The company’s ‘S’ series consists of premium handsets and we saw the launch of Gionee S6 earlier this year. Chinese company now Gionee S6 The upgraded variant of the Gionee S6S has been launched. Gionee claims that ‘Selfie Flash’ is one of the biggest features of this smartphone. Gionee claims that its goal is young customers from 18 years to 25 years who are fond of selfie with new handsets.
But will the Gionee S6S be able to compete with this price with a great design made from Unibody metal? Learn in the review.
Look and design
The gionee S6S with unibody design is convenient when caught in the hands. The edges made of its metal give great grip. But the Gionee S6S with 166 grams weight is slightly heavy according to its size.
The front of the phone has a 5.5 inch 2.5D curved display that comes with Corning Gorilla Glass Coating. While the rear of the phone is made of metal. The phone has a gold lining on the side on the rear, which gives the phone a premium look. Gionee has given three capacitive buttons for back, home and recent, just like her second smartphone. The front camera is given above the display with an LED flash.
The rear panel of the phone has a rear camera with LED flash. And a fingerprint scanner is given just below the camera. Gionee’s new logo is under fingerprint scanner. There is a speaker grill at the bottom on the rear with the company’s branding. The phone has power and volume buttons on the right side on the right side while there is a hybrid SIM slot on the left. The bottom is a regular micro-USBB charging slot and a 3.5mm audio jack. The Gionee S6S, with a thickness of 8.15 millimeters, is not definitely the most slim smartphone available in the market but it did not seem inconvenient during use.
However, we want to tell that if the ‘Gionee’ branding is removed from the handset’s rear, the S6S could easily get an illusion of being a smartphone of Oppo, Huawei or Leico. The rear panels of many handsets coming with metal unibody design are now coming from all sides. For example, in addition to the lines and lines above and below the handset, the placement of the camera is all of one kind.
The company has launched India in Late Gold and Mocha Gold color. We found the Late Gold Unit for the review.
The 5.5 inch full HD display given in the phone is sharp and quite bright. We were able to use the S6S smartphone very well in sunlight. We did not have any problem with the viewing viewing angle of use. The Gionee S6S has an in-cell IPS display. Watching a movie on the phone and playing games was also a fun experience and during this time we had no problem.
Overall, the design of Gionee S6A is quite good and the phone’s texture is fantastic. However, the edges of the handset could be more rounded for easy use.
Specification and software
The Gionee S6S has a 5.5 inch full HD (1080×1920 pixels) IPS display and comes with Corning Gorilla Glass. The company has given 2.5D curved glass in S6S. The dual sim Gionee S6S runs on the Emigo 3.2 of the company that runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
This phone has a 1.3 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT 6753 processor. This phone has 3 GB RAM. It is worth noting that Gionee is one of the brands that are using the MediaTek chipset.
The S6S has a 13 -megapixel autofocus rear camera with Sony IMX 258 sensor, LED flash and F/2.0. This phone also has an 8-megapixel fixed-focus front facing camera with LED flash. The front camera also comes with aperture F/2.2 aperture and a 5P lens. Apart from this, the front camera also has screen flash support. The S6A has 32 GB inbuilt storage. This phone comes with a hybrid dual SIM card slot. Storage can be increased to 128 GB via microSD card.
Talk about connectivity, features like Gionee S6S4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 A/B/G/N, Bluetooth 4.0, 3.5mm headphone jack and micro-USB have been given. This phone has a 3150 mAh non-removable battery. There is a fingerprint sensor on the rear panel. The S6S comes with a regular micro USB slot. The Gionee S6S comes with a display protector film and a transparent case.
The Gionee S6S Company’s Emigo 3.2 Custom runs on Rome which is based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The S6S has some new visual effects which were not available in the previous phone. Users can now arrange the app with two new options on the home screen. The new app can be removed above or downwards with a cleanup. Apart from this, users with arranges can arrange the app in different pans.
As before, there is no app drawer in the phone and all apps appear on multiple home-screen. Many Chinese handset manufacturers have given a new look to their custom Android version, making these devices the first less app pre-loaded. However, this cannot be said for Gionee as many apps in the S6S already come to install. These include Gionee Zadar, Hotode, Compass, Mobile Anti-Theft App, G Store, System Manager and Mood Wallpaper. The Gionee S6S comes with its Chamilion app so that a color theme based color can be made by picking up a color from an object using the camera.
The Gionee S6S has many features such as fake calls, super screenshot tools, theme parks and extreme battery mode settings. Apart from this, other software features given in this phone Gionee Marathon M5 Plus ,ReviewIt was also seen in.
The software given in Gionee S6S definitely looks better than the marathon M5 Plus. The marathon runs on M5 Plus Amigo 3.1 based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. However, the biggest problem in the software is the app already installed apps that cannot be removed.
Performance
We had no problem during multi -tasking in Gionee S6S nor did there be any problem related to performance during everyday use. We noted that some frames dropped while playing Dead Trigger 2 in Gionee S6S. Apart from this, we also felt warmth in the phone while playing games for a long time, but during this time it never felt uncomfortable to use the phone.
The voice calls in Gionee S6S clearly get clear and we did not have any problem in this handset. We spent some time in reading e-book in Gionee S6S and we did not have any problem with the display. There was no problem in the phone during 4G connectivity, although we could not do VoLTE test in the phone
The Gionee S6S performance was fantastic and we were able to run something in the phone. In the benchmarking test, the phone found fine data.
We have to discuss the music app in the phone specially because it has a lot of twisting options. The audio quality from the speaker is fantastic and we are able to run loud music without any hassle. The speakers are not very good according to watching the movie for a long time.
The Gionee S6S has a 13 -megapixel rear camera with a Sony sensor. And we took some good pictures with good details and accurate color from the camera. However, there is a lack of detailing on zoom and cropping pictures taken from the phone. But pictures taken in low light than S6S Marathon M5 Plus Are far better than
The biggest feature of Gionee S6S has been told by the company to its front camera. The best selfie from the phone comes with an accurate color if the light is good. However, the quality of selfie in low light is not as better. Gionee has given a video flash along with front flash to make the selfie better. But even this flash does not work too much.
We liked the camera app of Gionee S6S and it launches quickly. We did not face any kind of problem in the app. Apart from this, the camera has features like Panorama, Slow Motion, Macro, Night, Time Laps, Text Recognition, HDR, Professional, Smart Scene, Ultra Pixel, Mood Photo, Picnot, Ziff and Smart Scan. Apart from this, the camera app also has other features like Scene Mode, Exposure and White Balance. A video can be recorded up to 1080 pixels from the rear camera.
battery life
The Gionee S6S smartphone has a 3150 mAh non-removable battery. In our video loop test, the battery of Gionee S6S for 13 hours 10 minutes which cannot be called bad. The S6S battery runs more than its previous smartphone S6.
During simple use, the Gionee S6S lasted more than a day. Once full charge, we were able to run the phone for more than 30 hours. The phone took just 2 hours to charge up to 100 percent from zero. However, this phone does not support fast charging.
Our decision
Gionee S6S is a great package with S6S all-metal design for Rs 17,999. But the company is selling this smartphone as the best selfie available in the market and we were not very impressed by the performance of the phone in low light.
Apart from this, we did not like the overall performance of the phone and we did a serious work and felt a problem like heat in the phone and frame drop during gaming. The Gionee A6S is a fine phone overall. We had no problem during the daily use in the phone.
There are a lot of phones in the market at a price of Rs 15,000 which come with the same specifications like Gionee S6S. We have to see how Gionee will establish itself in the market. Due to the low price of S6S, the company can succeed in the market for this smartphone in the market. The Gionee S6S has a major advantage that it is easily available on the offline retailer in the market.