Gionee A1 is a  metal body phone . Gionee A1 has been built with the help of aircraft-grade material, which provides it superior durability compared to other phones in  Gionee 5.5 Inch Mobiles category. Front of the phone has got 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass which covers the entire front and thus providing a superior finished look. It fits well in your hand and you can operate the phone with one hand only. Gionee A1 is available in 3 different colors - Grey, Black, and Gold. The volume and power button are on the placed on the left rim of the phone. The phone have got 3.5 mm music jack and MicroUSB charging port, which is at the bottom side. The phone also have LED notification light - which is just above the display. 

Gionee A1's 16MP front camera has  LED flash . Which enables you to capture great selfies even in low light conditions. The front camera is with autofocus, which is quite rare and this provides you sharper focus. The selfie camera app also has few good live filters like smoothening, whitening, eye enlarging and slimming. You also have HDR option for front camera. Front camera has f/2.0 large aperture which makes your selfies more livelier. 

Gionee A1 is not only bigger in terms of the display but it is also quite big and impressive when it comes to memory of the phone. The phone has 64GB Internal Memory (ROM) which you can expand up to 256GB. It has 4GB LPDDR3 RAM which is ideal for your multitasking requirements. Thanks to the bigger memory, playing HD games is a breeze on this phone and phone do not get heating issues. 

Gionee A1 has hybrid sim slot - which means you can either use 2 sim cards OR you can use 1 sim card and 1 memory card. However, 64GB internal memory is big enough and the device has also got OTG support, in case if you have higher internal memory requirement. 

Gionee A1 has a huge 4010 mAh non-removable battery, which makes it one of the best  Gionee big battery smartphones. The company claims that you can use the phone with regular usage for almost 2 days with a single charge. You can fully charge the phone in less than 2 hours thanks to the dual-core charging technology which Gionee have used in this mobile phone. In addition to optimizing battery in an apt manner, Gionee has also incorporated 3 different power modes - which you can choose as per your requirement. The phone offers up to 400 hours of standby period. 

Gionee A1 also score high for your multi-tasking requirements. You can have multi-windows support to seamlessly perform different tasks at the same time. You can chat with your friends on WhatsApp also while watching the video either directly from the video player or via the web browser on youtube. The phone has the fingerprint sensor located at the front of the phone, which can unlock your device in just 0.2 seconds. It runs on latest Android 7.0 Android Nougat OS. Gionee have added their Amigo 4.0 skin over it and added many useful featuers. To add further, the device has IR blaster so you can use it as remote control to operate various household appliances like Air Conditioners, TVs, etc.