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Elephone P9000 shows up running deca-core Mediatek chip

AndiJune 23, 2015

Elephone P7000 and P8000 owners get ready to riot, here comes details of the Elephone P9000!

Elephone have risen to fame rather quickly. Their combination of speed and price has really helped the brand jump over rivals and become one of the dominant phone makers in the Chinese tech space, but can this method continue?

Elephone certainly seem to think so as we are already seeing specs for an upcoming Elephone P9000 phone! Just this year fans patiently waited for the P7000 to launch only for it to be superseded by the P8000, and the same is going to happen again with the P9000!

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According to early details, the Elephone P9000 will boast a deca-core Helio X20 chipset, 4GB RAM and 20.7 mega-pixel main camera! impressive hardware once again, but will their build quality be improved this time around and what about ROM optimisation? We certainly hope so with the suggested retail price of $499.99!

The rest of the specs look similar to current Elephone devices and include a 5.5-inch FHD display, LTE, 3100mAh battery and support for 128GB SD cards.

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What do you think of this news? Does the prospect of another Elephone get you excited or are you getting fed up with all these ‘coming soon’ phones?

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- A4i
  June 23, 2015
  And why not, if the new SoC is pin-compatible. All the work a company needs to do is to load the soldering robot with the updated component.
  - Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
    June 23, 2015
    It’s ridiculous for sure, because they can’t even handle the needed supplies for P7000 and P8000.

Chris Stapledon
June 23, 2015
“….support for 128GB SD cards”.
I’ve always been a bit confused about this. I have 2 MT6752 phones (iOcean Rock and Ecoo E04). Both of these handle my 128GB SD card with no issues whatsoever, despite specs saying they can only handle 64GB.
- AHappyKoalaBear
  June 23, 2015
  it’s a common thing, same goes for brands like Samsung, HTC and LG, ‘officially’ they only support 64gb, but 128 works just fine
  - Chris Stapledon
    June 23, 2015
    Just seems strange behavior from the manufacturers though when considering their usual MO of exaggerating the phone’s capabilities. Seems like they are missing a trick by not stating that the phones are compatible with 128GB cards.
    - Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
      June 23, 2015
      I think I have an idea. Even my last year phone A850+ works just fine with 64GB, I bet it can run a 128GB too, but if you look at the specs it supports up to 32GB. This year I’m using a K3 Note which officially supports up to 64GB if I’m not mistaken, but I’m currently enjoying a 128 card! You just need to format it to FAT32. It’s even partitioned because I like to use Link2SD. May be that’s the case: 64GB and more cards are usually coming factory formatted on ExFat which many phones don’t support, so manufacturers take that fact and mark the phone as “microsd up to 64” which is actually wrong, but yet it’s practical because they won’t get all the stupid emails and calls to customer support by users talking shit like “Why my phone is not working with that card”.
- balcobomber25
  June 23, 2015
  The problem is certain 128GB SD cards might not be read by the system which would lead people to return their phones claiming they are defective. Rather than have that happen they just say 64 is the max. I actually had a few 128gb cheapo SD Cards that couldn’t be read by one of my phones, whereas ones from Sandisk could.

Reggieinthemix
June 23, 2015
- Roger
  June 23, 2015
  That will be next month’s phone. They’ll be up to the P16000 by Christmas.
  - Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
    June 23, 2015
- Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
  June 23, 2015
  Dude, I bet we’ll see P10000 in just about 3 months, it’s like september, so you must expect a P11000 to be your Christmas gift. 😀
WOOHer
June 23, 2015
Elephone for $500… Are you kidding? I think this brand doesn’t have enough reputation to sell their products for such prices.
- Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
  June 23, 2015
  I’d rather shop a LG G4 on sale for probably the same price, but 100000% more guaranteed quality.
  - Muhammad Yasir
    June 23, 2015
    - Steve B
      June 23, 2015
      Just ordered a Meizu M2 Note based on it’s Samsung sensor pics and vid samples. Looks great for the money. Not bothered by performance drop over M1, SD card support bigger plus.
      - Muhammad Yasir
        June 23, 2015
        u sure bro ? the M1 was wayy better in cam dept … the dudes here at gizchina.com were drooling over it like CRAZY !
        u shoulda asked around these forums for good cam phones under $200 before making such a move.
        anyhow , goodluck to you 🙂
        Steve B
        June 23, 2015
        it’s the exact same camera as far as i’m aware (confirmed by another website, with performance and focus improvements), samples look great, especially video. already have Iuni U2 and Gionee E7 so covered for cams, but wanted to try an imx214 or Isocell. was set to get a Cubot X11, but they havent optimised the IMX214 very well, so changed to the Meizu.
    - Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
      June 23, 2015
      - Muhammad Yasir
        June 23, 2015
        Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
        June 23, 2015
- That’s what I was thinking… The quality in their products just isn’t there…
- ARUN SUBRAMANIAN
  June 23, 2015
  400$ with international shipping..that would have been nice..assuming that phone lives up to expectation of flagship.
Michael Ogbonnaya
June 23, 2015
Are we still in April? I’d think this is some kinda April fool. Somebody please tell me I’m not being punked.
A P9000 already? I really am scared of how fast these guys are churning out out smartphones. Hardware is supercool but what about the software side of things? How is that gonna perform? Laggy? or Buttery smooth? Time will tell.

Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
June 23, 2015
Oh man…here we go again. xD
Adam Irvine
June 23, 2015
Silly price… Not a chance!
Rob
June 23, 2015
This was announced about 4 days ago with a ‘supposed’ release date in mid October. Considering Mediatek won’t be releasing this chip till December with consumer devices arriving in Q1 2016 this isn’t going to happen. Secondly why would this ‘new flagship’ have a FHD display when their P8000 ‘flagship’ has a 2K display? Considering the GPU in the X20 is around twice as powerful this doesn’t make any sense. This will more likely arrive October 2016 when everyone will be talking about the 12 core X30!!!

dax
June 23, 2015
I’m waiting for Elephone P10000. Should be here by next week
- Teddybear
  June 23, 2015
  SCORED 😀
- Yeti hand
  June 23, 2015
  You’re a bit off, I’m expeting the details about the p10000 to come out by the end of the day
- Naaga Viper
  June 23, 2015
- Maybe next hour they will release P10000. LOL. 😀
- Yeti hand
  June 26, 2015
Mrinal
June 23, 2015
- Tizz
  June 23, 2015

Steven Fox
June 23, 2015
Won`t it be great if someone finally offers a 128GB phone? Storage is very cheap these days, and for a phone that costs this much, I`d rather have 128GB, than 1440p screen.
Knowing this is Elephone it might be that this phone will never see the light of day, or at least not with those specs/price.
- balcobomber25
  June 23, 2015
  It seems like every area a phone can improve on has evolved over the past few years, except storage space.
  - Steven Fox
    June 23, 2015
    Right on! I`ve had a 32GB phone for two years, now for 400$ and above you get a 16GB phone, that`s just plain ridiculous, you have to pay 100$ more for 16GB more storage, which costs 15$ max.

David Košič
June 23, 2015
For that kind of money people are better of going to their local shop and buying a phone from an expensive brand.
Muhammad Yasir
June 23, 2015
- - Muhammad Yasir
    June 24, 2015
    oh i am and believe me , im from the same city (Karachi) where about 2000+(and counting) people have died from Heat Stroke.
    I don’t venture too far out from the house and while the local Electric Supply organization is doing EVERYTHING to kill me (low voltage around 130 v , 2 / 3 phases are offline for over a month so Air COnditioners dont work at all) but im still going strong somehow. The heat’s kinda making me have some melting feeling but i guess i’ll live , especially if rain comes around sooner…

Xalis
June 23, 2015
Hahaha, nice 1st of April joke.
Owsley_66
June 23, 2015
I’ll buy it if they let me make payments. Zero down, zero % interest, with 5 years to pay and I’m in.
Freeje
June 23, 2015
All words and no action. They should change their name to Vaporphone.
balcobomber25
June 23, 2015
Instead of releasing a new mediocre phone every month that’s marginally better than the last concentrate on developing one good phone.

LeeJ0HNS
June 23, 2015
gonna wait till next mid-year for ammmm… P9900000000000 ^_^ LOL
PaulBV
June 23, 2015
I cancelled my P7000 order and perhaps I will not buy any Elephone product at least in the next year! They do not seem a serious company (pre-funding their low quality phones with our pre-orders 🙁
mike fiera
June 23, 2015
- Muhammad Yasir
  June 23, 2015

Mobyspace
June 23, 2015
Elephone has a dream that one day with the release of one model after another, they’ll be able to take our $$$$$.
Dream on elephone.
Zet
June 23, 2015
some pleople waiting P7000 and elephone releasing P8000 soon and building P9000… is a horrible strategic… many phones per month with 0% optimization after released… Many new phones in a short time… G9 , VOWNEY, S2, S2 PLUS, P7000, P8000, P9000.. and maybe i not remember some phone………………
Tawse
June 23, 2015
Any chance of fixing the camera on the P7000 yet?

Riccardo Benzoni
June 23, 2015
this thing of releasing a smartphone a week is seriously going out of control…
Babidi
June 24, 2015
I think the people working for Elephone have Elephant brains which is why instead of providing support for their already released product they just keep on releasing new phones one after another.
I think someone on their marketing division is thinking like this, “If we release new phones every 2 months and don’t provide support after that, customers will be forced to buy our newly released phones.” Seriously? Do they really believe this is how buyers think?

Manish
June 24, 2015
Why wait? Buy the Asus Zenfone 2 with 4GB RAM and other comparable specifications now!
Tremaine Underwood
June 24, 2015
Aside from the fact they release phones faster then Usain Bolt running a 100m, I am really keen to see this X20 in a device. Especially combined with an FHD screen(I think most of us here agree anything more is overkill), it should fly. Well, provided they don’t bugger the software up too badly 😉

I’m confused isn’t the Helio X20 meant to drive a 2K display?
mariebrewis
June 26, 2015
Another fail from Elephone:( I will not buy it. https://www.facebook.com/groups/358517771012185/permalink/379536238910338/
Yeti hand
June 26, 2015

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