Elephone P5000 review: 5.0 inch smartphone with 1.7GHz octa core processor

The Elephone P5000 is one such MediaTek Octa Core powered handset with a difference. It includes NFC, finger print scanner and a massive battery of 5350 mAh capacity. The P5000 is priced at $229.99 on TinyDeal.
The P5000 is bulky and has got curvy design, it is comfortable to hold though the weight of this handset with built in 5350 mAh battery is about 206 grams and thickness is 10.87mm.
Elephone P5000 sports a 5 inch screen supporting 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. There is a factory fitted screen guard. Colour reproduction is good, touch is smooth / responsive and viewing angles are pretty good.
This handset is running Android 4.4.2 and it will get the Lollipop update.
The P5000 comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage. On the first boot available free RAM is 683MB and there is about 13GB space for apps / user storage. You can install / move apps to external storage. OTG is supported.
P5000 is powered by 1.7GHz MediaTek MT6592 octa core chipset (Cortex A7) coupled with Mali 450 MP GPU. Performance is very smooth and lag free.
This handset comes with 16MP camera on the rear and an 8MP camera on the front. The camera quality is above average. Check the sample images and videos at the end. Rear camera can shoot full HD videos at 30fps.
The key highlight about the Elephone P5000 is the massive 5350 mAh battery. On a full charge you can expect about 5 to 9 hours of continuous moderate to heavy usage. The temperature always showed 25 degree – the handset did get heated up with heavy usage but was not very hot. With normal usage the battery could go on for up to 4 days on a single charge.