No chance to charge? Gionee M5 review with 6020mAh large battery

What do you value most when buying a mobile phone?

An octa-core processor with super performance? A high-resolution screen with pixels that can't be seen even with the Sharingan? An all-metal body? Or the so-called super borderless design?

However, as an electronic product, without electricity, a smartphone can only be regarded as a decoration. As for batteries, although most mobile phone manufacturers have launched large battery products with a battery capacity of more than 3000mAh, the common mobile phones nowadays still cannot escape the fate of "one charge a day", and the battery life problem behind the performance parameters has never been fundamentally improved.

At this time, the appearance of Gionee M5 seems to want to fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient mobile phone battery.

Let’s take a look at the appearance first.

There is nothing surprising about the design of Gionee M5. Taking the black version in our hands as an example, it is not very recognizable.

Below the 5.5-inch screen are three touch buttons that Google redrawn after Android 5.0. The AMOLED screen equipped with the Gionee M5 has a resolution of only 720P, but the display effect looks pretty good, especially when tilted from the side. The green cast phenomenon common on AMOLED screens is no longer obvious on the Gionee M5.

On the side of the body, the metal frame with double chamfering technology is a plus point in the appearance of Gionee M5. The SIM card slot that supports dual Micro SIM cards and the TF expansion card slot are located on both sides symmetrically above the body.

A mobile phone with a thickness of 9.5mm can be called super, so the 8.5mm Gionee M5 is not considered thick. Coupled with the skin-like coating and curved design on the back of the body, the whole phone feels more comfortable to hold.

Now let’s look at performance.

The 720P screen is obviously unacceptable to some "parameter parties". In addition, the 1.3Ghz MediaTek MTK6735 quad-core processor makes the running score of more than 26,000 even more difficult to be accepted by "enthusiasts".

However, Gionee M5 has no problem running some large games with high special effects. The 2GB running memory also makes the multitasking capability satisfactory. The 64-bit Android 5.1 system also improves the system operation efficiency.

Gionee M5 has a built-in 500w+1300w pixel camera combination. As a mobile phone that is not mainly used for photography, it is absolutely commendable that it supports the separation of focus point and metering point. It can also take photos of different styles in the same scene.

In terms of software, Gionee M5 is equipped with its own Amigo 3.0 UI. It should be noted that the pull-down notification bar is very clean, and even the quick switch is omitted. In the default state, the phone theme is mainly black and gold. The dark style is very friendly to the ANOLED screen. The secondary optimization of third-party icons is also in place. "AnTuTu" has become "Golden Rabbit", and the visual perception is highly unified.

Well, as a mobile phone with a price comparable to that of Xiaomi Note, it is definitely not enough to achieve the above performance. We also say that Gionee M5 aims to "fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient mobile phone battery", and the means it adopts are also simple and crude.

The big battery with a capacity of 6020mAh is the key point.

When I first got the Gionee M5, the battery was 90%. After playing a 2-hour 720P resolution game "Mad Max 4: Fury Road", the battery was still 80%. When the screen brightness was 60% and the external volume was 50%, the power consumption was only 10%. This performance is amazing.

Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of the nightmare. Why? Because the battery of Gionee M5 is so durable that I didn’t even have the chance to test the charging.

Whether it is daily use of ordinary APP for dozens of minutes or standby at night, the Gionee M5 only loses a few percent of power at a symbolic rate. After a day, a 30% power loss is a common situation.

So, we used the machine's built-in 720P resolution, mp4 format promotional video, and played it in a loop at 60% screen brightness, starting at 12:00 midnight with 50% remaining battery, to 4:00 a.m. when it was almost dawn in Beijing, and the battery level finally remained at 33%.

It has to be said that the 6020mAh battery capacity, which is more than twice that of almost all mobile phones, does make the battery life of the Gionee M5 reach an "abnormal" level. In summary, large-scale games consume 5% of power for half an hour, high-definition videos consume 4% of power for half an hour, and standby at night consumes 2% of power.

Of course, there is no mobile phone that can't consume all the power. After going through the trouble to consume all the power, the charging speed of Gionee M5 is also excellent. For a mobile phone with such a large battery, the time of charging the battery from 0 to full is controlled within 2.5 hours, which is completely acceptable.

Therefore, judging from the appearance and performance alone, the Gionee M5 may not be able to live up to its price of 2,299 yuan, but a 6,020mAh battery makes the price of the machine seem worth it.

It can even be understood that the reason why Gionee M5 did not pursue data on processor core and screen resolution is that it hopes that the battery life performance of the phone can be further improved.

Although most people's first impression of the Gionee brand may still be the "voice king" and the ultra-thin mobile phones dominated by the ELIFE series, until this time it took the initiative to address the battery life issue of mobile phones, super battery life is the feature that smartphones should truly have after they mature.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.