Curved AMOLED display, 128 GB storage, 6 GB RAM and eight-core proci for 36 HUF?
Not a device today, but given the technical content and price, it is now a particularly winning choice!
The Elephone U resides in a 72,5 x 154 x 8,4 millimeter housing with a total weight of 160 grams. The central unit is a chip manufactured by MediaTek, the Helio P23, also known as the MT6763. We also wrote a more detailed article about this tile last year, who are interested in deeper technical details, they ITT they can read our writing.
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Processor
In a general tutorial like this one, we’re more into the processor, video accelerator, and memory management, so we’re doing it now. The Helio P23 processor can handle eight cores, located in two clusters. In the lower group, four ARM Cortex-A53s work at a maximum clock speed of 1,5 GHz, while the other group consists of four ARM Cortex-A2s also operating at 53 GHz. Many times we are asked what good these many cores are in a phone processor. Fortunately, we also have an exhaustive answer to this question, as you can read a detailed article on the subject here. ITT.
The Helio P23 and its processor are known to be 16-nanometer bandwidth, 64-bit, and support the ARMv8_A instruction set. In addition to proci, the chip contains the integrated GPU, which is the hardware responsible for speeding up graphics operations. In this case, it is a dual-core ARM Mali-G700 MP71 solution operating at 2 MHz, which in our opinion provides completely adequate performance for this lower-middle-class SoC. The memory controller integrated in the P23 handles dual-channel LPDDR4X memories, this phone comes with either 4 or 6 GB, depending on this configuration. The memory clock is 1600 MHz. The phone we are presenting has a capacity of 6 GB, as well as no less than 128 GB of built-in storage!
Display
In the Elephone U, we find a display that we haven’t discovered in any Chinese phone so far. Although the hardware is strong enough, this display is what makes us claim that this phone and its bigger brother are a milestone in the history of Chinese phone manufacturing.
The device has an AMOLED display, but not just any one, but a true bent display, much like the much more expensive Samsung phones. So it's over for magic, we're not going to read the phone next to 2,5D and 3D glass, but to be a curved, bent display. That's exactly what we used to do with Samsung, and it slides down to the frame on both sides, so real pixels live in the downhill section.
The panel itself is a 5,99 colos 18: 9 aspect ratio with a resolution of FHD +, 2160 x 1080 pixels. The display is protected by a curved Gorilla Glass glass from the harsh outside world, whereby the sensor surface can handle 10 finger touch simultaneously.
What we know from the display panel is that the six-inch diagonal and FHD + resolution result in 403 ppi (pixel per inch) pixel density. The color depth is 24 bit, with the number of colors displayed 16 777 216. The display on this phone occupies the percentage of 83,2 on the front panel and the NTSC color space coverage is 103. These are data that sounds very good, but since we're talking about the AMOLED display, we do not have to be surprised. And although they are not surprised, they have a strong desire for us to be able to admire them in hand.
It appears in the pictures that it is no exaggeration to say that the Elephone has made a giant move in the field of telephone production, for example, that Xiaomi did this with the first successful frameless phone Mi MIX.
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The Elephone U adds three cameras for photography. There is an 8- on the front panel and two 13-megapixel sensors on the back panel under the optics. We have not yet received reliable information about the aperture value of these optics, so we need to get data that the front camera is capable of performing face detection, and the back camera knows things like true depth blur, HDR, white balance and ISO adjustment, or continuous shooting. .
If there is something missing from the capabilities of the cameras, there is the possibility of high-frame recording, which would allow you to shoot cool slow motion. These features are no big deal nowadays for an expensive phone, but you will see that this phone offers a lot of 100 for under $ 1,000 for all the features and capabilities you've ever read!
Other skills
Let's see what else Elephone U has to offer us! Wireless connections are here first. The phone comes with advanced dual-channel WiFi, which in addition to the traditional 2,4 GHz band also supports the increasingly widespread 5 GHz. Unfortunately, the latter option can be found in very few Chinese phones, but here it is! On the other hand, we only get version 4.0 from Bluetooth, although if we look at the differences compared to the more common 4.1, we will see that it is not very worth grieving about it. In the end, I left a very important piece of information, even that we can find support for the B20 800 MHz LTE, or broadband internet connection, used in my phone!
The phone has one of its capabilities, or maybe a little bit more battery. The 3620 mAh capacity unit is Lithium-Polymer technology. It can be downloaded on a Type-C port, which can be accessed through the fast download using MediaTek Pump Express Plus technology. Particularly interesting is the fact that there is no possibility of wireless charging from the phone either!
The mobile can handle two Nano-SIM cards, the mass storage, if the 128 GB is scarce, with a maximum memory card of 128 GB capacity. As for other capabilities, sensors, we get what's expected from such a phone. There is a fingerprint reader, if you want to discard facial recognition, we get a gyroscope, a compass, and a gravitational sensor.
As usual, the price remained at the end. The device, which once debuted for $ 300, even though it still stands out in hardware to this day, costs just under a hundred dollars. It is safe to say that this is the main prize if we look at competitors with similar abilities. Moreover, compared to them, it is also a real curiosity, because the curved AMOLED displays are starting to infiltrate only Chinese manufacturers these days, and even today only in the top category. So, if you want a very nice mobile phone that meets today's requirements in all areas, consider buying one!
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