Blackview A8 : The Cheapest phone for the selfies lovers only for 50$

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This smartphone was lunched this year at the MWC 2016 event by the company Blackview ,for those of you who doesn't know what MWC is ,Its  Mobile World Congress it's the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry"".
The Blackview is a chinese startup company in the smartphone business and it's purpose is to give a high quality technology phones for the right cost.
The Blackview A8 is a low cost smartphone ,If you buy it you'll get pretty good scpecs for a cheap price 45$ as you'll see in this post.

So let's start the review with  the : 

Body & Design :


The Blackview comes with a 5inch IPS HD display wich commonly used in mid-to-low devices and an 2.5D ARC touch screen, equiped with full CNC frame that goes all around the body .The dimensions are 144.9 x 72.9 x 9.3 mm (5.7 x 2.87 x 0.37 in) and the weight is 160g so its a  pretty lite smartphone.I can say that A8 have a pretty descent design in comparison to other phone with same price.

Specifications :


For the specs the A8 is powered by a 1.3Ghz ARMv7 Quadcore Processor MediaTek MTk6580A, 32bit architecture with a 1GB of RAM and 8GB of  built-in storage that can be extended with a TF Card (max 32GB), and also a Mali-400MP1 GPU which is not that great for heavy 3D appps or games.
For the battery life the Blackview A8 use a 2050mAh Li-ion removable battery ,not that big but for the price Yep I'm cool.The A8 is a 3G phone with 2 sim card slots , it also features Wifi,GPS,Bluetooth.
For the primary camera the A8 have 8MP Sony IMX HD with a Led flash,the same camera as iPhone5s, for the frontal camera its a 2MP which is interpolated to 5.

Software :

The Blackview A8 ships with Android 5.1 Lollipop with a costumized UI (User Interface) that can be changed to the default Stock Android with the App drawer,doesn't support OTG and support updates via OTA.


Camera Test :



Blackview A8 Official Preview :

Drop-Test :




Summary :

Brand Blackview
Model A8
Color white,gold and black
Screen Size 5 inches
Display resolution 1280 x 720
OS Android 5.1
Chipset MTK6580
CPU Quad-core 1.3GHz
RAM 1GB
GPU Mali-400
Internal memory 8GB
Bluetooth Yes, v4.0
Wi-Fi Yes; 802.11 b/g/n
GPS Yes
Battery Li-Ion
Battery size 2050 mAh
Front camera 2MP (interpolated to 5)
Back camera 8MP Sony IMX
Network 2G, 3G
Sim Card Dual
Weight 160g

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