Gionee Communication Equipment Co. Ltd.

Type	Private
Industry	Consumer electronics
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Liu Lirong (Chairman) Dr. Gio Sandher (Chairman)
Products	Mobile phones
Number of employees	8000
Subsidiaries	IUNI[1]
Website	global.gionee.com

Gionee (Gionee Communication Equipment Co. Ltd.) is a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.^[2] Founded in 2002,^[3] it is one of China’s largest mobile phone manufacturers.^[4] According to Gartner, its market share in China was 4.7% in 2012,^[5] and it has expanded into other markets, including India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Vietnam, Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines and Algeria.^[6]

Gionee Communication has two processing plants, Dongguan Jinming Electronics and Dongguan Jinzhong Electronics, with a total investment of more than RMB 80 million, a factory floor area of more than 20,000 square meters and the number of staff of beyond 1000 people. 

After 2010, Gionee started focusing on slimmer smartphone designs, and by 2014, Gionee held the title of the slimmest smartphone in the world with the Gionee Elife S5.5 whose body is only 5.5mm thick. Gionee launched an even thinner smartphone, the Gionee Elife S5.1, which is only 5.15mm thick.

Gionee plans manufacturing facility in India in two years

Gujarat is major market for Gionee's smartphones; company plans to open stores in Surat, Vadodara and other regions

BS Reporter  |  Ahmedabad  

January 16, 2015 Last Updated at 20:58 IST

Chinese handset maker Gionee plans to set up a manufacturing facility in India in the next couple of years, a senior company official said here on Friday.

In city to launch the first exclusive 'Gionee brand store', Arvind Vohra, India head, Gionee told reporters, "We plan to set up a manufacturing facility in India may be in the next couple of years. But, for that, we need the right 'ecosystem'."

Availability of infrastructure and conducive policies from Centre to boost manufacturing, Vohra said, would go a long way in deciding their launching manufacturing facility in the country.

The exclusive 'Gionee brand store' is located in western part of the city. Vohra added, "We have had an exceptional journey in India and have been able to establish ourselves as a powerful brand in the market in such a short span of time. The western market is an important region for Gionee in India and Gujarat contributes 10.5 per cent of our business."

He said Gujarat is a major market for Gionee's smartphones and added that the company plans to open its stores in Surat, Vadodara and other regions.

Gionee's devices are priced 10-15 per cent above Indian brands and 40-45 per cent below global brands, according to Vohra, who said that the average selling price of their device is in the range of Rs 7,500 to Rs 8,000.

The company, which managed to do business of Rs 500 crore in India in the last financial year, expects the business to rise five times and the number to touch Rs 2500 crore before the end of 2014-15.

To expand its retail presence across the country, the company, according to a press release, plans to open 250 brand stores across the country by the end of this financial year and increase its service centres to 750 from the existing 700 ones..

Established in 2002, Gionee Communication Equipment Co. Ltd is a company engaged in mobile device designing, research and development (R&D), manufacturing, sales in international markets, and mobile internet application services. The company currently sells over 23 million handsets per year worldwide and is ranked tenth in the world on the basis of smartphone market share.

Pressmedellande 150610 ang FPC1021 i Gionees smartphone Elife E8

Gionee annonserade den 10:e juni sin Android smartphone Elife E8, med FPC:s touchsensor FPC1021. 

Ordervärdet från denna telefonlansering är inkluderad i FPCs kommunicerade försäljningsprognos om + 1 500 MSEK för 2015.

Jörgen Lantto, VD på FPC, kommenterar: " Gionee är en ledande smartphone tillverkare i Kina och vi är stolta över att Gionee valde FPC1021 till sin första smartphone med touchsensor, Elife E8, som följer lanseringen 2014 av Gionee T1 med FPCs swipesensor. FPC1021 stödjer 360 graders fingerrotation, snabb svarstid och industriledande 3D bildkvalitet." 

Gionee lanserar sin nya smartphone Elife E8 med touchsensor

Kinesiska Gionee lanserar idag sin nya smartphone Elife E8 vid ett event i
Peking. Mobilen har en skärm på 6 tum, en processor från MediaTek och 3GB i
minne. Modellen är även utrustad med en touchbaserad fingeravtryckssensor
på baksidan.

I början av 2014 släppte Gionee en smartphone med linjesensorteknik från
Fingerprint Cards.

Gionee grundades 2002 och är en av de större mobiltillverkarna i Kina och
säljer sina produkter i över 40 länder. Företaget har bland annat varit
framgångsrika i Indien där de är en av de största aktörerna efter att under
2014 ha sålt 4 miljoner smartphones i landet.

Företaget lanserade även Marathon M5 på onsdagen, en smartphone som uppges
ha den längsta batteritiden i världen. Kapaciteten på batteriet är på hela
6.020mAh.


Stefan Linnér
stefan.linner@finwire.se, 0701-15 39 64
Nyhetsbyrån Finwire

New Gionee Elife E8 Renders Surface

Gionee is a China-based smartphone OEM which has been making smartphones for quite some time now. This company is best known for their Elife S5.1 handset which was the thinnest smartphone in the world when it launched last year. The company has announced the Elife S7 device during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona back in March, and they’re preparing to launch their new flagship soon it seems. The Elife E8 was certified in China a while back, and its specs have also popped up on GFXBench, not to mention that we’ve already seen some renders of the phone, and the company has teased the arrival of this handset a number of times as well.

That being said, two additional renders of the Elife E8 surfaced online, and you can check them out in the gallery down below. These two images should give you a pretty good look at the device considering that they show both the front, and the back of Gionee’s upcoming flagship. According to TENAA (China’s equivalent to FCC), the Elife E8 will feature a 6-inch QuadHD (2560 x 1440) AMOLED display along with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of in-built storage (expandable via microSD card up to 128GB). This handset will be powered by an octa-core SoC which will be clocked at 2.0GHz, and MediaTek is a probable manufacturer of that chip. The rear-facing camera of this handset will allegedly be able to produce 100-megapixel images by stitching a bunch of smaller images together, and according to info thus far, the Elife E8 will sport a 23-megapixel sensor on the back. The 8-megapixel snapper will be available on the front side of this device, and a 3,520mAh battery will reportedly be included as well. The Elife E8 will offer 4G LTE connectivity, and Android 5.0 Lollipop will come pre-installed on this device with Amigo OS on top of it. The device will measure 164 x 82.3 x 9.6mm and weight 207 grams. And last, but not least, this handset will offer a rear-facing fingerprint scanner, as you can see in the provided images.

The Gionee Elife E8 will be announced in June, though we still don’t know when exactly. This handset will be the company’s new flagship, and we’ll report back as soon as we get some new info regarding this handset, stay tuned for that.