If Motorola’s Droid Turbo is the Superman of big-battery smartphones, then Gionee’s Marathon M3 is probably Iron Man.
They say everything Western mobile phone manufacturers can pull off, the Chinese can do cheaper. Not necessarily better, but often just as good and much, much cheaper. Take Motorola’s most recent engineering feat, which saw a massive 3,900 mAh cell get fitted inside an 8.3 mm thin 5.2-inch handheld.
We bet you thought that would remain a world record for months, maybe years. Well, it took China-based OEM Gionee weeks to match and possibly top Turbo’s achievement. Looking merely at the numbers, there’s no comparing the Marathon M3 with Moto’s battery powerhouse.
Gionee’s monster somehow squeezes a 5,000, yes, 5,000 mAh juicer into a 10.4 mm slim package with a screen that’s 5 inches in diagonal. Put another way, Gionee shaved 0.2 inches off the display’s size, added 2 mm to the phone’s profile, and cranked up battery capacity by a whopping 1,100 mAh.
Sure, the long-distance runner is a little on the heavy side of things, tipping the scales at 180 grams, compared to the 169-gram Droid Turbo. Still, you can’t complain of unbearable bulk, and all things considered, 10.4 mm is actually quite slender.
Numbers don’t always tell the whole picture though, so it’d be better to hold off for a few reviews before proclaiming the Marathon M3 the new autonomy king. For now, we have Gionee’s enthusiastic claims to raise our blood pressure, with battery life estimated at up to 51 hours in continuous talk time, and 32.8 days (!) in standby.
As Gionee puts it, you won’t fear you’ll run out of power with the Marathon, you’ll “talk till you run out of things to talk about”. Available on Indian shores for the equivalent of $210, the M3 otherwise offers pretty much what you’d expect in that price range.
Overall underwhelming specs, that is, with 720p screen resolution, quad-core 1.3 GHz MediaTek processing power, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal storage, 8 MP/2 MP dual cameras and dual SIM support making up the very definition of mediocrity.
On the software side of things, Android 4.4 KitKat runs the show, but a custom-made UI called Amigo 2.0 is bound to frustrate Google purists. Oh, well, it’s not like we’ll ever see this thing run circles around the Western hemisphere. We can’t know that for sure, but we’re guessing Gionee plans to keep availability local.
Sources: Fone Arena , Gionee
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They say everything Western mobile phone manufacturers can pull off, the Chinese can do cheaper. Not necessarily better, but often just as good and much, much cheaper. Take Motorola’s most recent engineering feat, which saw a massive 3,900 mAh cell get fitted inside an 8.3 mm thin 5.2-inch handheld.
We bet you thought that would remain a world record for months, maybe years. Well, it took China-based OEM Gionee weeks to match and possibly top Turbo’s achievement. Looking merely at the numbers, there’s no comparing the Marathon M3 with Moto’s battery powerhouse.
Gionee’s monster somehow squeezes a 5,000, yes, 5,000 mAh juicer into a 10.4 mm slim package with a screen that’s 5 inches in diagonal. Put another way, Gionee shaved 0.2 inches off the display’s size, added 2 mm to the phone’s profile, and cranked up battery capacity by a whopping 1,100 mAh.
Sure, the long-distance runner is a little on the heavy side of things, tipping the scales at 180 grams, compared to the 169-gram Droid Turbo. Still, you can’t complain of unbearable bulk, and all things considered, 10.4 mm is actually quite slender.
Numbers don’t always tell the whole picture though, so it’d be better to hold off for a few reviews before proclaiming the Marathon M3 the new autonomy king. For now, we have Gionee’s enthusiastic claims to raise our blood pressure, with battery life estimated at up to 51 hours in continuous talk time, and 32.8 days (!) in standby.
As Gionee puts it, you won’t fear you’ll run out of power with the Marathon, you’ll “talk till you run out of things to talk about”. Available on Indian shores for the equivalent of $210, the M3 otherwise offers pretty much what you’d expect in that price range.
Overall underwhelming specs, that is, with 720p screen resolution, quad-core 1.3 GHz MediaTek processing power, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal storage, 8 MP/2 MP dual cameras and dual SIM support making up the very definition of mediocrity.
On the software side of things, Android 4.4 KitKat runs the show, but a custom-made UI called Amigo 2.0 is bound to frustrate Google purists. Oh, well, it’s not like we’ll ever see this thing run circles around the Western hemisphere. We can’t know that for sure, but we’re guessing Gionee plans to keep availability local.
Sources: Fone Arena , Gionee
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