Gionee Elife S5.5 vs Xperia T3 Ultra: Which one’s a better slim phone?

Smartphone manufacturers these days are turning towards innovative design philosophies to make their devices stand out from the rest. Slim phones are the new thing in the mid-range segment and companies are working pretty hard these days to plonk in an impressive set of specs in the devices with a really slim waistline. Gionee is the one at the top with the Elife S5.5 being the slimmest one in the world (5.5mm) and Sony has launched the Xperia T3 (7mm) to rival it. Let us take a look at their comparitive specifications:

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Display: The Gionee Elife S5.5 has a 5 inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top of it. It looks and performs better than the 5.3 inch display of the Xperia T3 which has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and comes with Bravia Engine for a better colour reproduction.

Processor and RAM: The Elife S5.5 comes with a 1.7 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor which gets coupled with a 2GB RAM to deliver a performance that is better than the 1.4 GHz Snapdragon 400 coupled with a 1GB RAM of the Xperia T3. It is not like the latter is a bad performer but it’s just the octa-core performs better and it has more RAM to work with. But all is not good with the Elife S5.5 as it gets really hot even during normal tasks like calling. Gionee needs to act on this and may be improve it using software updates.

Sony Xperia T3

Sony Xperia T3

Storage Capacity: The Elife S5.5 has an internal storage capacity of 16GB and that is pretty much it. There’s no expandable storage. The Xperia T3 on the other hand comes with 8GB  of internal storage capacity but makes up for the same by providing a microSD card slot which will supports cards of up to 32GB.