​headphone slot too

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 the Blu life mark is a better deal with a fingerprint sensor for a tenner more https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blu-Life-Mark-SIM-Free-Smartphone/dp/B01CG0U6TG/

MediaTek...... I'm out.

​it hasn't no

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?

Doesn't appear to be getting 6

Ok thanks for your help.

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

Apparently the fingerprint sensor doesn't work half the time and it takes 7 hours to charge. I will probably get the studio one.

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.

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.

cheers will look forward to hearing from you

does it beat an iphone5?

There's loads of options out there. I'll have a think.

Lenovo K80M - It's only available from Coolicool at that price right now. You'll need to find a 2% off voucher code and use TCB.
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

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.

64GB ROM & 4 GB RAM for £100 - sounds good can you share the name & model of phone?

i bought this last night with £5 off for prime now code seems a good phone so far

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.

Looks good for the money, lot of spec for the price, nice find op.

Think AGAIN:

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 ..... :-(

MediaTek... Ok that's me out

Apparently no android update in a while. Unless there is a custom ROM I would avoid

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:

This or life mark?

evening guys, question : This or the elephone s1 ? any advice would be appreciated !! thanks in advance .

Not if its an 810

​i am not sure about this. according to blu they are the same
http://bluproducts.com/life-mark

For an Android device pick a Qualcomm Snapdragon over MediaTek and Intel Atom

​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.

​The studio has a slightly bigger battery which could mean it lasts longer.

Sorry but what does that mean? Iam not very clued about these things

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:

Looks like the Blu life mark is a better deal with a fingerprint sensor for a tenner more https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blu-Life-Mark-SIM-Free-Smartphone/dp/B01CG0U6TG/

No updates since Dec15 sounds bad.

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?

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.

Nice price and heat added.

MediaTek...... I'm out.

Looks very S5/S6ish. Like it.