The USP of Gionee Elife E5 is the AMOLED screen and the ultra slim body with a 6.85mm thickness. The handset measures 7.27mm x 69.98mm x 137.95mm and weighs 133 grams. The device offers good build quality and excellent finish. The phone offers 4.8 inch AMOLED screen with supported resolution of 1280×720 pixels (305.96 ppi). The screen offers brighter display and excellent viewing angles. Elife E5 packs a Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection on the screen, so there will be no chance of getting scratches on the display.
The Gionee Elife E5 is powered by a quad-core MediaTek 6589T processor clocked at 1.5 GHz along with PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU. There are hardly any performance issues with the phone as the screen runs smooth, without any lag. It scored around 1600 points on Vellamo 2 HTML5 browser benchmark, more than 16,000 points on AnTuTu Benchmark 3.3 and 4927 on Quadrant Benchmark. There is 1GB of RAM of which 579 MB is available and of the 16 GB onboard storage space. There is no micro SD card slot and hence users cannot add external storage. Gionee Elife E5 comes with 8-megapixel of the rear camera with LED flash and BSI sensor. E5's has a 5-megapixel front facing camera which can record 720p HD videos. The phone has the ability to record 1080p Full HD resolution videos at 30fps.
The Gionee Elife E5 is packed with a 2000 mAh battery, which is very impressive. The company has installed various apps in this phone for making the battery life better. Connectivity options include 3G (HSDPA), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth v 4.0 with A2DP and GPS. It also comes with wireless display which will allow you to easily share the content from this phone to your HDTV. It comes without USB OTG support and also includes scheduled airplane and power ON and OFF mode.
