone beast.
According to our source this new Elephone (seen in gold on the photos) features a 2K display, 4GB RAM, touch ID fingerprint security, and an Intel processor marking the first time Elephone have moved away from Mediatek. Our source goes on to tell us that both Android 5.0 and Windows 10 will be available for this phone! It’s unsure if this will be a dual boot set up or if two versions of the phone with alternate OS will be available.
In the camera department Elephone will be using a Sony IMX 230 21 mega-pixel sensor on the rear, the front camera details are on unknown.
The above render seems to show quite a slim phone with alloy body and narrow bezels. We have reached out to Elephone official to see if we can get further details and possibly a name and launch date for this new device.
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Cast your mind back to August 2014 and the P 1000 – didn’t happen. The P4000 didn’t happen. Don’t hold your breath! New soc maker = new problems because they have no experience with them. New OS = problems for same reason. They’ve struggled with lollipop like many other Chinese manufacturers.
Just saying…
Oh oh ignore that. Now I get you. Maybe you are right maybe they’ll prove u wrong.
Yes, I meant they have no experience of working with Intel, but the outcome would depend largely on Intel support.
I sincerely hope that they DO prove me wrong!
Chinese developers seem to get better and better each year on providing a sort of stable Android version for their MediaTek phones. Now with another SoC you are totally right on fearing they might struggle again. On the other hand, knowing Intel..they could start mayor campaigns to introduce easy programming for the Intel Soc.
The P4000 was an OEM problem, the Zeaplus M4 which was essentially the same phone was also cancelled.
That’s interesting, demonstrates how complex the phone industry is there. I guess some brands never actually make a device themselves, for all I know, Elephone may not even have a production line of their own, just warehouses and packaging facilities.
Most brands don’t make the phones themsleves they use what are called OEM’s. For the Elephone P4000 the OEM was KVD, which also made the No.1 Mi4, Doogee Hitman and a few other Mi4 clones. KVD actually owns the Doogee brand. Apple and Xiaomi use Foxconn to manufacture their phones. Gionee is both an OEM and a brand.
The brand (Xiaomi, Elephone etc) designs the phones, selects the components etc. The OEM builds and packages it.
Thanks, do you know what Mlais position is? And perhaps that also explains why for example ulefone had advertised the Be progressing with a Sony 13mp camera then had to apologise for some only getting 8mp ov. Though I thought ulefone were an oem themselves.
I have two thoughts on the Ulefone Sony fiasco:
1. They originally intended to order Sony sensors and at the last minute changed it for some unknown reason. The marketing team was never told about the change and went ahead advertising a Sony sensor.
2. They outright lied and hoped no one would catch them. Wouldn’t be the first time a Chinese phone company stretched the truth.
Ulefone seems to be very open and honest with the community since they were caught so it really could have been an honest mistake or could have been deceit. I have no clue with Ulefone or Mlais. Often very little is advertised about which OEM the company uses. Some brands will use multiple OEM’s for different products.