Elephone are building a phone that will sport a Helio P10 chipset but may only cost $99! Keep reading for more Elephone M3 details.
The sub $100 phone market is really hotting up. Not only do Cyanogen see the Sub $100 market as an area they will see impressive growth but Chinese phone makers are cashing in on recent component savings to build low-cost phones that carry impressive hardware.
Take the UMi Rome for example with a low $89 RRP, 3GB RAM and AMOLED display its a phone that has the potential to disrupt the market, but not if Elephone can help it. In response the UMi Rome, Elephone say that their Elephone M3 will ship for just $99, yet carry the much more impressive and potent Helio P10 chipset!
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What’s more the Elephone M3 will come with Android 6, sport a Type C USB and will have a full metal body! Not bad at all.
With Elephone and UMi at each others throats we cannot wait to see what other phone makers like JiaYu, Oukitel etc will launch at a similar low price.
too early! This is the release date of the vowney! I think the very end of 2016 is more realistic !! haha
It`s a tough market. Getting more and more overcrowded by the minute. At least Elephone have improved their build quality.
The Trunk sub-brand is receiveing rave reviews for it`s price.
When did they improve their build quality? Because a friend of mine has a p8000 and the light/pressure spots on the panel are absolutely terrible!
p8000 is a horrible phone. period. it doesnt even have gorilla or dragontrail glass.
can confirm that. And that p7000 was probably the worst failure regarding expectation/reality ratio from any chinese phone… they simply cannot deliver what they would.
i honestly feel TERRIBLY sorry for elephone … its like they’re missing something … something that goes deep to the core.
their concept is superb … probably better than MOST chinese companies… whoever is giving the ideas , has a great mind with wonderful diversity BUT the team/people tasked with APPLYING that concept (say the hardware and software engineers at elephone) are absolutely SHAMBOLIC at their jobs , they mess up the idea , the concept diagram completely … and then there’s the manufacturing delays -_- !
its like Elephone is a land of a hell lot of wasted potential …
Anyone remember this gem?
I honestly don’t know what you people are talking about, 2 months of Elephone P8000. The only issue I found is lack of 5GHz modem support and the ridiculously bad camera on low light.
In everything else it’s probably one of the best offerings from chinese phones. Great support from the community (most chinese phones don’t have that, especially cheap one), great build quality and battery…
I didn’t care about Elephone in the past, but they obviously produce some of the best per $ phones as of late… I actually feel sorry who automatically dismiss them leading them to much worse phones for greater cost … I don’t get that behaviour at all (every phone should be judged independently)…
Well, he should have tried the P2000 or previous Elephones, where the phone would go completely dead within 2-3 months, or battery would stop charging.
For phones over 150$, stick to the known brands like Xiaomi, Meizu, Zoppo, Gionee and Jiayu as you are guaranteed better build quality.
Three years ago there weren’t any affordable offerings from these companies, now you can get the M2 or the M2 Note, or Redmi 2 Note for peanuts, why would you buy Elephone P8000 over that? Because of the extra 1 GB of RAM?
I bought a P6000 (non pro) for my girlfriend some month ago for about 110USD…
The ROM was completely unbloated, really snappy and came pre rooted, the built quality is very solid, the battery holds a whole day without charging, GPS is working fast and without any flaws, speaking quality is good and generally the whole phone doesn’t have a single issue – if there is anything one might argue that the camera is only “ok-ish” but bitching about that would be ridiculous given the price point
yup, can confirm that. had one in hands for a friend and noticed like 4-5 spots when was booting…he returned it the day after.
Improved their quality?? Not according to any of the forums I belong too, the quality is still shite.
You should have seen those forums 3-4 years ago mate! Now they are mostly complaining about camera quality, not being as promised on a 69-129$ phones, or that he dropped it and it broke, but shouldnt have.
People must realize that they are getting what they payed for.
will release by the time i would have changed 2 or 3 smartphones already :’D !
annddd wait for it
OH ooohh , WTH are they doing ?! why are they cannibalizing the Elephone Ivory sales … which , also btw , HASNT been released yet ?!
Hey people from Elephone, just dont make the same mistake Umi did and please add 3G and/or LTE bands for America
my older MX4 had 4g in my homecoyntry and the other 6795 phones i tried here work too (its sad that the coverage from the operators is awful tho)
The SoC is Medatek’s. The Helio X10 SoC already supports 3G (and several mediatek designs before it did too), and was an earlier design (it also supports several 4g/lte bands, but none for the major US carriers). The Helio X20 also supports 4g/lte, including support for the US, and is a contemporary design to the P10. The Helio P10 in this phone should at least support 3G and 4G in most places outside of the US. It may even support 4g/lte in the US (depending on if it gets the same controller as the X10 or the X20).
The X10 has full support for US LTE bands as does just about every other chip released. Most phones don’t include the necessary antenna to pick up those bands because they don’t sell in the US and those bands aren’t used anywhere else. All modern chips will support all modern bands, the newest ones will even support cdma bands, but the phone manufacturer still has to use certain antenna to pick those up.
no, .. I think you’re wrong, the X10 does not. It has only 3 4g lte band/channel pairs that are supported, at least according to some rather detailed spec sheets that I have seen…
The Blu Pure XL has a X10 chip and full support for US LTE networks. The X10 can support every LTE band. In order for phones to pick up those LTE bands it has to include the necessary antenna, not all phone antenna are the same.
I wonder if they will ever learn to make a good quality device with good support for a good price as xiaomi does.
nice joke
you know i can keep doing that for a long time
There’s one major difference, Umi will actually release their phone, Elephone will tease it for the next 8 months.
I’m not entirely sure to tell you the truth, a lot of the times the Dash and Studio series don’t have a Gionee counterpart, they are phones designed a built by Gionee specifically for other markets outside of India/China. The Vivo and Life series are usually direct Gionee models.
Their other OEMs (I can tell from ROM build numbers/OTA servers) are Tinno, Tianyu/K-touch, and LongCheer (the same company that makes Android One). Easy to check ro.fota.oem= in build.prop
Yea they use a variety of OEM’s for their cheaper phones and their Windows phones.
Ok, got u and thank u very much man. I was just curious by the way as i learned from u that blus r rebranded phones in the past.
U da boss here…lol
The Blu Life and Vivo series are almost entirely rebranded Gionee’s. The rest are made by a variety of OEM’s, some are made specifically for Blu others are sold under multiple brand names.
Another elephone that wont be released until long after it was relevant…
It does NOT seem to me Elephone is trustworthy enough as a brand.
release date: q3 2016 knowing elephone track record
too early! This is the release date of the vowney! I think the very end of 2016 is more realistic !! haha
indeed! elephone are liars. much promising just to counter other brands and win buyers
It`s a tough market. Getting more and more overcrowded by the minute. At least Elephone have improved their build quality.
The Trunk sub-brand is receiveing rave reviews for it`s price.
When did they improve their build quality? Because a friend of mine has a p8000 and the light/pressure spots on the panel are absolutely terrible!
eh im all out of elephone/dogee jokes – that means you dont have those either , its kinda not funny anymore