Elephone P8000 - 3GB RAM, 16GB ROM, 64 bit Octa-core CPU

davidom2513

Spotted this on HUKD

Excellent phone for the price. £110 delivered.

The only thing that puts me off is that GPS doesn't work on Mediatek processors. I had a Jiayu G4 with mtk6589, but have since moved onto a Xiaomi Redmi 2, with Snapdragon processor

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/elephone-p8000-3-different-colours-3gb-ram-16gb-rom-64-octa-core-cpu-4150mah-nfc-2236845?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=07012015&utm_campaign=Daily%2BHot

GBX

Its only on presale at that price on the basis you get a coupon code - not necessarily available at the the price stated. So might not turn out to be a BA in the end. As stated on Elephone.HK 50000+ coupon codes have gone out.

davidom2513

Taken from the HUKD thread:

Go to the following website:

http://www.elephone.hk/

Enter one of the codes which are updated daily from here:
http://special.focalprice.com/710-Elephone_P8000.html?Source=ls&siteID=Us.jqA_Gjao-bdFasknwDRvnjlqVoplJKA&publisher=Us*jqA/Gjao

(Currently ELE2881296632, ELE9450197135, ELE6580714845, ELE5040813596, ELE1181796618 as at 23:00 on 30/06)

You will be given a code starting with FC, e.g. FC100080

Enter this code into your basket on FocalPrice - it will give you a $40 discount (or £25 ish if you are shopping in GBP)

It is being released in July so you should have it by the end of July most likely.

GBX

Fair enough but bear in mind the delays with the P7000 when it was released on presale and the backlog of orders, you may not have this by the end of July.

stephenbrett

Be very wary if you are impatient. The P7000 has equally impressive specs and I got one in a flash sale on May 26th - still waiting more than a month later and no phone yet and I have ordered using DHL. The Elephone P7000 was been officially released for sale in May. Elephone are a small company who manufacture to order in order to keep their costs down (much like One Plus One with their invite system).

If you go for this deal, it will not be in your hands until maybe the end of August if you are lucky. Great phones, but you do need to have great patience! I'm sticking with my order as the phone looks good and I paid with paypal so very secure if there is a problem.
Check out the elephone forum on Elephone's official website to get a flavour of the impatience and frustration on offer.

Casshern88

I was thinking about getting this phone but after looking more closely at reviews , the black border around screen really put me off, the phone appears to have very thin bezels but in fact the screen doesn't take up the whole available space , there is a black border the whole way around the screen that is part of the screen.

NATLOR

stephenbrett wrote: »

Be very wary if you are impatient. The P7000 has equally impressive specs and I got one in a flash sale on May 26th - still waiting more than a month later and no phone yet and I have ordered using DHL. The Elephone P7000 was been officially released for sale in May. Elephone are a small company who manufacture to order in order to keep their costs down (much like One Plus One with their invite system).

If you go for this deal, it will not be in your hands until maybe the end of August if you are lucky. Great phones, but you do need to have great patience! I'm sticking with my order as the phone looks good and I paid with paypal so very secure if there is a problem.
Check out the elephone forum on Elephone's official website to get a flavour of the impatience and frustration on offer.

Open to correction here but i think you have to to file a Paypal claim within 45 days of purchase, if so you are pretty close to that deadline

CreepingDeath

I had initially pre-ordered a P8000, but cancelled and ordered the P7000.
The P8000 has

• Slower CPU ( 1.7Ghz Vs 1.5Ghz )
• No Gorilla Glass
• No OTG support for the USB (so it won't work with the Seek Thermal IR Camera add-on I have ordered too)
• P8000 does not have a replaceable battery
• P7000 has a Sony camera, as opposed to the P8000 Samsung camera (apparently worse?)

So, I'm sticking with the P7000 for the moment.
Ordered... but no sign of shipping with FocalPrice yet.

corks finest

Less spec than on previous telephone,and no gorilla glass

Del007

It says that the p8000 has Corning gorilla glass 3

What does that actually mean?

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Del007 wrote: »

It says that the p8000 has Corning gorilla glass 3

What does that actually mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass

It's a toughened glass used on phone screens, to help with scratches and drops. Most flagships have them.

stephenbrett

Still have 9 days I think - seller is promising to post any day now so waiting (im)patiently!

Curb Your Enthusiasm

stephenbrett wrote: »

Still have 9 days I think - seller is promising to post any day now so waiting (im)patiently!

The seller is messing you around I think..

stephenbrett

Don't think it is the seller - Elephone handled the whole marketing and production of the P7000 terribly. They didn't produce enough and have not managed to supply enough to fulfil all orders, even though we are almost two months after launch. I'll stick with the order for now but am sitting by the cancel order button just in case as the days tick by - only sticking by it as the specs are so good and the price was so low. Intrigued by the phone and the whole process is great training for my impatient manner!

Curb Your Enthusiasm

stephenbrett wrote: »

Don't think it is the seller - Elephone handled the whole marketing and production of the P7000 terribly. They didn't produce enough and have not managed to supply enough to fulfil all orders, even though we are almost two months after launch. I'll stick with the order for now but am sitting by the cancel order button just in case as the days tick by - only sticking by it as the specs are so good and the price was so low. Intrigued by the phone and the whole process is great training for my impatient manner!

Cancel the order altogether and get something like this locally for around the €150 mark when its released in the coming weeks - http://www.gsmarena.com/vodafone_smart_ultra_6-7313.php

Full Irish warranty and no bull****.

corks finest

From all sites I saw,no g glass

Yamanoto

Techmaster wrote: »

Cancel the order altogether and get something like this locally for around the €150 mark when its released in the coming weeks - http://www.gsmarena.com/vodafone_smart_ultra_6-7313.php

Full Irish warranty and no bull****.

Are you on commission here?

Seriously, you're pimping vodaphone Android handsets all over bargain alerts something terrible.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Yamanoto wrote: »

Are you on commission here?

Seriously, you're pimping vodaphone Android handsets all over bargain alerts something terrible.

Nope, just a fan of their handsets. :rolleyes:

Keep your accusations to yourself.

davidom2513

Techmaster wrote: »

Cancel the order altogether and get something like this locally for around the €150 mark when its released in the coming weeks - http://www.gsmarena.com/vodafone_smart_ultra_6-7313.php

Full Irish warranty and no bull****.

Great specs for the price

Can it be unlocked?

Curb Your Enthusiasm

davidom2513 wrote: »

Great specs for the price

Can it be unlocked?

£4 to unlock on eBay I believe.

davidom2513

Excellent, thanks, might look into that!

curranbaz

Is €169.99 on Pay as You Go

shop.vodafone.ie/shop/phones/vodafone-smart-ultra-6-pay-as-you-go-anthracite

RossieMan

Getting seriously sick of this Vodafone promotion crap that's been going on. Its like the moto g crap from yesterday years. Its a fine phone for under 100, but some people want more than a crappy budget handset.

T-Bird

RossieMan wrote: »

Getting seriously sick of this Vodafone promotion crap that's been going on. Its like the moto g crap from yesterday years. Its a fine phone for under 100, but some people want more than a crappy budget handset.

There are other people who can't afford the luxury and seek the nearest alternative to the high and mighty high spec examples...


Tell me where you can get a phone of that spec in Europe for less than 200?

RossieMan

Any of the Chinese EU warehouses. Amazon have some decent devices at that price.

T-Bird

RossieMan wrote: »

Any of the Chinese EU warehouses. Amazon have some decent devices at that price.

I know the sites and have plenty of Chinese phones. You wont get one with those specs for the price Vodafone are selling it for.

BTW this is the new ultra not the normal smart 6

Specs

corwill

T-Bird wrote: »

I know the sites and have plenty of Chinese phones. You wont get one with those specs for the price Vodafone are selling it for.

Ah you will, though, plenty as good and better. But maybe not so much cheaper or better as to discount the convenience of being able to get a Smart Ultra 6 in a bricks n' mortar shop and the real warranty that comes with it.

It'll be interesting to see if it gets a similar price drop to the Smart Prime 6.

degsie

T-Bird wrote: »

I know the sites and have plenty of Chinese phones. You wont get one with those specs for the price Vodafone are selling it for.

BTW this is the new ultra not the normal smart 6

Specs

No 4G support! That's a show stopper!

corwill

degsie wrote: »

No 4G support! That's a show stopper!

It has 4g, according to Vodafone site.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

degsie wrote: »

No 4G support! That's a show stopper!

It clearly does have 4G.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/vodafone-smart-ultra-6-is-a-full-hd-4g-phablet-that-won-t-break-the-bank-1297269

degsie

Techmaster wrote: »

It clearly does have 4G.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/vodafone-smart-ultra-6-is-a-full-hd-4g-phablet-that-won-t-break-the-bank-1297269

The supplied link above didn't show 4G support if anybody checked.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

degsie wrote: »

The supplied link above didn't show 4G support if anybody checked.

GSMArena is not always correct. The phone is still pretty new and the users the site relies on obviously have not updated their spec sheet.

T-Bird

degsie wrote: »

The supplied link above didn't show 4G support if anybody checked.

Yeah that site can be misleading at times. Wanted to use the Vodafone site, but boy are they bad at describing their products.

steveluigi

I received an email yesterday from Focalprice where I bought my P8000 the day before, apologising for the delay in getting stock of the phone, and saying they will have it on the 25th July.

steveluigi

I got my Elephone P8000 for £110 delivered, which has the following specs:

Technology GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz 3G: 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz 4G: 800, 1800, 2100, 2600 SIM Type: Dual SIM (Micro-SIM, Dual Standby) OS: Android 5.1 Lollipop Design Dimensions: 155 x 76 x 9.2 mm Weight: Display: 5.5-inch, 1920×1080 pixels (400 ppi), IPS Capacitive Touchscreen Hardware Processor Type: 64 bits Octa-core Processor Processor Name: MediaTek MT6753 Graphics Processor: Mali-T720MP RAM: 3 GB Internal Storage: 16GB External Storage: Up to 64GB micro SD card Camera Rear: 13.0 mega pixel,Auto Focus, Flash Light (Sony Lens IMX214 f/2.0) Video recording: 1080p Front-facing: 5 MP Camera Multimedia Music Support: AAC, MP3, WAV, OGG Loudspeaker: Mono Video Support: AVI, MP4, FLV, 3GP, MOV, ASF, MPEG, RMVB, H.263, H.264 Radio: – FM Radio Connectivity Bluetooth: v4.0 WiFi: WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, 2.4G/5G dual band support USB: microUSB v2.0, USB Host NFC: No GPS: Yes Miscellaneous Touch ID Fingerprint scanner Availability: June 2015 Battery: 4165 mAh

Sort of puts any Vodafone product for the same price to shame?

steveluigi

I got my Elephone P8000 for £110 delivered, which has the following specs:

Technology GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz 3G: 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz 4G: 800, 1800, 2100, 2600
SIM Type: Dual SIM (Micro-SIM, Dual Standby)
OS: Android 5.1 Lollipop
Design Dimensions: 155 x 76 x 9.2 mm Weight:
Display: 5.5-inch, 1920×1080 pixels (400 ppi),
IPS Capacitive Touchscreen
Hardware Processor Type: 64 bits Octa-core Processor
Processor Name: MediaTek MT6753
Graphics Processor: Mali-T720MP RAM:
3 GB Internal Storage: 16GB External Storage:
Up to 64GB micro SD card Camera Rear: 13.0 mega pixel,Auto Focus, Flash Light (Sony Lens IMX214 f/2.0)
Video recording: 1080p Front-facing: 5 MP Camera
Multimedia Music Support: AAC, MP3, WAV, OGG
Loudspeaker: Mono
Video Support: AVI, MP4, FLV, 3GP, MOV, ASF, MPEG, RMVB, H.263, H.264
Radio: – FM Radio
Connectivity Bluetooth: v4.0 WiFi: WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, 2.4G/5G dual band support
USB: microUSB v2.0,
GPS: Yes
Miscellaneous Touch ID Fingerprint scanner Availability: June 2015 Battery: 4165 mAh

Sort of puts any Vodafone product for the same price to shame?

Del007

Do you have it already?

steveluigi

It's not released until July 25th. It's only on pre-sale now

Del007

When you said that you got it, I thought u meant that u had it already. I've it pre booked as well, more than likely going to cancel it

steveluigi

Del007 wrote: »

When you said that you got it, I thought u meant that u had it already. I've it pre booked as well, more than likely going to cancel it

Why cancel it?

Del007

No idea when I'll actually get it plus faster cpu in other phones

steveluigi

I have a galaxy s4 at the mo and rhe screen has cracked. It would cost more to repair the screen then the p8000 has cost. I can still use the s4 so willing to wait til p8000 comes as not in a hurry. Not sure you'd notice the smaller processor to be honest, and for just over 100 quid?

daveyjoe

Any smaller phones? My Girlfriend's HTC One (M7) was stolen last night so she's looking for a new phone cheapish but 5.5" is too big.

Del007

Have u thought about the amAzon fire phone?

It's £99 on Amazon for both the 32 and 64 gb versions and is 4.7"

daveyjoe

Del007 wrote: »

Have u thought about the amAzon fire phone?

It's £99 on Amazon for both the 32 and 64 gb versions and is 4.7"

Price looks good but the restricted app store worries me. Presumably since it's not released in Ireland none of the Irish apps would be available (Bank apps, The Journal, Newstalk, Parkmagic, Pumps.ie etc..).

Bizi

To anyone considering ordering the p8000 I recommend reading the various chinaphone reviews at gizchina since the P7000 is reviewed and there is a lot of useful background about each manufacturer.

I °was° pumped at the time to get the P7000 but the big screen bezel put me off.
Luckily I waited for the gizchina review and it had a ton of caveats.

In the end I bought the top end Asus Zenfone 2 64gb/4gb. Not a bad phone and has potential for custom roms with recent news on xda-developers forums. 😺

Cantona's Collars

daveyjoe wrote: »

Any smaller phones? My Girlfriend's HTC One (M7) was stolen last night so she's looking for a new phone cheapish but 5.5" is too big.

http://www.coolicool.com/stock-in-europe-elephone-p6000-mtk6732-64-bit-quad-core-50-inch-hd-ogs-screen-android-44-4g-lte-sm-g-39000

http://www.coolicool.com/stock-in-europe-umi-zero-mt6592t-20ghz-octa-core-5-inch-fhd-super-amoled-corning-gorilla-glass-scre-g-35314

http://www.antelife.com/europe-warehouse-umi-hammer-mtk6732-1-5ghz-quad-core-5-0-inch-screen-android-4-4-4g-lte-smartphone.html

Oat23

daveyjoe wrote: »

Any smaller phones? My Girlfriend's HTC One (M7) was stolen last night so she's looking for a new phone cheapish but 5.5" is too big.

Vodafone Smart Prime is supposed to be decent.
http://shop.vodafone.ie/shop/phones/vodafone-smart-prime-6-pay-as-you-go-anthracite

degsie

Oat23 wrote: »

Vodafone Smart Prime is supposed to be decent.
http://shop.vodafone.ie/shop/phones/vodafone-smart-prime-6-pay-as-you-go-anthracite

Possible to unlock?

Oat23

degsie wrote: »

Possible to unlock?

Found this on google. - http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f719/vodafone-smart-prime-6-unlock-1956002/

Never unlocked any phone so haven't a clue about it to be honest.

Seems simple enough..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAxCu4v8Rs

Kristopherus

degsie wrote: »

Possible to unlock?

Try www.unlock.ie. Found them very good at unlocking a Huawei.