The Marathon M4 sports a 5 inch HD Super AMOLED display with a screen resolution of 720x1280 pixels. It measures 144.7x71.2x10.18mm and will be available in Black and White color variants.
Being powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor along with 2GB Of RAM the device is based on Android 5.0 Lollipop and is layered with Gionee's own Amigo 3.0 UI on top. The UI comes with a specially designed music player as well.The storage options comprises of 16 GB of internal storage which is further expandable via microSD card up to 32 GB.
The 8 MP rear camera with LED flash is supplemented along with 5 MP selfie camera. The USP of course is the 5,000mAH battery which the company claims can deliver up to 400 hours of standby time and 18 hours of talk time on 3G network.
Connectivity features 4G, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Micro-USB, GPRS/ EDGE, GPS/ A-GPS, and Bluetooth options. The marathon M4 also comes with the “Hot Knot” feature that allows you to share files between two devices by gentling placing the screens together.
Key Features
Display - 5-inch (1280 × 720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display
Processor - 1.3 GHz quad-core processor with Mali 400 GPU
Storage - 2GB RAM, 16GB Internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with micro SD
OS - Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Amigo UI 3.0
SIM - Dual SIM with Dual Standby
Camera - 8MP Auto Focus Camera with LED flash and 5MP front-facing camera
Dimensions - 144.7×71.2×10.18mm
Weight - 176g
Connectivity - 4G LTE / 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, USB OTG
Battery - 5000mAh battery with up to 440h standby and up to 50h talk time
Price - Rs. 15,499/-
Concluding Word
Just like the name of the device the 5,000mAH battery will provide the users with opportunities of marathon browsing, texting or even talking without the worry of getting their battery drained out. With the Hot Knot feature sharing contents is much more easy and simpler. All metal body gives the device a sleek look in spite of the 5,000mAh battery it bears.
The new Gionee Marathon M4 will be up against the Android One series Lava Pixel V1 , Xolo Black and the recently released water-proof Motorola Moto G 2015.
