Gionee Marathon M3 is India's first Android smartphone to feature a 5000 mAh battery

While Motorola has all the reasons in the world to be proud of the 3,900 mAh battery inside its Droid Turbo / Moto Maxx, there are some handsets out there that feature even larger batteries. The latest among them is the Gionee Marathon M3, a smartphone that was recently unveiled in India.

The Marathon M3 is a mid-range, affordable device, and is India’s first smartphone to come with a 5000 mAh battery, being able to provide a talk-time of up to 32.4 hours, or a stand-by time of up to 32.8 days. As you’d expect, the M3 is not a thin handset (like others made by Gionee), as it measures 144.5 x 71.45 x 10.4 mm.

Running Android 4.4 KitKat, the Gionee Marathon M3 sports a 5-inch IPS display with 720 x 1280 pixels, further featuring: an 8 MP rear camera, 2 MP front-facing camera, dual SIM capabilities, a quad-core 1.3 GHz MediaTek processor, 1 GB of RAM, and 8 GB of expandable internal memory. The new smartphone should be released in India soon for around $210 (12,999 INR). At the moment, it’s not clear if the Marathon M3 will be launched in other markets. Would you buy it if it were available in your region?


source: Gionee via AndroidOS.in