The Elephone S8 is Having All Screen At Quad HD Resolution

   

   Clones in popular culture -- whether on the big screen, small screen, or comic books -- are almost always depicted as inferior to the original That has been mostly true in the Chinese smartphone realm too. But the Elephone S8 is threatening to flip the script. It's an unabashed clone of the Xiaomi Mi Mix, but it's got a better screen -- at least going by pixel count.In fact, the Elephone S8's 2560 X 1440 (aka Quad HD) resolution tops not just the Xiaomi Mi Mix, but it's recently released sequel, the Mi Mix 2, and most other budgets Chinese bezel-less phones on the market. This is pretty cool, considering the Elephone S8, priced at $270, is almost certainly a budget phone of its own.I'm not just hyping up the screen from numbers off a spec sheet -- in my two weeks of testing this device at home, on the street, under the sun, the 6-inch LCD panel consistently impressed.The S8 packs quite a bit of power for a budget phone too. It's got a MediaTek Helio X25 chip insider, which is the flagship MediaTek chipset that's more powerful than the standard P series chips found in most cheap Chinese devices. On Geekbench, the S8 scored a very respectable 1743 on single core and 4202 in multi-core. These are numbers on par with 2016 big name flagship devices like the Samsung Galaxy S7.The back of the device has a shiny back that's similar to HTC's line of phones this year, except the Elephone S8 is noticeably plastic, whereas HTC's devices are made of more premium feeling glass. The back also houses, surprisingly, only one camera (a real rarity for Chinese budget phones, which cram every trendy feature into devices for the sake of having it). Elephone's engineers say they want to focus on making one camera good instead of making two.