Elephone have released their first update for the Elephone Vowney, but don’t wait for an OTA as this is a manual update.
The update for the Elephone Vowney is still based on Android 5.1 and can be downloaded from the official Elephone forums here. At this time Elephone haven’t provided a change log for the update so we’ll assume it’s a minor update with just a few stability and perofmance fixes.
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While I had the chance to speak to Elephone I also asked if rumours that the Vowney was to be cancelled and replaced with the Elephone P9000 were true (apparently these rumours have sparked up again). Elephone say its not true and manufacture of the Vowney will re-commence after the Chinese New Year celebrations.
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They still haven’t begun manufacturing these lol?
Lol …. I couldn’t help laughing too.
Re-commence sorry
That is still bad. This is a phone that was originally supposed to launch in June, they should have had more than enough stock manufactured by this point.
If I were them I would have cancelled and gone with the Vowney Pro as the Vowney.
The rumour which was pretty much truth, was the Vowney was to be replaced with the P9000 Edge.
I still think the Vowney hardware is good value even if they dropped the e-touch button and put it in the P9000. The big test now is if the community surrounding it can grow. It could be crippled by lack owner-base, or Elephone simply being restrictive with software updates.
In short supplies. Customers will be more furious when they read that production will start ‘again’ after the 15th of February. Note many are waiting for the 31st of January for their orders.
Many are going to cancel their orders and buy one of the numerous better phones available.
Now imagine those resellers that have been holding up customers with the pre-sale bs and have to refund most of these customers and take a bad feedback for something they have no responsibility whatsoever.
Could lead to a lot of resellers dropping Elephone from their sites. This could end up being a PR nightmare for Elephone.
looks like gizchina shop is taking up the slak, started to sell the m3 presale
There are photos of the boxes being delivered and phones tested at Elephonemobile.com ?!
The Ivory and Vowney were scheduled to be cancelled before the new year but so many people had pre-paid for Vowneys they decided to fulfil orders. The ivory more or less had no orders.
Vowney stock is currently non-existent with mainly special clients and those threatening to cancel orders, getting the phones.
It’s good to see they are finally supporting updates.
What good is an update if you can’t buy the phone? It’s always something with Elephone, they take one step forward and two steps backwards.
balcobomber25 you’re like a guy that say I don’t like getting muddy when offered to go dirt karting, yet you can’t help being near the track watching others have fun and getting mud all over yourself.
No I am the guy who would buy the kart with the best history and reliability. You are the one who would buy the one with the flashiest paint scheme regardless of history. I would be driving past you as your shiny new toy is stuck in the mud.
Wow, I could feel the heat of that burn all the way over here!
no, he’s just an employee. he’s paid to drive the kart stuck in the mud. He just seems to like to ashame himself or maybe he thinks he can fool people who know more than him and would never buy an elephone when xiaomi, meizu, letv and the likes are available.
Hope this drama will finally end soon.
Lol, I totally pictured that!
I was picturing a kart driven by a moose overtaking another kart driven by a lawn gnome.
That was hilarious
if i win the lottery i would give you all of the money immediately these battles between you and the employee is AMAZING :’D, keep up the good work
LOL
Oh yeah, their good hearts does not allow them to cancel this insanely overpriced thing… They’re doing this for us customers!
Liek if u kry evrytiem
Becoming worse than gamestop could be possible after all…
Worse than gamestop?
“Elephone say its not true and manufacture of the Vowney will re-commence after the Chinese New Year celebrations.” This brings up a different question, especially in light of the lack of marshmallow for current vowneys —
(do you think) are they going to start up with a freshened Vowney line, or just go back to the same one with the lollipop-based rom?
They still haven’t begun manufacturing these lol?
Lol …. I couldn’t help laughing too.
Re-commence sorry
In short supplies. Customers will be more furious when they read that production will start ‘again’ after the 15th of February. Note many are waiting for the 31st of January for their orders.
Now imagine those resellers that have been holding up customers with the pre-sale bs and have to refund most of these customers and take a bad feedback for something they have no responsibility whatsoever.
That is still bad. This is a phone that was originally supposed to launch in June, they should have had more than enough stock manufactured by this point.
Many are going to cancel their orders and buy one of the numerous better phones available.
Could lead to a lot of resellers dropping Elephone from their sites. This could end up being a PR nightmare for Elephone.
If I were them I would have cancelled and gone with the Vowney Pro as the Vowney.
The rumour which was pretty much truth, was the Vowney was to be replaced with the P9000 Edge.
I still think the Vowney hardware is good value even if they dropped the e-touch button and put it in the P9000. The big test now is if the community surrounding it can grow. It could be crippled by lack owner-base, or Elephone simply being restrictive with software updates.
looks like gizchina shop is taking up the slak, started to sell the m3 presale
There are photos of the boxes being delivered and phones tested at Elephonemobile.com ?!
The Ivory and Vowney were scheduled to be cancelled before the new year but so many people had pre-paid for Vowneys they decided to fulfil orders. The ivory more or less had no orders.
Vowney stock is currently non-existent with mainly special clients and those threatening to cancel orders, getting the phones.
It’s good to see they are finally supporting updates.
What good is an update if you can’t buy the phone? It’s always something with Elephone, they take one step forward and two steps backwards.
balcobomber25 you’re like a guy that say I don’t like getting muddy when offered to go dirt karting, yet you can’t help being near the track watching others have fun and getting mud all over yourself.
No I am the guy who would buy the kart with the best history and reliability. You are the one who would buy the one with the flashiest paint scheme regardless of history. I would be driving past you as your shiny new toy is stuck in the mud.
Oh yeah, their good hearts does not allow them to cancel this insanely overpriced thing… They’re doing this for us customers!
Liek if u kry evrytiem
Wow, I could feel the heat of that burn all the way over here!
no, he’s just an employee. he’s paid to drive the kart stuck in the mud. He just seems to like to ashame himself or maybe he thinks he can fool people who know more than him and would never buy an elephone when xiaomi, meizu, letv and the likes are available.
Hope this drama will finally end soon.
Lol, I totally pictured that!
I was picturing a kart driven by a moose overtaking another kart driven by a lawn gnome.
That was hilarious
if i win the lottery i would give you all of the money immediately these battles between you and the employee is AMAZING :’D, keep up the good work
LOL
Becoming worse than gamestop could be possible after all…
Worse than gamestop?
“Elephone say its not true and manufacture of the Vowney will re-commence after the Chinese New Year celebrations.” This brings up a different question, especially in light of the lack of marshmallow for current vowneys —
(do you think) are they going to start up with a freshened Vowney line, or just go back to the same one with the lollipop-based rom?
i like the drama elephone brings, they make things spicy, if they were to shut down i would truly miss them :'(, i am a fan of the company not for the phone but the drama lol
Yah I will also truly MISS them as there will not even be any shitty Beta roms. Actually already given up on them and my last 3 phones for my family have been RedMi.
i like the drama elephone brings, they make things spicy, if they were to shut down i would truly miss them :'(, i am a fan of the company not for the phone but the drama lol
Yah I will also truly MISS them as there will not even be any shitty Beta roms. Actually already given up on them and my last 3 phones for my family have been RedMi.
my wife has an ulefone paris. as from 3 months she got allready 4 updates by OTA and Marshmallow is around the corner. I with my elephone P6000 is still waiting for the promised lollipop by OTA for more then a year. shamefull elephone!! But I know the reason: IF you do it by yourself and somethings going wrong….. it’s your own fault!
Hahaha. Elephone never gives Updates… Only some Beta shit, you need to install yourself!! I have an ECOO E04 Plus and all the ROMs for this phone are really bad! The phone is a complete shit and the company doesn’t care! Thank you Elephone for “stealing” my $185… (ECOO is made by Elephone)
You may laugh now but in 2-3 years you ll miss them for sure. All the promises ,the artificial hype ,the ‘flaghsips’ of the month, the crowdfounding ,the talking about something that never was or never will be. They bring romanticism to the industry, promise you the moon from the sky and then fail to deliver.Their optimism is their worst enemy.I apreciate their passion and their dreams and i imagine them making plans about teasers of the 4 th flagship of the year while other release decent phones without all the noise. I love the news about them and just that.
my wife has an ulefone paris. as from 3 months she got allready 4 updates by OTA and Marshmallow is around the corner. I with my elephone P6000 is still waiting for the promised lollipop by OTA for more then a year. shamefull elephone!! But I know the reason: IF you do it by yourself and somethings going wrong….. it’s your own fault!
Hahaha. Elephone never gives Updates… Only some Beta shit, you need to install yourself!! I have an ECOO E04 Plus and all the ROMs for this phone are really bad! The phone is a complete shit and the company doesn’t care! Thank you Elephone for “stealing” my $185… (ECOO is made by Elephone)
You may laugh now but in 2-3 years you ll miss them for sure. All the promises ,the artificial hype ,the ‘flaghsips’ of the month, the crowdfounding ,the talking about something that never was or never will be. They bring romanticism to the industry, promise you the moon from the sky and then fail to deliver.Their optimism is their worst enemy.I apreciate their passion and their dreams and i imagine them making plans about teasers of the 4 th flagship of the year while other release decent phones without all the noise. I love the news about them and just that.
Salve a tutti, mi rivolgo ai clienti italiani che hanno effettuato il preordine per il Vowney: chiedo cortesemente se c’è qualcuno che ha ricevuto il cellulare e presso quale rivenditore ha effettuato l’acquisto. Io ho utilizzato elephonemobile.com e dopo oltre quattro mesi dall’ordine, visto il nulla assoluto,dubito dell’autenticità di questo sito. Ringraziando tutti anticipatamente, auguro una buona giornata………..
Salve a tutti, mi rivolgo ai clienti italiani che hanno effettuato il preordine per il Vowney: chiedo cortesemente se c’è qualcuno che ha ricevuto il cellulare e presso quale rivenditore ha effettuato l’acquisto. Io ho utilizzato elephonemobile.com e dopo oltre quattro mesi dall’ordine, visto il nulla assoluto,dubito dell’autenticità di questo sito. Ringraziando tutti anticipatamente, auguro una buona giornata………..
still waiting for a firmware update Elephone Vowney until now, probably until doomsday also no updates>. <whenever I want to buy china products will I see elephone voynew, to remind me not to be disappointed for the second time
still waiting for a firmware update Elephone Vowney until now, probably until doomsday also no updates>. <whenever I want to buy china products will I see elephone voynew, to remind me not to be disappointed for the second time