Gionee S11 Lite

Gionee seems to have taken a page out of Intex/Karbonn's book and decided to release half a dozen or so devices simultaneously, each with a brilliantly confusing name. The recently released Gionee S11 got two new siblings, the Gionee S11s and the Gionee S11 Lite. Thankfully, it appears that the newly announced devices will all be bezel-less, maintaining the 18:9 aspect ratio.

The Gionee S11 Lite has a 5.7-inch IPS LCD panel with a resolution of 720x1440. An FHD Plus screen would have been ideal, but it would be asking too much, considering the price. The primary camera is 13+2-megapixels with LED flash and the secondary camera is 16-megapixels. The Bokeh Selfie mode in the front shooter stands out, explicitly, about the cameras, with Gionee playing it safe and putting in the standard hardware found in similarly found devices.

Thankfully, this time around, Gionee avoided a MediaTek SoC and went for a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 chipset instead. Clocked at 1.4GHz, it offers just the right amount of processing power to run the 720p panel. The 4GB of RAM is paired with 64GB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 128GB via a micro SD card. The battery on the S11 Lite is a bit underwhelming, at only 3,030mAh. The device is expected to run Android Nougat 7.1.1 out of the box.

The Gionee S11 is your standard dual SIM 4G/VoLTE capable device with basic connectivity features such as Bluetooth, GPS, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and a micro USB port for charging and data transfer. The fingerprint sensor is rear-mounted and sits towards the centre of the back panel. Other sensors include a Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Ambient light sensor and a magnetometer. Nothing stands out about the S11 Lite, and it has been designed to be just another mid-range smartphone, one of several hundred out there.