Gionee, the Chinese smartphone manufacturing firm has launched Marathon series of massive battery-packing smartphones in China on Monday. Adding to the Marathon series of smartphones, the Chinese firm has unveiled the dubbed Marathon M5 Enjoy smartphone alongside the Marathon M5 Plus in China. The company has launched the new Marathon M5 Enjoy at an event held in Dongguan, China. The two handsets address one notable one notable omission from the original Marathon M5 specs sheet which is the fingerprint sensor.
Besides the launch of Marathon M5 Plus smartphone, Gionee also took wraps off another handset dubbed Marathon M5 Enjoy in China that sports a huge battery. The Marathon M5 Enjoy smartphone is priced at CNY 1,999 (approximately Rs. 20, 400). The smartphone is available for purchase from company’s official shopping website.
The Gionee Marathon M5 Enjoy bestows almost identical specifications with the original Marathon M5 smartphone except a lower battery capacity and rear camera resolution. The new Marathon M5 Enjoy also lacks the fingerprint scanner at the back panel. Alternatively, places it on the physical home button at the front. Check out the specs sheet of the Marathon M5 Enjoy smartphone!
Specifications
The Marathon M5 Enjoy sports a 5.5-inch HD 2.5D TFT IPS display with a pixel resolution of 720×1280 pixels along with a pixel density of 267ppi. The handset is powered by a 64-bit 1.5GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 SoC which is paired with 3GB RAM and Mali-T720 GPU. On the storage front, the smartphone includes an internal storage of 16GB which can be further expanded up to 128 GB via microSD card. The Marathon M5 Enjoy runs Amigo 3.1 based on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system.
On the Camera front, the device comes equipped with an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with CMOS sensor and LED flash. On the other side, the device bears a 5-megapixel front camera. The device measures 155 x 76 x 9mm and weighs 200 grams. It is a dual-SIM dual-standby smartphone that supports 4G LTE functionality. It is a metal-clad handset which is power-packed by a 5000mAh Li-Po battery.
The company claims that the smartphone can deliver 52 hours of talk time and 775 hours of standby time. The Chinese firm says that the physical home button takes 0.5 seconds to unlock the smartphone. The Marathon M5 Enjoy smartphone is exclusively available in Gold colour variant. During the event held in China, Gionee also launched its Marathon M5 Plus, which it has been taunting from past few weeks. The product has been initially launched in China, however, the company has not yet revealed the launch of its India variant.
According to Gionee, the smartphone may have slightly different hardware and software specifications. The significant business point of the Gionee Marathon M5 Plus and Gionee Marathon M5 Enjoy touted by the company is the smartphone’s long battery life. Gionee claims that it has optimised the battery to diminish the decline in its capacity compared to its original Marathon M5.