Gionee has been in the rumor rounds for a while now about the launch of its upcoming flagship smartphone called as Gionee Elife S8. The company has recently announced that the Elife S8 will be officially unveiled at the MWC 2016 event on February 21st and has also confirmed that the device will sport a pressure sensitive display. The smartphone was also recently spotted on GeekBench bearing model number GN9011 with Helio P10 SoC and managed to score 1079 on single-core and 4511 on multi-core. Today, the Gionee Elife S8 has popped on the GFXBench listing with same model number GN9011 revealing few key specifications of the smartphone.
As per the GFXbench listing, the Gionee Elife S8 will come with a 4.6-inch (1920×1080 pixels) full-HD display and will come equipped with 64-bit MediaTek MT6755 Helio P10 octa-core processor clocked at 1.9GHz paired with ARM Mali-T860 GPU. The smartphone will support dual sim dual standby and is expected to run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box. It will come with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of onboard storage and there is no information about the inclusion of a microSD card slot.
On the camera section, the smartphone will sport a 16MP rear camera with LED flash and an 8MP front shooter for video calling and selfie lovers. The front camera on the device is also capable of recording 4K videos. Connectivity options on the smartphone include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 4G-LTE and microUSB port. Apart from this, no other information about the upcoming smartphone is revealed. Although there in no official word from the company, we advise you to take this with a proverbial grain of salt. Stay tuned for more updates in coming days as the MWC 2016 event is just a few weeks away.
A quick recall, Gionee has recently launched a smartphone called as Gionee S6 in India priced at Rs. 19,999 and is available for purchase online exclusively via Flipkart. The smartphone has rich looks with all-metal unibody design and is very slim measuring just 6.9mm. The Gionee S6 features 5.5-inch HD AMOLED display, MediaTek MT6753 octa-core SoC, 3GB RAM, 32GB storage, 13MP camera with PDAF, VoLTE, USB Type-C port, 3150mAh battery and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop.