SMaRTPhONE GIONEE P7: A BUDGET SMARTPHONE — Raj Kumar Maurya ionee is one of the few Chinese companies in India those are selling their phones offline as well online. Gionee is Gknown for its premium segment smartphones with great battery backup & big screen like Gionee Marathon m5. Also the Gionee’s phones are easily available in the market unlike the Xiaomi, Coolpad and some other companies which are mostly available online and are often out of stock. The Gionee P7 price in India is Rs 9,999 and under 10k it going to stand against Price: `9,999/- some most popular budget smartphones in India such as Xiaomi Redmi 3S, Redmi Note 3 &4, Moto G4 Play, Coolpad Note 3S, and Lenovo K6 Power. Gionee P7 Design and Build: The design of Gionee P7 is not SCORE unique but looks attractive little bit due to its glossy panel. The Gionee Price: 7/10 P7 we got for review was gray in color from back side and edges, Performance: 7/10 while the front side is complete in black. The phone completely has a Features: 8/10 good quality plastic body and glossy finished all around. The Glossy panel looks attractive but also prone to fingerprints. The back side is comprised of Camera, LED flash, Gionee’s Logo in a vertical symmetry Overall: 7/10 and speaker grills at the bottom. The back cover is removable, under it back cover you will find SIM tray and microSD card slot. Coming to its front side, it has three capacitive buttons below the display which aren’t backlit. Gionee P7 Display Review: The 5.0-inch display has a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and 294 ppi. The color reproduction of the display is good but the viewing angles of this phone are average. The brightness KEY SPECS: 5.0-inch Display, Processor, 1.3GHz, Front Camera level of the phone is good and we didn’t find any difficulty while using 5-megapixel,Rear Camera: 8-megapixel, Resolution 720x1280 pixels, it in direct sunlight. The phone uses HD display that can be a little RAM 2GB, OS: Android 6.0, Storage: 16GB, Battery capacity: 2300mAh downside of this phone because Redmi Note 4 at the same providing PROS: Budget price, Good camera, Silicon back cover and screen the FHD screen. Overall the display is good for day to day usage. guard in the box Gionee P7 Camera Review: Good Camera: Gionee P7 Camera CONS: No fingerprint sensor has 8MP rear camera auto focus is very good and colors it captured are natural. The quality of images it captured are not so bad and also you can’t expect much from a phone coming at this price range. Overall the camera is good for general purpose usage but still, the We played Asphalt 8 game on this phone and there is no lag on detailing part is missing somewhere. The images captured in the the phone while gaming but, yes, there is some heating issue during low light have come with some noise. It offers different modes such gameplay and camera usage. The device gives 16GB internal memory as Pro, beauty mode, night, panorama, time-lapse, GIF, and HDR out of which the only 9Gb is available for users. The device works including live filters. About selfies, there is a 5MP camera and it is very well in our basic usage such text, YouTube, calling and browsing. good to capture selfies in a good amount of light. Gionee P7 Battery life: The Gionee P7 battery is 2300mAh that Gionee P7 Performance and Software: The Gionee P7 has an gives us 4 hours and 55 minutes in our video loop test. If you are a Amigo 3.2.0 UI on the top Android 6.0 Marshmallow. There is no app moderate user then the phone can easily stand for a day. But if you drawer and its shortcut setting panel access is same like iPhone are an extreme user then we advise you to carry your charger or by swiping from the bottom. The notification can access by swiping power bank with you. down from the top. After updating the software, we got a new panic button feature that triggers the emergency call by pressing the power button three times. Bottomline: Gionee P7 has a good camera but if you The device is powered by MediaTek MT6735 1.3GHz Quad-core compared it with the other budget segment smartphone processor and Mali-T720 GPU coupled with 2GB RAM. For storage, it available in the market then it becomes difficult for it to has 16 GB along dedicated microSD card slot to expand the memory stand around Rs 10,000. If you are not a fond of removable up to 128GB. The smartphone can run all day to day apps easily but battery phone then there some good options available in after opening 10-12 apps in the background like Facebook, Instagram the market you can consider such as Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, and other apps the smartphone show some lag. Overall multitasking Redmi 3S, Coolpad Note 3S and Lenovo K6 Power. experience is average. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] APRIL 2017 PCQUEST 61.