The Gionee A1 is a neat smartphone with a good screen, acceptable performance for ease of use and a very competent camera.
GIONEE A1 DETAILED REVIEW
Gionee A1 is the company’s new flagship smartphone. It runs on an older MediaTek Helio P10 SoC, and Gionee’s main advantage for the A1 is a 16-megapixel front-facing camera and a large 4,010 mAh battery. Gionee A1 has a number of interesting elements, and it faces fierce competition in one of the most aggressive segments of the Indian smartphone market. Here you can see what the Gionee A1 smartphone does and breaks.
Front-facing camera
The 16-megapixel front-facing camera generally provides good photography and is obviously one of the best front-facing cameras on the market. Skin tones become even softer to make faces look brighter, and sharp edges and rough texture also add softness to smooth out blemishes. However, you still get neat details of the facial textures, and the Gionee A1 front camera module is especially impressive when there is enough light around the photos.
The skin tones are not exactly accurate, but they are not illuminated, which allows you to keep the natural shades. The colors look a little less saturated, resulting in a slightly flatter overall color, but since most selfie lovers also prefer to edit their photos after shooting, it works pretty well. The front camera is equipped with an f/2.0 lens, which is the standard among selfie-oriented smartphones such as the Oppo F3 plus and Vivo V5 plus. However, A1 tends to keep the background much clearer compared to other programmatically processed bokeh modes. This may give different results depending on your preferences, but for the most part, we think Gionee A1 could isolate objects better, an effect that tends to make selfies more beautiful.
Selfies taken in low light create softer details and a smoother skin tone. You also get a front-facing flash to compensate for the lack of sufficient lighting and take better selfies in low-light conditions.
Rear camera
The Gionee A1 rear camera is pretty competent. The 13-megapixel Marksman camera is equipped with a Sony IMX258 sensor and is certainly one of the most powerful cameras in segments with a resolution of less than 20 KB. Photos taken by the camera in daylight give bright colors, good dynamic range and fairly accurate white balance. The Gionee A1 model impresses with its overall detail, although it retains the smoothness of small details. It is also one of the best in its class in terms of color accuracy and overall detail.
Photos taken in low light also give bright colors and decent detail, although there is obviously some rough noise. The camera tends to shoot at high ISO, which leads to the formation of coarse grains in photos. The colors maintain sound accuracy even in low-light conditions, as A1 absorbs ISO, although noise in dark areas can be a bit annoying.
The camera app offers a variety of modes, settings and filters. Features like embellishment and slow motion work on both the front and rear cameras, and you get other modes like slow motion, professional camera, GIF, barcode scanner and text translation.
