Remember those days when the Motorola RAZR flip phones were in the hands of every youth around you? That was more than a decade ago, where flip phones and clamshells were the trend among consumers. We’ve pretty much moved on from that era, but Chinese OEM Gionee thinks otherwise. The company has launched two smartphones this week in mainland China, one of which, is a flip phone.
We’ll start with the non-flip phone first, the Gionee S8. The handset comes with a industry standard 5.5 inch 1080p AMOLED screen, which is capable of supporting Apple’s ‘Force Touch” like gestures and controls. Underneath the hood is a MediaTek Helio P10 octa-core processor, alongisde 4GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. Powered by a 3,000mAh battery, the S8 sports a 16MP rear camera and a 8MP selfie shooter. The handset runs its own Amigo UI on top of Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Moving on to the flip phone, the Gionee W909 features the same processor, amount of RAM and storage as the Gionee S8. While it doesn’t sport a 1080p display, it comes with two 4.2 inch LCD displays at 720p. The handset has a 16MP rear camera and a 5MP front facing camera. Below the rear camera lies a fingerprint sensor. Gionee didn’t really size it up when it comes to the W909’s battery, coming at 2,530mAh. Considering that the handset sports two displays, we’re uncertain as to how the battery will hold up. While there’s a USB Type-C port for future-proofing, unfortunately, the W909 only comes with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box.
As far as we know, both handsets will first launch in China. We will be expecting the Gionee S8 and W909 to be heading to other Asian markets, notably India. The S8 and W909 will be available at 2,599RMB (RM1,577.08) and 3,999RMB (RM2,426.61) respectively. What do you think of Gionee’s attempt on making flip phones popular again?
Source: Android Headlines
