Elephone S9 with Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 and Curved Display in the works


Elephone S9

Elephone surprised everybody today and just released an image and some interesting details about what we assume is their next flagship phone. The company appears to be calling it Elephone S9 as we can see from their post on Facebook.

Elephone S9

What’s really interesting about the phone is that it’ll be the first ever Elephone device sporting a Qualcomm CPU, more specifically the company stated that it’ll be equipped with the powerful and efficient Qualcomm Snapdragon 660. If that were to be confirmed, it would be a huge step forward for the smaller Chinese phone maker.

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Of course, we hope that’s true as well as it may lead other similar companies to adopt Qualcomm SoCs, at least on higher end devices.

Another important detail Elephone has revealed about this Note 8-inspired phone is indeed the presence of a flexible AMOLED display. Elephone say it will be the third device sporting such technology, after the Samsung S8 and Samsung Note 8; we assume they mean in 2017.

That’s as much as we know at the moment, other than what it’ll look like, which if you’ve read up until now, you know it’s a carbon copy of the Samsung Note 8. Learn more about it on the company’s official website (when available).

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34 Comments

  1. Lazar Prodanovic
    October 24, 2017

    It’s not first time nor a first Elephone to use QC SoC. First whose Trunk with S410 all do it whosent bad the SoC whose (& that whose in golden MTK mid/entry lv days) so it never got much traction. Who knows if pricing/quality is good & they release sources on time this one could be good (but I don’t have a high hopes regarding it happening).

    • October 24, 2017

      Ahhah you still remember the Elephone Trunks! That was an oddity, rare to see a QC in an Elephone, and a midrange 660 at that!

      • Lazar Prodanovic
        October 25, 2017

        Well shot me, I even whose saying something in positive manner about Elephane. I do remember… I also remember that hybrid smart watch Andi rewievd back in those days which probably whose their solo only rather really good product ever. πŸ˜‰
        Funny thing is it whose so long ago & real IoT time never came.

  2. Lazar Prodanovic
    October 24, 2017

    It’s not first time nor a first Elephone to use QC SoC. First whose Trunk with S410 all do it whosent bad the SoC whose (& that whose in golden MTK mid/entry lv days) so it never got much traction. Who knows if pricing/quality is good & they release sources on time this one could be good (but I don’t have a high hopes regarding it happening).

    • Zi Jin Cheng
      October 24, 2017

      Ahhah you still remember the Elephone Trunks! That was an oddity, rare to see a QC in an Elephone, and a midrange 660 at that!

    • Lazar Prodanovic
      October 25, 2017

      Well shot me, I even whose saying something in positive manner about Elephane. I do remember… I also remember that hybrid smart watch Andi rewievd back in those days which probably whose their solo only rather really good product ever. πŸ˜‰
      Funny thing is it whose so long ago & real IoT time never came.

  3. Avni
    October 25, 2017

    Awesome.. Looking forward to see the specification

  4. Cathidi
    October 25, 2017

    Its a cool looking phone,with a good processor,but i feel like we’ll have to wait abit.Well probably see it around few months.

  5. Dorry
    October 25, 2017

    I have already used 2 -3 Elephone models. But all phones are same problem. Battery issue. Please look after this issue.

  6. JaCk
    October 25, 2017

    So will it be like the galaxy note 8’s 18.5 : 9 screen? or traditional 18:9 like all the other brands??

  7. Anderi
    October 25, 2017

    As the 1st rendered image came by now, I am not expecting them to launch the device very soon! At least not within next 6 months by when new technology will be available in market πŸ˜€ hahaaa.. lol

  8. Rick
    October 25, 2017

    Looks stunning as the sides are curved. Is I think not only galaxy S8 and S8 note are not only the devices to have real curved edges but also S7 and S7 note had the same curved screen. Am I wrong?

  9. Cathleen
    October 25, 2017

    Devices are good from this company, once I contacted to the after sales, they were responsive as well, but the single thing I did not like during the purchase of my Elephone S8 was the bad service by GearBest it took more than 1 month to ship my device :/
    But the device is really good, I am satisfied and hoping to get Oreo on this. πŸ™‚

    • Muhammad Yasir
      October 25, 2017

      10/10 for trolling

      • Lazar Prodanovic
        November 1, 2017

        She scored 11/10 at me.

  10. Guest
    October 25, 2017

    Awesome.. Looking forward to see the specification

  11. Guest
    October 25, 2017

    Its a cool looking phone,with a good processor,but i feel like we’ll have to wait abit.Well probably see it around few months.

  12. Guest
    October 25, 2017

    I have already used 2 -3 Elephone models. But all phones are same problem. Battery issue. Please look after this issue.

  13. carlos
    October 25, 2017

    Won’t comment about this now, rather wold wait for more details to come.

  14. rebecca
    October 25, 2017

    Finally Snapdragon!! a big leap for Elephone. They could adopt this earlier.

    • Muhammad Yasir
      October 25, 2017

      dont count on it/them

  15. jolas
    October 25, 2017

    When the detailed information will come?? about battery and camera? They are just delivering the S8 and in between theay are showing the S9!! hahahaa lol

  16. Chandan Mitra
    October 25, 2017

    So will it be like the galaxy note 8’s 18.5 : 9 screen? or traditional 18:9 like all the other brands??

  17. Anderi
    October 25, 2017

    As the 1st rendered image came by now, I am not expecting them to launch the device very soon! At least not within next 6 months by when new technology will be available in market πŸ˜€ hahaaa.. lol

  18. EXPLORER
    October 25, 2017

    Looks stunning as the sides are curved. Is I think not only galaxy S8 and S8 note are not only the devices to have real curved edges but also S7 and S7 note had the same curved screen. Am I wrong?

  19. Cathleen
    October 25, 2017

    Devices are good from this company, once I contacted to the after sales, they were responsive as well, but the single thing I did not like during the purchase of my Elephone S8 was the bad service by GearBest it took more than 1 month to ship my device :/
    But the device is really good, I am satisfied and hoping to get Oreo on this. πŸ™‚

    • Guest
      October 25, 2017

      10/10 for trolling

    • Lazar Prodanovic
      November 1, 2017

      She scored 11/10 at me.

  20. carlos
    October 25, 2017

    Won’t comment about this now, rather wold wait for more details to come.

  21. Guest
    October 25, 2017

    Finally Snapdragon!! a big leap for Elephone. They could adopt this earlier.

    • Guest
      October 25, 2017

      dont count on it/them

  22. Guest
    October 25, 2017

    When the detailed information will come?? about battery and camera? They are just delivering the S8 and in between theay are showing the S9!! hahahaa lol

  23. Allanitomwesh
    October 29, 2017

    This phone is definitely exciting, IF AND ONLY IF Elephone works on past mistakes.
    1. Legendary ‘Elephone rattly sim card tray’
    2. Legendary ‘Elephone can’t take low light photos’
    3. Legendary ‘Scanning the finger to lighting the screen pause’
    4.Legendary ‘Metallic but still not necessarily premium’. To get what i mean here hold Elephone P8 next to a Vernee Apollo
    At least on this one the bezels will be thin so we wont have legendary ‘home button with no capacitive keys’ bezel wastage, so it will be a good phone. It would also be nice if they bring back wireless charging like elephone P9000. That is if it launches at all, anyone remember the P9000 Edge?

  24. Allanitomwesh
    October 29, 2017

    This phone is definitely exciting, IF AND ONLY IF Elephone works on past mistakes.
    1. Legendary ‘Elephone rattly sim card tray’
    2. Legendary ‘Elephone can’t take low light photos’
    3. Legendary ‘Scanning the finger to lighting the screen pause’
    4.Legendary ‘Metallic but still not necessarily premium’. To get what i mean here hold Elephone P8 next to a Vernee Apollo
    At least on this one the bezels will be thin so we wont have legendary ‘home button with no capacitive keys’ bezel wastage, so it will be a good phone. It would also be nice if they bring back wireless charging like elephone P9000. That is if it launches at all, anyone remember the P9000 Edge?