Remember this is my first Gionee phone so the review is not out of love for the brand.
The rating are based on comparison with phones in the same range, ofcourse if you compare the video quality of 19 K phone and 30K phone there would be some difference.
Pros
Looks: 15 out of 10 (Way above its expectation)
The best thing I have seen in a long time. This black beauty is well ahead of the race to any phone in the market when it comes to looks. I would go on and say better than sony xperia Z series, I phone, Nexus 5 and micromax canvas Knight. Believe me I have held all those phones in my hand , as most of my friends use high end phones but none comes even close to this when it comes to looks. I cannot take my eyes of this phone. For 18,999 this is a must buy. The thin and cut borders with glass metallic black finishing is awesome. This is exactly what I had imagined my phone to look like and thank god Gionee did it for me. The leather cover you get with the package is cool and smells really good.
Video: 9.5/10
I have 42 inch TV and I am at home yet I prefer to watch serials on this beauty. The player is interactive with brightness, volume and rewind / forward is adjustable just by moving finger on the screen. Surely you could get that in other phones as well but the colors on the black screen looks really good. The leather cover though is simple but you can fold it and make the screen in a slant position which makes the viewing much better rather than keeping it on a slant surface. In short I love it.
Pictures:8/10 (The low ranking is because I have not used much of it)
Well this is much better than Samsung galaxy grand 2 which comes in the same price and almost same as Micromax Canvas knight when I checked with my friend and arguably better than it. Well I have not tried around with flash and at night, so will edit the review after some days of usage.
Music: (9/10)
I have used sony walkman series since long as I just love listening to music. I use my phone more as a music player then as a phone. I have got hold of this phone today only so I have not used it a lot but I could not stop myself from commenting on it. The music player(DTS effect) with bass,Focus and 3D effect setting is really cool. The clarity of the beats and the effects is better than most of the phones in its category. But arguably not that good when compared to sony ericson walkman series. When I say that I mean the first of the walkman series when they did not care much of the looks, this would be same or arguably better than walkman series you get this days for that range.
Touch Screen: (8/10):
The touch screen is good, nothing special about it. But do not worry the screen itself is really beautiful.
Of course if you compare with i phone 5 you could see some difference again 19 K and 46 K there is big difference in money but the difference in touch is less comparatively. One thing and the only thing i did not like with the touch is the finger prints left on the screen I keep cleaning it. But I have seen the same problem in samsung/micromax/LG/HTC. I had unlocked most of my friends phone based on the finger prints on most of the phones. So it is a common issue but really on such a beautiful screen you would feel uncomfortable to leave the fingerprints.
Speed:(10/10)
It is an octa core so I do not need much to say. I copied 1 gb data from my computer on to my phone in just under a minute while nokia lumia and samsung grand 2 took much more on the same machine almost 5 times more. Again arguably from the specs you can say micromax Knight is slightly faster but when you play it side by side you would not see any difference in speed.
Cons as pointed out by other reviewers on the web:
Heating: I have read lot of reviewers talking about the heat and that was the reason why I was a little hesitant to buy this. The first day itself I used it for playing games around 30 minutes and watching videos and listening music for around 2 hours and the heating was slight probably the leather cover decreased the heat. And after that I plugged it for charging and I thought it would heat up again as my nokia phone use to heat up on charging and for my surprise it did not. Well I been doing something with this phone like listening to music/ playing games/watching videos and charging and I could say it is nothing even close to heating up like that you cannot bear with or hold the phone.
Yes while playing high end games like FiFA and Asphalt 8 it gets heated up near the camera area but again it is manageable.
Battery life: Other comments I had read online was its battery life was not that good. Again I dis agree to I used for gaming around half an hour and watching music for half an hour and video for 1 and half hour and it was down to 78%. 22% for continuous usage for 2 and half hour which I think is ok as compared to its competitors. Anyways such phones require to be charged once a day if you are doing something with it the whole day.
Software: Amigo, I do not know why such a fuss on it. I did not feel anything wrong with it. Nothing special but nothing as well. I am not sure, probably I am from a different planet. Yes there was no need for gionee to built a custom software on top of android. But I did not have any problems with it either.
Cons as per me:
Upgrade to kitkat: I am not sure if everyone had this problem. But after update my videos are not playing properly.
The sound and lip sink does not match. I downloaded Mx Player and had to delay the sound by 1 sec or so. But again it plays videos as if it is slow which becomes quite evident. Also for me there was no noticible change in speed or anything. I would surely downgrade to Jelly bean. In fact I am trying to find ways to do it. For those who love watching movies I would not encourage to upgrade. I did not find any use of upgrading.
Storage : I think it could have done 32 GB instead of 16 GB internal memory for that money as Micromax knight is giving it. But again it is just me and i do not think it takes away that much of the phone.
Game playing: I do not know if it just me but playing games like Asphalt 8 and FIFA with touch movement, I use to keep clicking the home button on the bottom and the game use to vanish then I had to click the home button again and click on the game to resume it. This happened quite frequently before I learned how to avoid it and it happens some times now as well but it is very rare now.
Ear phones: Again it is just me, I think white earphones for a black beauty does not go well, I would have loved it to be black. But the ear phones have nice design with beautiful thin flat wire and perfectly shaped ear plugs for your ears. Just it should have been black for me to let it go well with the phone.
Again I cannot take my eyes off this beauty, sorry for boring with this statement but it really is. You can see the unboxing videos to know what I am talking about but still it looks very very good in your hand, the slimmest phone ever made as of yet.
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