Elephone P2000 really offers what it promises at first glance

Elephone have been one of the fast movers in the world of mid-range Chinese phones, with new models launched every few months. Easily the most interesting of the currently available models is the Elephone P2000. The P2000 promises to be a lot of phone for the money with features such as NFC, Octa-core processor, 5.5-inch display and a rear mounted fingerprint scanner.

We’ve put this sweetie under a thorough tests during the past few days. Let’s see if the Elephone P2000 really offers what it promises at first glance.

At the first look you might think you are holding a Nokia Lumia phone in your hands. The design language just appears to be very similar, at least when having a look from the front The Elephone P2000’s dimensions are 154 x 79 x 9.2mm at a weight of 134g. Definitely not the thinnest phone, but an acceptable weight makes up for that.

The camera of the Elephone P2000 captures pictures with native 8 mega pixels (13mp interpolated) and an aperture of f/2.0. But don’t expect too much, as it is just another generic camera inside a Chinese phone. Lets first talk about the pros! Those would be very good color reproduction, high contrast, fast focus and a low noise production. But unfortunately the pictures do not show enough depth of field and thus details. In addition, our review device always showed blurred edges in every taken picture. All in all this is not sufficient to replace your digital camera.

The front camera however did surprise. It takes decent pictures with pretty much no noise and a good depth of field. Auto focus is missing here. But yes, it is good enough for a few quick selfies or video calls