Look and design
Seeing the M5 Plus from a distance, it looks very strong and along with a completely metal body phone. This is not the case in reality. Gionee Marathon is the M5 Plus frame metal, but despite this, it gives a strong feeling when kept in hands. It is 8.4 millimeters of slim compared to the 8.6 millimeter thickness of the marathon M5. Sadly, despite being thinner, both have only 211 grams of weight. If the Xiaomi Mi Max (Review) is noticed, then this phone, which comes with a 6.44 inch display, weighs 203 grams.
The marathon M5 Plus has a 6-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) AMOLED display. Its pixel density is 480 PPI which means that photos and text will be quite sharp. The display is quite bright and color production is also good. There is not much difficulty in reading anything on the display in sunlight.
Despite the price of Rs 25,000, the Marathon M5 Plus does not have the Corning Gorilla Glass or Asahi Glass Protection. The physical home button has a fingerprint scanner. It is easy to use it by placing the phone in one hand. The front camera is at the top on the right, next to the earpiece.
Primary camera and LED flash are present on the rear part. The new Gionee logo is in the middle of the rear panel. Text Gionee has also written on the company speaker grill, probably the company is not fully convinced about its identity with new people. The dual-sim tray is on the left and microSD tray right side. The M5 Plus has two micro-SIMs. The USB is at the bottom of the Type-C port and the 3.5mm jack phone.
Overall, the marathon M5 Plus gives a feeling of being stronger than its many rivals. Users who like watching videos and playing games will like a 6 -inch screen. Sometimes it is not easy to use it in one hand due to large displays and weight. We also want the back and recent buttons to be backlit so that they are easy to use.
Specification and software
The marathon M5 uses a quad-core MediaTek MT6735 chipset, while the Marathon M5 Plus has a 1.3 GHz MT6753 processor with a 1.3 GHz clock speed. It is present with 3 GB RAM. Inbuilt storage is 64 GB which users will be able to increase through microSD card up to 128 GB. There is no change in the RAM compared to the marathon M5, but the storage has been increased.
Talking about the software, the marathon M5 Plus runs on the Amigo 3.1 skin based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. It is quite old. It took us some time to meet the software of the marathon M5 Plus. Some shocking changes have been made, such as the absence of a togle switch in the dropdown notification shed. To reach the shortcuts of functions such as airplane mode, Wi-Fi, cellular data, Bluetooth, GPA, screen rotation, the user must swipe the upper side on the handset screen.
Many apps of Gionee will be installed in advance. The marathon M5 Plus has two home screens with several types of apps. Gionee has used UC browser in this handset, which is quite clean and easy to use. It also has a system manager app that comes with RAM cleaner, cache cleaner, app manager, app freezer, power manager and eco mode.
It also has two power saving mode. We felt the extreme mode of use, especially when our phone’s battery was reduced during review.
Performance
The biggest change in Android phones is about RAM. With its help, multitasking becomes easier. We got to see the marathon M5 Plus. Despite running about two dozen apps in the background, this phone never stopped. However, we had some difficulty in using the UC browser app. The Jestore and Mood Wallpapers app crashed many times which was disappointing. But the update for the handset during the review was removed from this deficiency.
Generally, 1 GB of RAM remains free in the marathon M5 Plus. Even though it runs on the old Android version, with the help of Amigo UI Customization you will be able to keep an eye on the app that are consumed by data and other resorts.
Talking about gaming, M5 Plus easily played a game with heavy graphics. The call quality was also good. The fingerprint reader on the home screen also gave good response. One thing to keep in mind that if your fingers are wet then this fingerprint scanner will not work.
Gionee Marathon M5 Plus benchmark figures were not extremely spectacular. Overall, the performance of the marathon M5 Plus can be called fine. But given the price, we expected better results. Sometimes it takes some time to start some apps that bother. This price does not justify the price right from anywhere.
The Gionee Marathon M5 Plus has a 13 -megapixel autofocus rear camera and a 5 -megapixel front camera is present. The camera app works fast. As a user, you will have many features in the camera app. It is a matter of regret that the phone has not been given Pro mode like the marathon M5.
The rear camera took good pictures, especially in terms of color. However, there was a problem of over-sequence in a lot of light. Outdoor shots looked good on the phone’s screen, but they saw the lack of details after zoom in.
We were able to take fine pictures in the appropriate light with a 5 megapixel front camera. Pictures taken in low light were high in noise. We want its camera to have the ability to capture slow motion video. But support is not available for this.
battery life
Marathon M5 Plus Company’s old handset in battery life test Marathon M4 He managed to defeat, but lagged behind the marathon M5 with a big battery. Its 5020 mAh battery lasted for 21 hours and 52 minutes in our video loop test. The phone battery lasted for about three days without recharging in common use.
The phone has a USB Type-C port and it is possible to charge it faster than the M5. It took about 3 hours to charge the handset’s battery from zero to 100 per cent, which looks right given the big battery.
Our decision
The Gionee Marathon M5 Plus of Rs 26,999 is better than the marathon M5 (review), even if it has a small battery. However, the price looks more, but the consumer fingerprint sensors and the USB Type C port are willing to loosen their pockets and loosening.
If you talk about battery life, then the marathon M5 Plus manages to defeat the second phone of its price range easily. The most important feature of this phone is the battery life. If the entire experience is taken into consideration, the marathon M5 Plus of its price range OnePlus 3 ,Review) And Xiaomi Mi 5 ,Review) Like not able to challenge the popular phone.