Elephone S7 brings some new functions

The latest Elephone model Elephone S7 is already available in the presales and on paper looks like an absolute bargain for the presale price of $139.99. Metrics tons of actual and virtual papers were already used to write all there is to know about the phone, but there are some little new functions and gimmicks that are still worth focusing on, hence the following video.

So what are we talking about ? Well for starters Elephone decided it’s time to take better care of the customer’s eyesight so the Elephone S7 has the full setup of support functions for that including color temperature adjustments, frame adjustments or night screen mode. For better controls you can use new intelligent gestures like the three-finger slide and for more battery there are some new power saving modes to choose from.

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To me the most interesting function is the Split screen mode allowing you some windowed freedom for multiple apps running. Not bad at all. And last but not least are the new E-touch 2.0 features with some customization available. Check out the video to have a better idea about all of the mentioned gimmicks.

So a phone with Helio X20, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB of storage and a fancy design is up for grabs for the special presale price of $139.99 in here.

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Ying Hua
I'm an avid gamer and a bit of a Ninja when it comes to gadgets and technology. When I'm not busy with the latest Android and iOS games and I can be found writing at Gizchina.com.

Tremaine Underwood
October 22, 2016
Oh god this is sad, do you know how blatant this looks to your regular readers??? Everyday we have to have ‘so called’ news about these guys You realize any new readers take the stuff you guys write as a recommendation?
- Lazar Prodanovic
  October 23, 2016
  - goodwill
    October 23, 2016
    The problem is elephone creating the elejob thing on their website that attracts rats to earn extra pennies. Therefore resulting in this. I’d find a different advertiser if I were gizchina. Elephone will just bring them down eventually.

Giovanni
October 22, 2016
I had heard about it from the time of the split-screen, but see it in the video made me realize even more what may be a very useful feature …
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 22, 2016
  FAKE PROFILE hahahahahaahahaha just checked your profile, you only comment on Elephone articles, gtfo split screen is a native android 7 nougat feature, elephone make shitty phones with no support
- VMortens
  October 24, 2016
  Nubia Z7 Max – released 2 years ago, has this feature added in a way more advanced and developed form. Keep trying you marketing troll.

Smart Mobile Phones
October 22, 2016
Does it support NFC ?
OverPlayed
October 22, 2016
so they are adding more new functionality to the s7 phone? it is great to hear that as every single feature counts and some of the shown new settings and features are really nice!
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 22, 2016
  hi, you joined the same day as Thomas Nelson, NICE FAKE PROFILE YOU GOT THERE, ELEPHONE SUCK !!!!
  - Omer
    October 22, 2016

October 22, 2016
Well, most of the features they have shown off are already built in into most of android marshmallow devices, but it is nice that they also added some other functionality, like the blue light setting for instance, it will definitely be useful when you use your phone late in the evening and your eyes are tired!
Thomas Nelson
October 22, 2016
I like that the company has allowed the marketing team to show off the phone a bit more and show us more of the new features and cool tricks they have included in the new s7 model
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 22, 2016
  - Thomas Nelson
    October 22, 2016
    Yea, whatever, you just gotta hate on every comment and false accuse people? 🙂 That’s some rude bs you are doing… What is about elephone, they have stepped up their game, haven’t u read all the articles about new phones, new software and stuff, oh right, sorry, you were too busy searching for people to accuse and places to hate comment everywhere. You deserve a medal for being a total idiot! (Send me your address, i am gonna buy and send you the medal for free! :))
    - AHappyKoalaBear
      October 22, 2016
      well the fucking problem is the flood of new phones, the reason big companies only release a couple of phones each year is to maintain quality and support, Elephone release a fucking phone every week to even stay a bit relevant, they are falling behind big time, thank god and can’t wait for them to go bankrupt
      - Thomas Nelson
        October 22, 2016
        Dude… if they had were anywhere near being bankrupt, they wouldn’t develop so many new devices, they wouldn’t have resources to develop updates to previous devices (like P9000 android N update coming next month for instance). We already have a concept render of a new phone for march 2017… so to think and say that they are “falling behind big” is quite wrong 🙂
        
        AHappyKoalaBear
        October 22, 2016
        “We already have a concept render of a new phone for march 2017” lol “We?” that explains all the fake profiles that are being created on the same day.
        goodwill
        October 23, 2016
        No point of arguing with them or him if they are the same person. You’re already better than them. They take spare change from elejob. haha
        Thomas Nelson
        October 25, 2016
        We as community 🙂 We as we got shown the render, thus we already have the render 🙂
      - Radz Rastas
        October 23, 2016
        Hahaha – you don’t sound like a happy Koala to me.
        But keep on ranting , you and the other Ele haters crack me up.
- Lazar Prodanovic
  October 22, 2016
Katrin Barth
October 22, 2016
You gotta love these articles, they really inform us about the newest stuff that is happening in the chinese tech world. Anyway, back to the topic – this company has done a great job presenting their new phone so far ??
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 22, 2016
  nice fake profile you got there, Elephone suck donkey b*lls, no support, shitty build quality, they are irrelevant these days
  - Thomas Nelson
    October 22, 2016
    How does it feel to up your own comments? You are a complete idiot, hating on everything… Good luck in life, i am sure you will be a successful person with that attitude! 🙂
- Lazar Prodanovic
  October 22, 2016

AHappyKoalaBear
October 22, 2016
Gizchina, you guys were my go to place for china phone news, these days I get spammed with Elephone adds and news, I’m leaving for good, I want objective independent news, not this bullcrap Elephone news every f*cking day of the week, split screen is a native android 7 feature ffs.
I’m out

Girolamo
October 22, 2016
I took on gearbest the Gold version with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM at 136.22 € shipped, with rapid delivery in 7 days and without customs costs.
Then if arrive me in 1 month, I don’t care, I am aware and I’ll wait to receive it, I can not wait waited far too long …
Tremaine Underwood
October 22, 2016
Oh god this is sad, do you know how blatant this looks to your regular readers??? Everyday we have to have ‘so called’ news about these guys You realize any new readers take the stuff you guys write as a recommendation?
- Lazar Prodanovic
  October 23, 2016
  That’s why we regular readers are making fuss about those obviously fake comments.
- goodwill
  October 23, 2016
  The problem is elephone creating the elejob thing on their website that attracts rats to earn extra pennies. Therefore resulting in this. I’d find a different advertiser if I were gizchina. Elephone will just bring them down eventually.

Maya~
October 22, 2016
the phone looks great, now they have shown us what they have added to the phone, all we have left to do is to decide whether or not we want this phone 🙂
- VMortens
  October 24, 2016
  And you only add comments like this in every Elephone article…
  We don’t want your phones, believe me.
Giovanni
October 22, 2016
I had heard about it from the time of the split-screen, but see it in the video made me realize even more what may be a very useful feature …
- VMortens
  October 24, 2016
  Nubia Z7 Max – released 2 years ago, has this feature added in a way more advanced and developed form. Keep trying you marketing troll.

Smart Mobile Phones
October 22, 2016
Does it support NFC ?
Frank
October 22, 2016
I don’t trust Elephone after the company lied about weight and camera sensor of elephone S3
- goodwill
  October 23, 2016
  They can’t even get whatsapp to work on their S3 still properly still. haha, Something that people should know
Lazar Prodanovic
October 22, 2016
- goodwill
  October 23, 2016
  My advise to real readers. Lets all migrate to Gizmochna. I’m liking gizchina less and less everyday. I just come now out of habits. But they are no longer in my bookmark so I’ll eventually stop coming here. haha
  - Pan
    October 23, 2016
    - Ivan Rusanov
      October 23, 2016
      Yeah, they deleted my comment two times, even if I took out the “offensive”, but censored words out. Pathetic.
  - X
    October 23, 2016
    That site is also full of ads and fake articles. The only site that I’ve seen so far that is honest about paid promotions is AndroidPolice (“promotion” or “ad” tag in the title, and highlighted message in the article), but it doesn’t have a lot of news about Chinese devices.
    P.S.: wow now they started moderating the comments section to prevent people from talking shit about this site. F*ck this, I’m out
    Go suck a umi d!ck
  - Ibrahim Bahakim
    October 23, 2016
    Yeah man. Same here.
    I only come here because I am used to open FB YT Gizchina etc…
    But it is not interesting at all anymore…
    ALL those ads and useless news. 🙁
    Barely see any good news or reviews </3
  - Fábio
    October 23, 2016
    Me too,
    See you in gizmo ?
    - goodwill
      October 24, 2016
      apparently the source code for le max 2 is out. so expect some good things to come. hehe
  - VMortens
    October 24, 2016
    Thing is, shortly after we do that Gizmo will turn into the same kind of mostly sponsored content website…
    Anyways, Linus seems to recently be way more active then Andi.
    For the moment I still stick to both websites.
    - goodwill
      October 24, 2016
      But at least we know ele doesnt have gizmo in their pockets tho. I think we can reason with linus, i think. haha. i mean, come on. an article on applock on ele?? that’s a new all time low. haha
OverPlayed
October 22, 2016
so they are adding more new functionality to the s7 phone? it is great to hear that as every single feature counts and some of the shown new settings and features are really nice!
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 22, 2016
  hi, you joined the same day as Thomas Nelson, NICE FAKE PROFILE YOU GOT THERE, ELEPHONE SUCK !!!!
- Omer
  October 22, 2016

October 22, 2016
Well, most of the features they have shown off are already built in into most of android marshmallow devices, but it is nice that they also added some other functionality, like the blue light setting for instance, it will definitely be useful when you use your phone late in the evening and your eyes are tired!
Thomas Nelson
October 22, 2016
I like that the company has allowed the marketing team to show off the phone a bit more and show us more of the new features and cool tricks they have included in the new s7 model
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 22, 2016
  nice fake profile, created on the 17th, gtfo Elephone suck, no support whatsoever
- Thomas Nelson
  October 22, 2016
  Yea, whatever, you just gotta hate on every comment and false accuse people? 🙂 That’s some rude bs you are doing… What is about elephone, they have stepped up their game, haven’t u read all the articles about new phones, new software and stuff, oh right, sorry, you were too busy searching for people to accuse and places to hate comment everywhere. You deserve a medal for being a total idiot! (Send me your address, i am gonna buy and send you the medal for free! :))
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 22, 2016
  well the fucking problem is the flood of new phones, the reason big companies only release a couple of phones each year is to maintain quality and support, Elephone release a fucking phone every week to even stay a bit relevant, they are falling behind big time, thank god and can’t wait for them to go bankrupt
- Thomas Nelson
  October 22, 2016
  Dude… if they had were anywhere near being bankrupt, they wouldn’t develop so many new devices, they wouldn’t have resources to develop updates to previous devices (like P9000 android N update coming next month for instance). We already have a concept render of a new phone for march 2017… so to think and say that they are “falling behind big” is quite wrong 🙂
- Lazar Prodanovic
  October 23, 2016
  Who are you trols?
- AHappyKoalaBear
  October 23, 2016
  “We already have a concept render of a new phone for march 2017” lol “We?” that explains all the fake profiles that are being created on the same day.
- Radz Rastas
  October 23, 2016
  Hahaha – you don’t sound like a happy Koala to me.
  But keep on ranting , you and the other Ele haters crack me up.
- goodwill
  October 23, 2016
  No point of arguing with them or just him if they are the same person with multiple accs. You’re already better than them. They take spare change from elejob. haha
- Thomas Nelson
  October 25, 2016
  We as community 🙂 We as we got shown the render, thus we already have the render 🙂 Should read the full comment, although if that comment was too complex for you to understand, well you shouldn’t jump to conclusions and false accusations 🙂

Katrin Barth
October 22, 2016
You gotta love these articles, they really inform us about the newest stuff that is happening in the chinese tech world. Anyway, back to the topic – this company has done a great job presenting their new phone so far 🙂🙂
- Guest
  October 22, 2016
  This comment was deleted.
- Thomas Nelson
  October 22, 2016
  How does it feel to up your own comments? You are a complete idiot, hating on everything… Good luck in life, i am sure you will be a successful person with that attitude! 🙂
- Lazar Prodanovic
  October 23, 2016
  Go to rehab whatever you are on!

Girolamo
October 22, 2016
I took on gearbest the Gold version with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM at 136.22 € shipped, with rapid delivery in 7 days and without customs costs.
Then if arrive me in 1 month, I don’t care, I am aware and I’ll wait to receive it, I can not wait waited far too long …
AnnoN
October 22, 2016
the phone looks great, now they have shown us what they have added to the phone, all we have left to do is to decide whether or not we want this phone 🙂
- VMortens
  October 24, 2016
  And you only add comments like this in every Elephone article…
  We don’t want your phones, believe me.

Frank
October 23, 2016
I don’t trust Elephone after the company lied about weight and camera sensor of elephone S3
- goodwill
  October 23, 2016
  They can’t even get whatsapp to work on their S3 properly still. haha, Something that people should know
Lazar Prodanovic
October 23, 2016
This is getting really pathetic. A paid article & trols along with it. You are becoming a fucking Muppets.
- goodwill
  October 23, 2016
  My advise to real readers. Lets all migrate to Gizmochna. I’m liking gizchina less and less everyday. I just come now out of habits. But they are no longer in my bookmark so I’ll eventually stop coming here. haha
- Pan
  October 23, 2016
  I’m out, as well.
- Guest
  October 23, 2016
  Gizmochina is also full of ads and fake articles. The only site that I’ve seen so far that is honest about paid promotions is AdroidPolice (“promotion” or “ad” tag in the title, and highlighted message in the article), but it doesn’t have a lot of news about Chinese devices.
- Guest
  October 23, 2016
  That site is also full of ads and fake articles. The only site that I’ve seen so far that is honest about paid promotions is AndroidPolice (“promotion” or “ad” tag in the title, and highlighted message in the article), but it doesn’t have a lot of news about Chinese devices.
  P.S.: wow now they started moderating the comments section to prevent people from talking shit about this site. F*ck this, I’m out
  Go suck a umi d!ck
- Ibrahim Bahakim
  October 23, 2016
  Yeah man. Same here.
  I only come here because I am used to open FB YT Gizchina etc…
  But it is not interesting at all anymore…
  ALL those ads and useless news. 🙁
  Barely see any good news or reviews </3
- Ivan Rusanov
  October 23, 2016
  Yeah, they deleted my comment two times, even if I took out the “offensive”, but censored words out. Pathetic.
  Maybe I’m being too suspicious and they will eventually show up, but I don’t think so. I have screenshots though.
- Fábio
  October 24, 2016
  Me too,
  See you in gizmo 👍
- VMortens
  October 24, 2016
  Thing is, shortly after we do that Gizmo will turn into the same kind of mostly sponsored content website…
  Anyways, Linus seems to recently be way more active then Andi.
  For the moment I still stick to both websites.
  EDIT – and suddenly, Gizmo looks hacked 😀
- goodwill
  October 24, 2016
  But at least we know ele doesnt have gizmo in their pockets tho. I think we can reason with linus, i think. haha. i mean, come on. an article on applock on ele?? that’s a new all time low. haha
- goodwill
  October 24, 2016
  apparently the source code for le max 2 is out. so expect some good things to come. hehe

E8hffff
October 23, 2016
Amazing price for x20 based phone. It’s then up to Elephone to support it.
Gaspar
October 23, 2016
Very interesting …. I don’t know those different functions, that enrich the hardware.
I hope will come soon because I can not wait to test it.
Dany
October 23, 2016
All functions more that add up to a great terminal with a great price. From a minimum of 139 to a maximum of $ 249 according to the cut and to the chosen color. I think of features as well, such a low price, it is an offer to be taken immediately on the fly!

E8hffff
October 23, 2016
Amazing price for x20 based phone. It’s then up to Elephone to support it.
Gaspar
October 23, 2016
Very interesting …. I don’t know those different functions, that enrich the hardware.
I hope will come soon because I can not wait to test it.
Dany
October 23, 2016
All functions more that add up to a great terminal with a great price. From a minimum of 139 to a maximum of $ 249 according to the cut and to the chosen color. I think of features as well, such a low price, it is an offer to be taken immediately on the fly!

G'n'T
October 23, 2016
@Ying Hua. It is wrong for you to say the 4Gb variant of this phone is available for $139.99 at http://www.elephone.hk/Event/S7R9Reserve when it clearly isn’t. Why do you guys repeatedly do this? At least get your pricing right instead of leading readers astray. You guys are turning this site into a joke..

Alfred
October 23, 2016
Very interesting software features, an excellent high-end phones at a price of entry-level, and the fact that they have been booked 400,000 pieces, confirms it.
I read on the net that many complain that it is the photocopy of a Samsung S7. I respond by saying that it will be true, but we must analyze two aspects:
1) The smartphones today, they resemble a bit all.
2) It has an internal component that has nothing to do with the Samsung S7, but how different is, it still have a good configuration to be top of the range.
It would be stupid not to take it just because it is the photocopy of the Samsung S7 !!
One thing however I would understand, why the price changes based on the color?

G'n'T
October 23, 2016
@Ying Hua. It is wrong for you to say the 4Gb variant of this phone is available for $139.99 at http://www.elephone.hk/Event/S7R9Reserve when it clearly isn’t. Why do you guys repeatedly do this? At least get your pricing right instead of leading readers astray. You guys are turning this site into a joke..

Alfred
October 23, 2016
Very interesting software features, an excellent high-end phones at a price of entry-level, and the fact that they have been booked 400,000 pieces, confirms it.
I read on the net that many complain that it is the photocopy of a Samsung S7. I respond by saying that it will be true, but we must analyze two aspects:
1) The smartphones today, they resemble a bit all.
2) It has an internal component that has nothing to do with the Samsung S7, but how different is, it still have a good configuration to be top of the range.
It would be stupid not to take it just because it is the photocopy of the Samsung S7 !!
One thing however I would understand, why the price changes based on the color?

Owsley_66
October 23, 2016
In the 18 or so months that I’ve been visiting this site, I’ve never seen it swarmed like this. Real eye opener.
I went in on a pre-sale of an Elephone phone several months ago because they promised a version of the phone that would support 4G in the U.S. As far as I know, the phone was never built or shipped and I’ve given up on Elephone.
Other than regulars, which I’m sure there are a lot of, no one is going to be drawn to this site because of all these “absolutely wonderful” posts about a phone that as yet hasn’t shipped so all you spammers are just wasting your time.
Oh, and get a better translation app cuz some of these posts are totally hilarious.

Mike Bastable
October 23, 2016
Just to point out that most of these new features on that video are also available on the uhans a101… Which I got from China for under 40 euros…. And is a simply awesome handset that has already received 2OTA updates in its short life.. Both of which seriously added benefit for the already happy end user.
Maybe some editorial restraint is needed on this site to avoid becoming an advertorial plagued irrelevance?
Sure you need sponsors but a few less fawning and now critical pieces would help….
- Goran Mihajlović
  October 25, 2016
  So the uhans phones actually get updates? Hmm that’s tempting. What version is it up to now for android?
  - Mike Bastable
    October 25, 2016

Guest
October 23, 2016
First of all, you can clearly see the lag in the ROM.
Second – most of these features come from MTK “reference” rom.source code.
The screenshot and volume gestures are coming from Vanzo – the ODM who makes these laggy ROMs. Trust me, the source code is full of debug stuff and metrics and all these things are active runtime, e.g. measuring opening time of every f*cking app.
That’s why it is laggy. Just get any Qualcomm device from 2013 that is running AOSP or CM rom and you will immediately notice how fluid everything is.
Third – Don’t trust Elephone will ever fix any of the issues. If there’s an update, it will introduce more issues. I remember P6000 issues being fixed by the community, not the vendor. They have no clue about source, they count on ODM (Vanzo) and Vanzo support many devices, plus their code is a mess.
Fourth – I’m sick of all these “paid” commenters. They pay you pennies to comment on all articles. Get a real job, FFS.
Fifth – GizChina went down the drain already. Better do something or you will only see trolls commenting very very soon. As for gizmochina – it really has much more value nowadays, but I can’t stand the voice/intonation of Linus in the video reviews (sorry dude, it’s not your fault really).

Ivan Rusanov
October 23, 2016
So they are now actually deleting comments. Ok, I will try again with removing my self-censored couple of “offensive” words.
First of all you can clearly see the lag in the ROM.
Second – most of these features come from MTK “reference” ROM/source code, so they are common for all MTK devices running the same Android version.
The screenshot and volume gesture are coming from Vanzo – the ODM behind these laggy ROMs. Trust me, the source code is full of debug stuff and metrics and all these things are active runtime, e.g. measuring opening time of every single app. That’s why it is laggy.
Just get any Qualcomm device from e.g. 2013 which runs AOSP or CM ROM and you will immediately see the difference in fluidity.
Third = Don’t trust Elephone will fix the bugs – they won’t and they have no clue about the source code, it is coming from external company and Vanzo support many devices, plus their code is a mess.
Fourth – I’m sick of all these “paid” commenters. You people should get a real job, they are just using you for pennies.
Fifth – GizChina went down the drain already. Better do something or soon your only readers.commenting will be those trolls.
As for Gizmochina – it has more value nowadays, but I can’t stand the voice/intonation of Linus in his video reviews (sorry dude).

Owsley_66
October 23, 2016
In the 18 or so months that I’ve been visiting this site, I’ve never seen it swarmed like this. Real eye opener.
I went in on a pre-sale of an Elephone phone several months ago because they promised a version of the phone that would support 4G in the U.S. As far as I know, the phone was never built or shipped and I’ve given up on Elephone.
Other than regulars, which I’m sure there are a lot of, no one is going to be drawn to this site because of all these “absolutely wonderful” posts about a phone that as yet hasn’t shipped so all you spammers are just wasting your time.
Oh, and get a better translation app cuz some of these posts are totally hilarious.

Mike Bastable
October 23, 2016
Just to point out that most of these new features on that video are also available on the uhans a101… Which I got from China for under 40 euros…. And is a simply awesome handset that has already received 2OTA updates in its short life.. Both of which seriously added benefit for the already happy end user.
Maybe some editorial restraint is needed on this site to avoid becoming an advertorial plagued irrelevance?
Sure you need sponsors but a few less fawning and now critical pieces would help….
- Goran Mihajlović
  October 25, 2016
  So the uhans phones actually get updates? Hmm that’s tempting. What version is it up to now for android?
- Mike Bastable
  October 25, 2016
Ru77
October 24, 2016

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