Less than a month after the Gionee M6S Plus was certified by TENAA for the Chinese market, Gionee has officially announced the smartphone as promised. The phablet device succeeds last year’s Gionee M6 Plus and maintains the 6020mAh battery with fast charging support with dual charging chip.
The Gionee M6S Plus has a 6-inch AMOLED 2.5D curved glass display with 1920 x 1080 pixels (Full HD) screen resolution, Dual SIM slots, home button embedded fingerprint sensor and unsurprisingly still runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS with the company’s Amigo OS 3.5 UI.
On the inside, rather than continue with a Mediatek processor the company opts for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 chipset with a 1.95GHz octa-core CPU and an Adreno 510 GPU, paired with 6GB of RAM and 256GB built-in storage. While there is also a cheaper 64GB storage option, both are expandable up to 256GB via microSD card.
Photography is handled a rear facing 12MP main camera with dual pixel focus tech, f/1.9 aperture and 1.4μm Pixel size along with a front placed 8MP camera with f/2.0 aperture and also with 1.4um pixel size. Connectivity options include – 4G VoLTE, Dual Band Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, and USB OTG.
The Gionee M6S Plus also has an EAL4+ certification, offering two-level fingerprint encryption and the Chinese model adds an embedded encrypted chip to secure user’s personal data as well as secured calls and SMS. The 6/64GB model costs CNY 3499 (US$ 508) while the 6/256GB model costs CNY 4299 (US$ 625).
