Blackview BL6000 Pro
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- PFCSTUCK
- skK
- 17 Jan 2025
I supported this phone on (if I remember properly) Kickstarter before it released and received it mid-January 2021. It is now mid-Janaury 2025 as I type this and I have daily used it the entire time.
THE BAD: The fingerprint reader only lasted for about 9 months before it only worked intermittently and failed completely at around the 15 month mark. The USB-C charging / data port has no dust cover and is not as rugged asthe rest of the phone. It only lasted about 7 months before it gave out. The processor is getting outdated and struggles to allow use as a phone when using wireless android auto. I am a government employee and in 2023 the U.S. government launched the "bring your own device" policy which allows us to virtualize unclassified government apps and do unclassified official work on our personal device via a virtualized operating system. Unfortunately, Blackview as a company is not an approved manufacturer for the program, so I cannot participate in the program. Therefore, I am stuck carring 2 phones - a personal and a business one. The camera seriously struggles with night or low-light pictures. The phone REALLY struggles to work dual sim when I am traveling internationally, which I have done over half the time I have owned the phone. Specifically, ther eare allot of software glitches which causes signal to drop one one or both sims randomly. Taking out the uneeded sim card does fix the problem. THE GOOD: Water did not seep into the rest of the phone through wither the sim card tray or the USB-C port. Taking underwater photos and videos was a breeze with the progromable button. The programable button was important because it is difficult to use the touchscreen once it gets wet (submerged or just in the rain). The battery has held-up extremely well over the years. I have been exclusively wireless charging for almost 3 1/2 years which is supposed to degrade teh battery quickly. I have not noticed any significant degredation. Installed apps seem to affect batterly life significantly more than physical degredation. It does live up to stresses expected of being a rugged phone. I have dropped it while mountain climbing and seen it slide down a slope for over 100 foot elevation loss.... and it still functioned. I survives rattling around in my ATV cargo bag while I am 4-wheeling. It handles every modern app I have wished to use it with. The processor is only now starting to stutter with the most demoanding of new apps (it still runs them though).
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- Dzonko
- Liq
- 17 Jan 2023
Not a bad rugged phone. I use it for a year now. Battery holds good. Camera is not superb to be honest. The only downside is some OS problem and you dont have the option to manage which apps close after a certain period of time in the background, some apps turn off after 10 min, some not, which is weird.