Elephone Allegedly Working on a Curved Display Phone with SD 835

Tom BreaseAugust 26, 2017

Elephone are apparently working on a new phone that will be featuring a dual curved flexible display. This would be real second smartphone after the Samsung S8 sporting this design and using an 18:9 display aspect ratio.

According to these “rumors” from Chinese social site Weibo, the smartphone will come with a big 5.99-inch display, so it’ll be kind of in the middle between the Samsung S8 and the Samsung S8 Plus.

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But here comes the surprise, the Elephone device is allegedly going to equip the best Qualcomm CPU on the market, a.k.a. the Snapdragon 835. Making it the 9th smartphone boasting this processor after the Sony XZ Premium, Xiaomi 6, Oneplus 5, Nubia Z17, Samsung Galaxy S8, Essential Phone PH-1, HTC U11 and LG V30.

Always according to the same rumors, the smartphone will be priced just $399.99, so around half the price of a Samsung S8 Plus. We’ll have to wait and see if these rumors are to be confirmed, if that so it’d be a great step forward for Elephone.

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Tom Brease
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- Charls
  August 28, 2017
  Did you booked it? I recently booked it on pre-order, any idea when they will dispatch the devices?? Any clue?

balcobomber25
August 26, 2017
In actuality it will be a normal display with a Helio P20 or something similar. We have seen this before from Elephone, promising the world and then not delivering.
They will say “Due to increasing fan demand we used the P20 instead!”.
- Riccardo Benzoni
  August 26, 2017
  ahahah, they are really capable to say something like that 😀
- Hardik
  August 28, 2017
  Hahaha.. you seems to be a professional astrologer or an employee of Elephone. How you get this kind of statements so earlier?? ??
  - balcobomber25
    August 28, 2017

Guest
August 26, 2017
LOL this is the best prank ever that i’ve heard !!!!
Not even the lowest Snapdragon soc ever installed on any shitty elephoney phones.
Don’t mention SD835
mf1gt3r
August 26, 2017
Deja Vu. It will end up with a stupid Helio P25 at best if at all it launches.

Riccardo Benzoni
August 26, 2017
Sure, we are all believing it’s the SD835 😀
it will be the X27 at maximum or, more likely, the usual P20-something, I wonder what’s in their minds when they plan this marketing strategies, maybe something like:
A: “we have a phone with helio P20-P25, what should we do to make it interesting?”
B: “Let’s say we’ll use SD835, so people will be curious at the beginning, then totally mad at us when we tell we lied to them and we’ll use the shitty MTK SoC instead”
A: “Good Idea! so maybe this way they will hate us even more and maybe this can help our sales somehow””
B:”Yes, absolutely! People love to have their expectations destroyed and feel cheated, we’ll sell million of those model this time, you’ll see!”
- Hardik
  August 28, 2017
  Why someone will bias the news and more of it, it’s a rumour post let’s wait for the official news. I believe Elephone can surprise anytime. I am still using my Elephone S7 without a single problem.
  - Riccardo Benzoni
    August 28, 2017
    we had enough of your rumors, hope you understand it. It’s not “it’s only a rumor”, everytime it’s “only a rumor” and people now are fed up with this shit.
    Since you look 100% like an Elephone’s employee, maybe you can help us into telling them to cut this bullshit out once and for all.

balcobomber25
August 26, 2017
In actuality it will be a normal display with a Helio P20 or something similar. We have seen this before from Elephone, promising the world and then not delivering.
They will say “Due to increasing fan demand we used the P20 instead!”.
- Riccardo Benzoni
  August 26, 2017
  ahahah, they are really capable to say something like that 😀
- Guest
  August 28, 2017
  Hahaha.. you seems to be a professional astrologer or an employee of Elephone. How you get this kind of statements so earlier?? 😂😂
- balcobomber25
  August 28, 2017
  Years of experience with this despicable excuse for a company.

Riccardo Benzoni
August 26, 2017
Sure, we are all believing it’s the SD835 😀
it will be the X27 at max or, more likely, the usual P20-something, I wonder what’s in their minds when they plan these marketing strategies, maybe something like:
A: “we have a phone with helio P20-P25, what should we do to make it interesting?”
B: “Let’s say we’ll use SD835, so people will be curious at the beginning, then totally mad at us when we tell we lied to them and we’ll use the same old MTK SoC instead”
A: “Good Idea! so maybe this way they will hate us even more and maybe this can help our sales somehow””
B:”Yes, absolutely! People love to have their expectations destroyed and feel cheated, we’ll sell million of those model this time, you’ll see!”
- Guest
  August 28, 2017
  Why someone will bias the news and more of it, it’s a rumour post let’s wait for the official news. I believe Elephone can surprise anytime. I am still using my Elephone S7 without a single problem.
- Riccardo Benzoni
  August 28, 2017
  we had enough of your rumors, hope you understand it. It’s not “it’s only a rumor”, everytime it’s “only a rumor” and people now are fed up with this shit.
  Since you look 100% like an Elephone’s employee, maybe you can help us into telling them to cut this bullshit out once and for all.

Jack
August 27, 2017
- goodwill
  August 27, 2017
  - Rocky Raja
    August 28, 2017
    What do you mean by coping? Do they have any patient?? All the companies are working on it.
    - goodwill
      August 28, 2017
      It’s copying, not coping. Was that short comment hard to understand for you? It was pretty direct and your reply makes no sense.
Guest
August 27, 2017
- goodwill
  August 27, 2017
  How is copying Galaxy S8, innovative? haha
- Charls
  August 28, 2017
  What do you mean by coping? Do they have any patient?? All the companies are working on it.
- goodwill
  August 28, 2017
  It’s copying, not coping. Was that short comment hard to understand for you? It was pretty direct and your reply makes no sense.

Kriti
August 27, 2017
I am really pleased with the unique design of the phone…
Sonu
August 27, 2017
It sounds great. When this new model available in market?
John
August 27, 2017
I think now they are going to focus more on flagship devices. It’s good to see that they are now capable to use Snapdragon instead of Mtk. Hope they will use Snapdragon on all their upcoming midrange devices as well 😉

Harsh
August 27, 2017
What does it mean by flexible display?? Can we bend it?? Future technology?? Dope!
Alex
August 27, 2017
I was going through the features of elephone s8 and I found out many newly added features…
I am really excited and eagerly waiting for this phone
Gurpreet
August 27, 2017
I will personally recomand everyone to use elephone s8

Shaunak
August 27, 2017
I would rather like to question when is this elephone s8 available in India
Mou
August 27, 2017
This curve design looks so good
Tumpa
August 28, 2017
It must say that in reasonable price Elephone give us so many features from any others company
Nita
August 28, 2017
This carve design looks so great
Kendrick
August 28, 2017
In fact, I think ELEPHONE has the ability to use snapdragon now, and this brand is trying to enter the high-end market, then Snapdragon is their only choice. If it’s true, I think this is a good start for ELEPHONE to change. This brand still has many problems such as customer service, software update. Personally, I use S7 now, after the latest update, this system solved many bugs in the first version of android 7.1. I think this is the first step to make progress. Then, I am optimistic for this brand at lease now.

Guest
August 28, 2017
I am really pleased with the unique design of the phone…
Guest
August 28, 2017
It sounds great. When this new model available in market?
Guest
August 28, 2017
I think now they are going to focus more on flagship devices. It’s good to see that they are now capable to use Snapdragon instead of Mtk. Hope they will use Snapdragon on all their upcoming midrange devices as well 😉

Guest
August 28, 2017
What does it mean by flexible display?? Can we bend it?? Future technology?? Dope!
Guest
August 28, 2017
I was going through the features of elephone s8 and I found out many newly added features…
I am really excited and eagerly waiting for this phone
Guest
August 28, 2017
I will personally recomand everyone to use elephone s8

Guest
August 28, 2017
I would rather like to question when is this elephone s8 available in India
Guest
August 28, 2017
This curve design looks so good
Rocky Raja
August 28, 2017
I successfully booked the previous S8, but about this, is it confirmed officially?? Which year it will be in production? 2017 or 2018??
Guest
August 28, 2017
It must say that in reasonable price Elephone give us so many features from any others company

Guest
August 28, 2017
This carve design looks so great
Guest
August 28, 2017
In fact, I think ELEPHONE has the ability to use snapdragon now, and this brand is trying to enter the high-end market, then Snapdragon is their only choice. If it’s true, I think this is a good start for ELEPHONE to change. This brand still has many problems such as customer service, software update. Personally, I use S7 now, after the latest update, this system solved many bugs in the first version of android 7.1. I think this is the first step to make progress. Then, I am optimistic for this brand at lease now.

Charls
August 28, 2017
I successfully booked the previous S8, but about this, is it confirmed officially?? Which year it will be in production? 2017 or 2018??
Sam
August 29, 2017
Umi’s tricks, they also said they had SD835, no where is it? Come on Chinese brands, no more tricks but do things what you really need to do.
Guest
August 29, 2017
Umi’s tricks, they also said they had SD835, no where is it? Come on Chinese brands, no more tricks but do things what you really need to do.