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Blackview A5 Launched For $44.99, Features MT6580 & 1GB RAM

Joel Joseph — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:21:49 +0000

Blackview has just launched the new Blackview A5 super-budget smartphone for an amazing price of $44.99. This is an even cheaper alternative to the Blackview A8 that was launched a few weeks back. So, anyone who’s on a budget and wants a phone under $50, read on for more details.

The Blackview A5 comes with a special textured mosaic back cover. This sets the phone apart from the other budget offerings in the market, but whether you like the design or not will be a matter of personal preferance. Despite its low cost pricing, from the pictures that we have seen, the phone looks quite well built. It will be available in three colors, namely white, black and blue.

The phone comes with a compact 4.5-inch 480p display, much smaller than the 5-inch 720p display on the A8. There will be MT6580 quad-core chip inside with 1GB RAM, 8GB of expandable ROM and 2000mAh battery. The entire list of specs are given at the end of the article.

Meanwhile, you can get hold of the Blackview A5 via Snap Up sales for $29.99 (1 unit a week) and $39.99 (5 units a week). Or else, you can buy it for $44.99 from resellers. You can check out the listing from down below.

Buy Blackview A5 for $45.99

Blackview A5 Specs:

Android 6.0 Marshmallow
MT6580 Quad-core Cortex – A7, 32-bit, 1.3GHz
1GB RAM, 8GB ROM, extension to 32GB
4.5” 480*854 IPS display
Stylish Mosaic back cover
2000mAh battery
2.0MP front camera, 5.0MP rear camera
3G, Dual SIM card slot, dual standby, one talk
Color options
Pearl white, Violet black, Skyblue

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Elephone S1 for just $70?

shanos — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:46:07 +0000

Elephone S1 for just $70?

Is the Elephone S1 for just $70 a complete bargain or is it too little tech for 2015’s consumers? coming off the back of the moderately successful S2 and S2 phones, Elephone are about to add 2 new models to the S series phones, the S1 and S1 Plus.

The Elephone S1 will come with a 5 inch screen whilst the S1 Plus will come with a 5.5-inch screen, resolution for the screens is as yet unconfirmed but for this price I think the best we can hope for is a 720p unit.

Styling wise the handset renders for the S1 look very good, featuring glass rear panels and chamfered metal chassis, hopefully they will launch with Corning Gorilla Glass like the latest versions of the S2 and S2 plus.

Judging by the renders its safe to say that Elephone are aiming for a premium styling, at budget pricing.

In order to keep the price down so low some sacrifices will need to be made, the inclusion of the lower end quad core Mediatek MT6580 chip, is one such compromise, unless Elephone couple it to a separate LTE modem the S1 and S1 Plus will be strictly 3g handsets.

I guess the type of people looking at a phones with a price tag as low as $70 (£46), may still on a 3G data plan rather than a more costly 4G LTE plan.

What do you think? in 2015 and on in to 2016 will there still a market for non 4G LTE handsets? are Elephone playing a blinder that may see them clean up at the bottom end of the market? or is it just too little power in a market full of 4G handsets?

As always please leave any comments or questions below

Regards Shanos

Original article posted at Gadgetz.tv

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Alcatel Pixi 3 (5.5) could be the first MT6580 powered smartphone

Joel Joseph — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:44:37 +0000

Back in January, we saw a leaked image which showed off the product roadmap of Mediatek this year. According to the image, the company was developing a low cost quad-core processor in the MT65xx lineup which was scheduled to release in Q2 2015. Looks like we just saw the first smartphone powered by this MT6580 processor, namely the Alcatel Pixi 3 (5.5).

Alcatel was pretty busy this year announcing a number of gadgets at MWC 2015. In fact, a number of the company’s devices had the same name which made things a bit confusing. For example, the Alcatel Onetouch Idol 3 has two different version and so does the Alcatel Pixi 3 (5.5). There is a 4G LTE variant of the device as well as a 3G variant of the device.

However, the differences does not end there. The processor is different and so is the battery capacity and a lot of other stuff. While the 3G variant is powered by this new MT6580 processor, the 4G LTE one will come with QCT 8909. There will be 1GB of RAM onboard along with 8GB internal storage on both the devices.. Surprisingly, the 3G variant has a larger 2910 mAh battery as compared to the 2800 mAh battery found on the 4G compatible model.

So it looks like Mediatek is right on schedule when it comes to releasing its SoCs and we still have some exciting new processors coming later this year like the 20nm MT6796.

Don’t expect great performance from the MT6580 processor, since its targeted at the low cost budget segment. But we would like to see how the chip ranks in the benchmark tests to get a fair idea about its capability.

Stay tuned for more information.

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