There is a category of smartphones, which in the Western countries a little out of date, while in Asia it is still very popular. We are talking about a clamshell smartphone. While the whole market is filled with touch-sensitive smartphones, clamshell smartphones look very unusual and original.
Just a couple of years ago clamshell was quiet ordinary format for smartphones, but today they have been superseded by modern touchscreen smartphones, that have a large display on the entire front panel.
It seems that Chinese company Gionee believes in the success of clamshell smartphones. Gionee will present new clamshell smartphone Gionee W909 on March 29 .
It is worth noting that the clamshell smartphone Gionee W909 will not concede on productivity to its conventional competitors. Gionee W909 will have fingerprint reader, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal flash memory, 16-megapixel main camera.
Some time ago, the smart phone was seen in the materials sites Geekbench and TENAA. Thus, we have an idea about the technical characteristics of the smartphone, which include 8-core processor MediaTek Helio P10 and graphics accelerator ARM Mali-T860 MP2 with a clock frequency of 700 MHz, working together with 4GB of RAM, and 16-megapixel main camera mentioned above.
The new smartphone Gionee W909 will receive two 4.2-inch displays with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels each and 5-megapixel front camera.,
The physical size of the smartphone will be 124.6 x 62.5 x 16.4 mm and weigh is 210 gram. It is also important that smartphone runs on Google Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system.
Gionee tries to revive the former glory of the clamshell smartphones. Chinese company hopes that the new product will be a “chicken lays golden eggs” and will be popular among users.