If you are one of those cost conscious consumers out there, the Elephone G1 is one smartphone that wouldn’t take much chunk out of your wallet. The phone offers pretty basic specs but its $50 (around N9,000) price tag is very enticing.
Specs-wise the Elephone G1 features a 4.5-inch FWVGA (480 x 854 pixels) display, powered by a MediaTek MT6582M processor which clocks at 1.3GHz with Mali 400 GPU with 512MB of RAM. There is a 4GB space of internal storage which is insufficient but there is a microSD card slot which provides up to 32GB space more.
On the rear is a 5MP rear camera and a front facing 1.3MP camera. The Elephone G1 supports Dual SIM functionality (3G + 2G); runs on Android 4.4 Kitkat OS and packs a rather small 1800mAh battery which basically suits the device’s specs.
The Elephone G1 is still some way short of the steady rising Infinix Hot smartphone which replaces the hot selling Infinix Zero smartphone. You should know most Chinese local OEMS rarely make their devices available outside their home country; to get your hands on G1, an extra $15 has to be incurred.
PS: The Nigerian Naira is at the moment is loosing its grip on the US Dollar as such the exchange rate is not favourable for conversions as at post time (US$1 to N183).
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