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When we first heard of Gionee, we jumped the gun in thinking that it’s just another Chinese smartphone brand trying to shove its way into a crowded Indian market. While being an ODM for many big brands across the globe, Gionee is now trying to establish themselves as a smartphone brand and we must say they’re doing a stellar job at that. HTC started out in a similar manner around a decade ago and it seems like Gionee is taking that same path. TheirElife E3 packed with great features and performance for the price and now, we take a look at their recently launched flagship – the Elife E6. We spent some time with the handset at the launchand here's our final take on it after having used it for a couple of weeks.
Design and Build The E6 is easily the best built Chinese droid we’ve come across to date. The unibody plastic chassis lends an understated premiumness to the phone and the matt texture keeps fingerprints at bay, for the most part. The E6 is fairly slim at 7.9mm and light as well. There are three capacitive buttons in the front and a 5MP front-facing camera up top. The buttons on the side are well placed although we would have liked it better if the power button was on the side rather than on top. 
Easily one of the best looking Chinese droids in the market
The speaker grill is on the bottom along with the microUSB charging port. This design choice is also very reminiscent of Apple’s iPhone 5. Around the back, we just have the 13MP camera and a single LED flash. The Gionee branding is discretely placed at the bottom of the phone. Overall, the E6 scores full marks for design and aesthetics and easily rivals phones priced much higher. 
Sleek and understated look
Features The display is one of the highlights of the E6. Armed with a IPS Full HD panel at 5-inches diagonally, text is crisp and colours are rich and vibrant. To top it off, the OGS (One Glass Solution) and Gorilla Glass 3 gives the handset better sensitivity and scratch resistance. Sunlight legibility is strictly average however. The E6 comes with 4.2.1 but is heavily skinned with very little resemblance to stock Android. The skin is also incredibly laggy and very confusing as the icon set is completely different. The theme is more akin to iOS where all the apps are on the home screen instead of the app drawer system on stock Android. The UI performance improves slightly with Go Launcher but not by much. 
The UI may look pretty but it's not very user friendly
The E6 is powered by a Mediatek MTK6589T SoC running at 1.5GHz. There’s also 2GB of RAM onboard, a first we’ve come across in Chinese handsets. There’s no memory expansion but the 32GB onboard should keep most happy. The handset is bundled with a couple of apps from Gionee including support for gestures, OTA updates and Game Zone. There are a couple of productivity apps as well like file manager, office suite,flashlight etc., and the ability to change themes. We didn’t like the UI one bit as it’s too cluttered and very laggy. 
Fares well in benchmarks
Media The music player has a simple interface allowing you to quickly browse through your music through genres, album, artists, etc. There’s also DTS 3D Surround enhancement which helps over headphones. The volume level, however, is quite low and is not loud enough even with a good pair of IEMs. The same goes for the speaker volume as well. Alerts are difficult to hear in crowded environments. For video files, MKV's play back just fine as do Full HD videos. 
Media playback is hampered by the low volume output
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