Hi guys!
We have full review with unboxing and test of the newest smartphone from Chinese
Elephone P8 Mini.
Though, it has almost flagship specifications the smartphone comes with ridiculously budget
price of $133 at GearBest.
How is it possible?
We’ll find in our review.
The Chinese company Elephone produces quality phones, but they’re not well known outside
of China.
Although, online shopping stores, like GearBest, are helping these Chinese phones get out
of the Chinese-only market.
We leave the link below the video, where you can buy new Elephone P8 Mini with the
better price.
So, let’s start unboxing, while I tell you about Elephone company and its new smartphone.
Elephone P8 Mini comes in a plain white box with minimal literature.
Inside the box are just the phone, a sim ejection tool, micro USB cable and charging
plug.
It isn’t special and for $139.99 I wouldn’t expect it to be.
Our todays hero is a little brother of Elephone P8, which is a brilliant phone for the price.
Although, it’s a budget phone, it still comes with great features, such as fingerprint
sensor and full HD display.
The display, I should add, also has no bezels on the side something not even iPhone 7 boasts.
On first glance Elephone P8 Mini looks like a mix of iPhone 6s, iPhone 7 and Nexus 6P
both of which are good looking phones.
New smartphone has all metal design, as well as antenna lines like iPhone 6S.
It’s also got horizontal camera hump, like iPhone 7 to account for the two cameras.
It’s also got fingerprint sensor on the back, like Nexus 6P.
Having the fingerprint sensor on the back can be very useful, when using the phone normally.
However, it means you will have to pick up your phone to unlock it.
Elephone, P8 Mini is a good-looking phone and it really looks like flagship.
It comes in three colors: blue, red and black.
Personally, I received black version, and I think it looks the best and the most premium.
The front of Elephone P8 Mini also looks good, as it’s a clean black slate with
no ugly logos.
Along the bottom are three capacitive buttons, which open the app drawer, go home and go back
Overall, it’s a sleek looking phone and it’s made of good materials too.
Like many Chinese phones, Elephone P8 mini, supports dual-sim, so that you can switch
between sim cards for work and home.
If you don’t need dual-sim, you can insert single sim and micro SD card for expanded
storage up to 128GB.
So, you can have about 192GB of storage.
Great!
Let’s turn on the smartphone.
Elephone P8 Mini runs on ELE OS 1.0, which a custom ROM built on Android 7.0 Nougat.
It’s great that it runs the latest Android version, but ELE OS is still in its early
stages, and probably needs to be polished a bit.
However, some parts of user interface are actually pretty useful, such as freezer,
app, which works similarly to the famous Greenify app.
It freezes apps, so they are unable to run in the background.
In addition, there’s privacy system, which can lock your apps with a password or your fingerprint.
This is especially useful for people, who have friends with prying eyes.
The whole user interface itself looks pretty sleek a bit like MI UI, which comes with
Xiaomi phones.
Right now, I’d prefer to have stock Android 7.0, but ELE OS looks pretty good..
Elephone P8 Mini sports a stunning 5-inch display.
It’s also Full HD, which is great for the price.
Text and videos are clear, and it makes for pleasurable user experience.
The screen is bright, but not the brightest, I’ve tried.
Still, it’s passable for use in daylight, and it’s still a decent panel.
However, the speakers aren’t as nice as, I’d hoped they’d be.
They sound small and tinny and lack detail but the number of times, I’ve wanted to
use a phone’s inbuilt speaker for entertainment is near zero.
It’s significantly loud, however, so your alerts and ringtones can still be heard.
Elephone P8 Mini is fast.
It’s got octa-core processor MTK6750T with a maximum clock speed of 1.5Ghz and
4GB RAM.
Also, new smartphone comes with 64GB of storage.
As expected, user interface doesn’t lag at all, and I noticed no slowdowns, when
playing casual games.
I have tried some 3D games and Elephone P8 Mini runs all of them.
Overall, the performance is great.
In Antutu test, Elephone P8 Mini scored about 40000 points.
It isn’t too bad, considering the price only $139.99.
If you just need a casual phone for casual use, Elephone P8 Mini is almost perfect.
The cameras are also great on paper.
Elephone P8 Mini has a total of three cameras.
Both the front and back cameras are decent quality.
In fact, the front facing camera is better than the back, since it is 16 megapixels
shooter.
While the back camera has 13 megapixels and 2 megapixels camera setup.
I’m not sure what the second back camera does and at 2-megapixels I’m not sure,
it does much.
However, overall picture quality for both the front and back are good.
It is good enough for budget smartphone.
Elephone P8 Mini is an amazing phone at
a ridiculous price.
You can order it for $139.99 from GearBest.
I’m sure, it will be the perfect phone for anyone, who just needs a good fast smartphone.
It doesn’t have iris scanning or other gimmicky features, like Samsung phones, but
in fact, you don’t need them.
Elephone P8 Mini offer everything you need for a modern smartphone and its price just $139.99.
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