[Android General] Hendrickson:
There is another post on this phone here, but it's not a review, just a post with stats and a link to buy it... I've got this phone now with me, brought it for my wife who is always complaining of a low battery. So I thought this might do the trick since it has double the capacity of most mobiles. Let's find out if it's worth the $200 (aprox) I paid for it.

Unboxing and hands on video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYA9Xrv75aQ

Video review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgMFb5l3QY

Design:

The Elephone P5000 is made of plastic, although it looks like it has an outer metal frame I think it's just hard plastic made to look like metal. There are two sim slots, two speaker grills on the bottom and the left side there is the volume up and down rocker with the power button. On the top you'll find the 3.5mm jack, mirco usb port and nothing else, no IR blaster like my Note 4.

The feel of the phone is good, it's a tad on the heavy side thanks to that large battery it has. The rear battery cover is a matte black and is fairly resistant to finger prints.

The screen is one of the best features of the phone, it's 440 PPI so very sharp. But it's also clear and bright with good view angles. It looks like the HTC one super lcd type of screen. It has no gap between the glass and the lcd which is good to see, so it looks to be a laminated display.

Photos of the Elephone P5000:

Performance:

The phone has an octa core CPU, the MediaTek MT6592 which can hit a peak speed of 1.7GHZ, it has 2GB of ram. On the GPU side of things there is a Mali 450 MP4 GPU, which is still an okay GPU, but lacks the newest Open GL sport.

Below is the 3Dmark score of 4819, Antutu benchmark is 31k see video here Over the phone is snappy and I experienced no lag or stutters anywhere. The UI is nice a quick and doesn't look to bad at all for a stock launcher. Real Racing ran without a hitch and so did Dead Trigger 2.

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Features:

The P5000 comes with a finger print scanner, it works just like my Note 4 and is the swipe type. You have to swipe your fingers and register them. I found it works well, just like my Note 4. Sometimes it will miss a swipe, normally because it did it to fast or at a funny angle.

There is also a gesture feature, with things like double tap to turn on the screen. And there is sim management for when you're using dual sims.

Camera:

The front facing camera is 8MP and while that's a lot of pixels for a front facing camera it's of average quality, will do the job for skype and other video chat apps.

The rear facing camera is a 16MP shooter, I found the image quality to be nice in good lighting, but my unit has a blurry image on the right side of all photos. Seems to be a lens fault or hardware sensor issue maybe? Not good. Videos are in 1080p, and are fine, but the 3gp file format used is very good and leads to videos being overly compressed and pixelated.

Here are some sample images from the rear camera, if you zoom in notice that the right side is a little blurred?

Over all the camera I find is really disappointing considering mine has a defect blur on the right of the sensor. If you buy one you might get lucky and have a good camera. There is HDR mode, if you have a look at the photo of the castle tower house, the first one is without HDR and the second is with it. All other photos are with the scene mode and settings as default.

Recorded video camera sample:

http://youtu.be/9LrUg5BlUJ4

Sound & Speaker output:

The speaker output is average, and it's a mono speaker inside dispute the twin speaker holes on the bottom of the P5000. The 3.5mm jack output I found to be on the low side, not very loud or punchy. It defiantly lacks volume, something that could be address here on XDA by a mod or via an update.

Battery life:

The battery is a huge 5350maH, using battery calirator to read the mAH, it reported 4320 mAH, a little less than the advertised 5350 mah. The battery life does seem good, playing Dead Trigger 2, Real Racing 3 and then watching a movie. I had almost 3 hours screen on time for a loss of around 40% battery, 2 hours of that was gaming. This is without the power saving CPU feature on and using a high brightness. I also used GPS/ Maps and streamed youtube over Wifi. I would call it heavy use. So not too bad I think. With heavy use you should get around 2 days where as on other phones you would have to recharge half way.

I'm still testing the battery life so check back for updates on this.

Pros

Sharp 1080p screen with 440 PPI

Finger print scanner that works well.

Large battery and good battery life

Good performance Vs price

Decent build quality

Dual sim with expandable storage

No stutters or lag experienced in gaming or the UI

Cons:

Camera could take a decent picture if the right half wasn't blurred (Defective camera?)

3.5 mm headphone output is low, should be much louder.

Loudspeaker has an average output.

Usb cable connection sometimes erratic

Final verdict and rating

7/10

While it has a super battery and good performance, my unit was let down with a defective camera. The video quality could also be improved on, as the chip set is capable of much more. Headset volume output is to low and sometimes I had the usb data connection to my pc cut out and disconnect for no reason at all. However all in all for the price isn't not bad if you get a unit with a good camera.