Price and size of Gionee A1 Plus, a new offering of Gionee don't fit in pocket. Rakesh Kumar reviews the devices
Gionee, a Chinese Smartphone maker launched two of their flagships devices~ Gionee A1 and A1 Plus at MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2017 this year. The Chinese tech giant has already released Gionee A1 in market months ago, but they launched A1 Plus just a few weeks back. Now what is in offering? The device has everything what a good smartphone demands these days. It has a good display, Impressive battery back-up and good selfi-camera. With all these features, the phone looks quite promising. But who likes to keep a bulky phone, which is like impossible to fit in pocket? Of course many may dislike or uncomfortable carrying a bulky device. Another loophole the device has is its price, the phone costs Rs 26,999. It makes it quite costly when it is compared with Oneplus, Honor devices, which is quite rich in features. Even the recently launched, Xiaomi Mi Max 2, which has the same screen size and battery life, comes in ten thousand less with A1 Plus.
Design and features
The phone has a metallic body with round edges and curved sides. The screen of the phone is 6-inch is well protected by a 2.5D curved Gorilla Glass 3. With 9mm and 226 gram, the Gionee A1 Plus is quite sturdy, it is something which everybody would notice. The phone has two antennas bands~ one on the top (back) and another one on the bottom (back). At the rear side of Gionee A1 Plus there is big logo of Gionee and above it there is a dual cameras and dual LED flash. On the top edge of phone has a 3.5mm audio input and a USB charging port is at the bottom edge along with a speaker grille. The power key along with the volume rockers are placed on the right edge of the phone, while at the left side, one will find a dual-SIM slot. At the bottom bezel of the device has single button for fingerprint scanner and home and a navigation key. Coming to display, the Gionee A1 Plus has a 6-inch Full HD display with resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The display is bright and sharp; one won't face any problem in using outdoors or viewing any angles. The auto brightness is also fast.
Camera and battery
Gionee A1 Plus sports dual-camera set-up (rear) with a 13-megapixel (MP) sensor with f/2.0 aperture and a 5 MP fixed-focus sensor with f/2.2 aperture. The dual LED flash is for low light photography. The phone worked well in under bright lights but was not up to the mark when there was low light. The pictures in bright lights have are quite impressive with all the details and coloure balance. The front camera is a 20MP fixed focus camera with f/2.0 aperture, the performance is good but it also created some problem in dark. When it comes to battery, the phone is equipped with a big 4,550 mAh non-removable battery, which work really well. Even in heavy usage, the phone once charge can spend more than a day. The fast charging is like icing on cake.
Specifications
Gionee A1 Plus is equipped with MediaTek Helio P25 processor, which features octa-core that runs at frequency shooting up to 2.6 GHz. It runs on Android Nougat under the Amigo 4 skin. It has 4 GB RAM and 64 GB internal storage, which can be expanded with microSD to up to 256 GB. But it supports a hybrid card slot which means one can either use two SIMs or one SIM and a microSD.
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