Gionee Elife E6 and the birth of a Smartphone

It looks just like the battle for reasonable smartphone flagships is heating up. Hot on the heels of TCL / Alcatel's tasty $280 Idol X comes word of Gionee's ELIFE E6, additionally speech act a 5-inch 1080p display, 1.5GHz quad-core processor (MediaTek MT6589T) with 2GB RAM and 13-megapixel BSI camera with flash. Additionally to those main specs, the Chinese smartphone allegedly packs a 5MP front-facing camera and 2000mAh+ battery, runs android 4.2.1 (Jellybean) and options a svelte 8mm profile. Gionee is formally expected to launch the ELIFE E6 in Beijing on Gregorian calendar month tenth for somewhere between $320 and $360. Handiness is unknown, however with MediaTek\'s SoC supporting each 42Mbps HSPA+ and TD-SCDMA (no LTE here, folks), this phone is probably going destined to China, India and alternative APAC nations.