In terms of Mediatek I think people are overreacting when it's a budget phone. You're never going to get a stronger performance Snapdragon/Exynos processor than Mediatek for the same price unless there's some big glitch.
I've used all kinds of phones and for the average user of chrome, Facebook, phone calls, texting, YouTube you're not going to have a vastly different experience.
Benchmarks aren't real world and can be manipulated by software and hardware just like the emissions tests that Volkswagen gamed. Even benchmarking after 30 minutes of resource intensive activity results in sometimes vastly different results.
I think software is often more important as the same processor can be amazing in one phone, and dire in the next if it's in a dodgy android version.
Personally I have switched over to Chinese phones for the past 4 years and have upgraded each year by looking at the £100 purchase price and thinking '£8 a month is cheap for the phone, it's paid off already'.
My contract is £5.25 a month and has way more than I need so overall I'm paying £13 a month for everything including regular phone upgrades.
If you compare the first phone I had to what is possible at £100 now it's incredible and I won't be going back to being ripped off with sky high contracts which lock you in and pay far more for your phone.
The first £100 phone was 4GB ROM, 1GB RAM 4 inch, now i could get 64GB ROM 4GB RAM.
Looks like a great phone at a very good price point - amazon 30 day "No Quibble" cant go wrong
This wont go too hot as supply wont be able to handle demand - unless amazon have a ton of stock.
☞ Accepts SD cards
Hot.
jameshothothot to deany76
14 Sep 1611#6
headphone slot too
sam1970
14 Sep 16#7
iam after a new phone for the wife and this will be a big improvement from her iPhone 4s. I can afford an iPhone 7 but I refuse to be ripped off. now..any one knows a reason for not buying this phone? any one used it before?
Was looking at this yesterday, and, so far as I understand it the internals of the two are identical except the mark has the fingerprint sensor. if that's not important to you then the studio one is the better buy.
Luckylucy2
14 Sep 162#12
I have just bought the blu life and I'm so thrilled with it looks like my galaxy 6 which broke in less than 6 months through 'liquid damage' even though it's never been wet! Couldn't afford £300 replacement so opted to try blu so glad I did never again will I get these mega expensive phones they're just not worth it love my blu more and I even get fingerprint recognition bonus :smiley::smiley:
sam1970
14 Sep 161#13
Sorry but what does that mean? Iam not very clued about these things
yaacov81
14 Sep 16#14
The studio has a slightly bigger battery which could mean it lasts longer.
parasitemol
14 Sep 161#15
It's the manufacturer of the processor. I wouldn't let that put you off in this day and age, they are more reliable than they used to be.. You probably are better off spending a little more though and getting the Moto G Play or a bit more and the regular Moto G (around £130) as that will receive steady updates from Motorola/Lenovo. Its highly likely that BLU are no longer supporting this device if it's true what someone else posted - that it hasn't received a software update since December! This could leave it more vulnerable security wise.
Apparently no android update in a while. Unless there is a custom ROM I would avoid
phil16 to delvey1987
15 Sep 16#25
As its mediatek expect little to no custom ROMs. They don't release android kernel source so you cannot build newer kernels. Cheap for a reason unfortunately.
lonesomepuppet
14 Sep 16#21
evening guys, question : This or the elephone s1 ? any advice would be appreciated !! thanks in advance .
imagineS to lonesomepuppet
14 Sep 16#22
Put the extra money and get a decent Android device. Xperia, SAMSUNG..if you don't fancy them have a looksy at Nextbit Robin
Cheap007
14 Sep 16#23
This or life mark?
maxy414
14 Sep 16#24
yes spotted it on camel camel a few hours earlier .
looks very identical to samsung s6 .
good value phone .
if i didnt have xaomi redmi note 3
i would have got it
pS
mediatek aint that bad , for Daily tasks i dont feel any difference from my s7
not into gaming :wink:
Headphone 'anything' may NOT be on the cards for anyone for much longer still?.
Sadly ..... :-(
escortboy
15 Sep 167#28
In terms of Mediatek I think people are overreacting when it's a budget phone. You're never going to get a stronger performance Snapdragon/Exynos processor than Mediatek for the same price unless there's some big glitch.
I've used all kinds of phones and for the average user of chrome, Facebook, phone calls, texting, YouTube you're not going to have a vastly different experience.
Benchmarks aren't real world and can be manipulated by software and hardware just like the emissions tests that Volkswagen gamed. Even benchmarking after 30 minutes of resource intensive activity results in sometimes vastly different results.
I think software is often more important as the same processor can be amazing in one phone, and dire in the next if it's in a dodgy android version.
Personally I have switched over to Chinese phones for the past 4 years and have upgraded each year by looking at the £100 purchase price and thinking '£8 a month is cheap for the phone, it's paid off already'.
My contract is £5.25 a month and has way more than I need so overall I'm paying £13 a month for everything including regular phone upgrades.
If you compare the first phone I had to what is possible at £100 now it's incredible and I won't be going back to being ripped off with sky high contracts which lock you in and pay far more for your phone.
The first £100 phone was 4GB ROM, 1GB RAM 4 inch, now i could get 64GB ROM 4GB RAM.
sheps to escortboy
15 Sep 16#31
want to recommend me a phone and retailler around that price range.. have two children wanting the best phones they can get for that kinda money at Xmas. cheers
jaydeeuk1 to escortboy
15 Sep 16#39
People dislike mediatec not because of performance (which isn't bad actually), although GPS is still rubbish and probably always will be, its the fact they refuse to release source code as the GPL requires them. Just another money grabbing company.
lugsy3
15 Sep 16#29
Looks good for the money, lot of spec for the price, nice find op.
forknknife
15 Sep 161#30
I owned one of these,I say owned because I returned to amazon due to a few issues.Build quality is impressive,and looks very stylish.The issues I had was with wifi,bluetooth and speaker.
I found wifi to be weak compared to my old phone.
Bluetooth was weaker still.Move 1 metre away from a bluetooth speaker and it would cut out.
And the speaker on this phone is also very weak.
Also note that you will have to decide whether you use 2 sims or 1 sim and an sd card.
kpearsoncj
15 Sep 16#32
i bought this last night with £5 off for prime now code seems a good phone so far
Bunglistik
15 Sep 16#33
64GB ROM & 4 GB RAM for £100 - sounds good can you share the name & model of phone?
barbiegirl
15 Sep 16#34
Depends on the version of the 810. Later releases do not suffer overheating issues. I know as I run one and it's cooler than most other phones I've owned. Bloody powerful too.
There's loads of options out there. I'll have a think.
QuantumInfo
15 Sep 16#37
does it beat an iphone5?
sheps
15 Sep 16#38
cheers will look forward to hearing from you
cheapbiker
15 Sep 16#40
I had the windows version. Ok at the price point (£59) until it stopped charging, even whilst indicating it was. It eventually died and Amazon refunded me as it had gone out of production.
The camera in the windows one was garbage though. It couldn't hold focus, hopefully they've solved issues like that. I wouldn't hold out any hope of decent OS updates etc. They seem to do short production runs if the windows one is anything to go by.
tormentortech
15 Sep 16#41
Apparently the fingerprint sensor doesn't work half the time and it takes 7 hours to charge. I will probably get the studio one.
Mr cool
17 Sep 16#42
How would this compare to a Samsung galaxy j1 which l have at mom? As it is fine but does not have much memory.
I'm not of a tech mind so any help would be cool
Crossbow to Mr cool
18 Sep 16#43
Everything is better than the J1. In some areas, much better.
If you read forknknife's post, just hope yours is a fault-free device. But, being Amazon, if anything goes wrong in the 1st year, they should replace/refund you.
Mr cool
18 Sep 16#44
Ok thanks for your help.
alidean123
21 Sep 16#45
Anyone else take a punt on this? I have. Build quality is good. Phone is quick. Screen is bright and definition is good. However, the battery drain overnight was quite high even with wifi and data off. The battery is showing 44% lost through phone idle since full charge. That seems high?
diddydavro to alidean123
30 Sep 16#46
I did and had to return it to Amazon, I couldn't transfer files from PC using MTP, I tried several USB cables and my even brother's PC. Amazon sent a replacement but this had the exactly the same problem AND corrupted a 64gb SD card, made it a 16mb one. I re-formatted it on PC and tried again, phone corrupted it again. I tried another SD card but that was also corrupted. To be fair, Amazon gave me a full refund with no quibble. Both had poor battery performance.
QuickProfits to alidean123
30 Sep 16#48
I would like to but I cannot bring myself to buy a phone with an outdated operating system. I take it it hasn't been updated yet?
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13 MP main camera + 5 MP front camera with built in f2.0 aperture, blue glass filter and LED flash
1.3 GHz Quad Core MeditaTek processor
16 GB Internal memory and 2 GB RAM with Micro SD up to 64 GB
4G LTE (1/3/20/38/40) and 3G(900/2100)
Box Contains
Handset,USB Cable,Headset,Cover,Screen Protector,Quick Guide,SIM Tool
This is Dual Sim OR Single Sim + Micro SD
- topss
Top comments
I've used all kinds of phones and for the average user of chrome, Facebook, phone calls, texting, YouTube you're not going to have a vastly different experience.
Benchmarks aren't real world and can be manipulated by software and hardware just like the emissions tests that Volkswagen gamed. Even benchmarking after 30 minutes of resource intensive activity results in sometimes vastly different results.
I think software is often more important as the same processor can be amazing in one phone, and dire in the next if it's in a dodgy android version.
Personally I have switched over to Chinese phones for the past 4 years and have upgraded each year by looking at the £100 purchase price and thinking '£8 a month is cheap for the phone, it's paid off already'.
My contract is £5.25 a month and has way more than I need so overall I'm paying £13 a month for everything including regular phone upgrades.
If you compare the first phone I had to what is possible at £100 now it's incredible and I won't be going back to being ripped off with sky high contracts which lock you in and pay far more for your phone.
The first £100 phone was 4GB ROM, 1GB RAM 4 inch, now i could get 64GB ROM 4GB RAM.
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This wont go too hot as supply wont be able to handle demand - unless amazon have a ton of stock.
☞ Accepts SD cards
Hot.
http://bluproducts.com/life-mark
looks very identical to samsung s6 .
good value phone .
if i didnt have xaomi redmi note 3
i would have got it
pS
mediatek aint that bad , for Daily tasks i dont feel any difference from my s7
not into gaming :wink:
Samsung next to ditch 3.5mm headphone jack
http://a.msn.com/r/2/AAiPvYx?a=0&m=EN-GB
Headphone 'anything' may NOT be on the cards for anyone for much longer still?.
Sadly ..... :-(
I've used all kinds of phones and for the average user of chrome, Facebook, phone calls, texting, YouTube you're not going to have a vastly different experience.
Benchmarks aren't real world and can be manipulated by software and hardware just like the emissions tests that Volkswagen gamed. Even benchmarking after 30 minutes of resource intensive activity results in sometimes vastly different results.
I think software is often more important as the same processor can be amazing in one phone, and dire in the next if it's in a dodgy android version.
Personally I have switched over to Chinese phones for the past 4 years and have upgraded each year by looking at the £100 purchase price and thinking '£8 a month is cheap for the phone, it's paid off already'.
My contract is £5.25 a month and has way more than I need so overall I'm paying £13 a month for everything including regular phone upgrades.
If you compare the first phone I had to what is possible at £100 now it's incredible and I won't be going back to being ripped off with sky high contracts which lock you in and pay far more for your phone.
The first £100 phone was 4GB ROM, 1GB RAM 4 inch, now i could get 64GB ROM 4GB RAM.
I found wifi to be weak compared to my old phone.
Bluetooth was weaker still.Move 1 metre away from a bluetooth speaker and it would cut out.
And the speaker on this phone is also very weak.
Also note that you will have to decide whether you use 2 sims or 1 sim and an sd card.
http://www.coolicool.com/lenovo-k80-4gb-ram-intel-z3560-18ghz-quad-core-55-inch-ips-fhd-screen-android-44-4g-lte-smartphon-g-40624
The camera in the windows one was garbage though. It couldn't hold focus, hopefully they've solved issues like that. I wouldn't hold out any hope of decent OS updates etc. They seem to do short production runs if the windows one is anything to go by.
I'm not of a tech mind so any help would be cool
If you read forknknife's post, just hope yours is a fault-free device. But, being Amazon, if anything goes wrong in the 1st year, they should replace/refund you.