Will this model become a real life product?

Apr 21, 2015 09:29 GMT  ·  By

Obscure Chinese manufacturer Elephone is slowly coming out of the shadow with more and more interesting products. Once, Xiaomi wowed the world with its cheap and decently specced handsets, and Elephone is now building upon this very same legacy.

Take the Elephone P7000 flagship which sells for around $200 / €187 and offers you a 5.5-inch 1080p display, 16MP main camera, octa-core MediaTek processor, 3GB of RAM, and a fingerprint ID.

According to Gizmo China, Elephone is prepping something even bigger. Apparently, the phone maker is currently present at the annual Hong Kong trade fair where it has demonstrated its upcoming and apparently still “secret” flagship.

The handset has pretty amazing specs, featuring a 2K display (we don’t know the format for the time being), an Intel processor under the bonnet (surprisingly no MediaTek this time), 4GB of RAM, fingerprint scanner, and an advanced 20.7MP Sony camera.

Elephone's next flagship will have dual-booting capabilities, maybe

But the most surprising part comes now. The phone will supposedly be capable of dual booting between Android 5.0 Lollipop and Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 10 platform. Which makes us raise an eyebrow.

The fact is that when ASUS tried offering the Transformer Book Duet tablet/laptop hybrid, which took advantage of both Windows and Android, Microsoft and Google did everything in their power to prevent this from happening.

In the end, ASUS had to renounce marketing the model, even if the company introduced it during a big media event at CES 2015.

However, in China things are a little bit different and manufacturers like Pipo have managed to put on the market dual-booting tablets. Still, a phone equipped with the same characteristics is yet to make an entry in retail.

We have to assume that, given the fact that Elephone’s reach extends over China, such a phone might actually become a real product.

Another possibility would be that Elephone plans to roll out two versions of the next-gen premium device, one with Windows and one with Android.

In addition to these specs, a purported render of the upcoming, unnamed phone has already surfaced, showing a device with a metal frame and extremely thin bezels.

It appears this will become the standard in 2015, at least as far as Chinese manufacturers are concerned. LeTV already released a bezeless trio of handsets and Oppo will probably follow suit soon.

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