Update: TENAA has published the full specs of the Gionee Steel 5. It confirms the resolution is 1520 x 720. Other new details have been added to the post.

Gionee has announced a new smartphone called Gionee Steel 5. The last Steel series phone from the company was the Gionee Steel 3, released back in 2017. The smartphone sports a trendy waterdrop notch display screen. The company claims that the Steel 5 has a tough and stylish design. Also, it features a square-shaped camera system for its dual-camera setup.

Gionee Steel 5 specifications and features

The Gionee Steel 5 has a 6.217-inch IPS LCD display with a waterdrop notch. The screen has an HD+ resolution of 1520 x 720 pixels.

The back panel of the phone has a square-pattern camera housing that includes two camera sensors and a pair of LED flash. It comprises of the main camera of 12-megapixel and a secondary shooter of 2-megapixel that are coupled with Phase Detection Autofocus (PDAF) technology. The device is fitted with a 13-megapixel camera on the front for capturing selfie shots.

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The Gionee Steel 5 is backed with a 5,000mAh battery that is coupled with an intelligent power management system. The smartphone supports 5V/2A charging. The phone comes in three memory options – 3GB, 4 GB, and 6 GB RAM with 64GB or 128 GB of expandable storage. The company did not reveal the name of the processor that powers the smartphone but it is an octa-core chipset with four cores clocked at 2.0GHz and the other four cores clocked at 1.5GHz. The Android 9 Pie OS customized with the company’s Amigo OS skin runs on the device. It does not seem to feature a fingerprint scanner. The handset measures 159.7 x 75.9 x 9.9mm.

There is no word on the availability of the Gionee Steel 5. It is good to see the brand trying to resurrect by announcing its first phone of 2020 at the beginning of the year. Hopefully, the company will be unveiling more phones this year.

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