Blackview Hero 10 hands-on review
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- Anonymous
- pjv
- 23 Jun 2024
This is odd because while the price of clamshells has drastically decreased, the price of the bookstyle foldables has remained basically untouched at about $1,700+.
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- IpsDisplay
- 4ra
- 23 Jun 2024
With blackview's smaller ability to purchase and sell at high volumes
I find this price reasonable.. I doubt blackview can get deals with their foldable OLED supplier based on quantity purchased like say Nubia or Samsung
And they sure as heck don't have a strong enough brand to do it
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- Anonymous
- 0PS
- 23 Jun 2024
€429 is too much for this. I can get a 2023 razr flip for about the same. I would consider this if it was like 300 bucks.
- Ouifuf
- sXI
- 23 Jun 2024
I'd rather take a used Find N2 Flip, slightly more expensive for 10x the quality
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- Joey
- DbA
- 23 Jun 2024
I've owned a few blackview devices. It's unlikely it will ever get ANY updates. Not even a security patch
- Azu10157
- kk{
- 23 Jun 2024
Darth Caesium, 23 Jun 2024This is a disappointment. You can get the ZTE nubia Flip fo... moreWhy do both screens need to be 120hz? How useful is 120hz gonna be on such a tiny exterior screen?
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- davidtb
- I8t
- 23 Jun 2024
Good to see foldables breaking into the budget ranges. The cheaper tech may allow some competitive breakthroughs.
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- Anonymous
- KLR
- 23 Jun 2024
This is so sad. It could have gotten a release schedule of 2018...
- DarlingYext
- 6mM
- 23 Jun 2024
"The 6.9-inch main AMOLED offers FHD+ resolution and decent brightness at up to 1,300 nits. It’s only a 60Hz panel, though.."
Finally the folding iPhone has arrived.
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- IgorS
- LpA
- 23 Jun 2024
mqondy, 23 Jun 2024Helio G99 ,I'm getting sick of that chipBetter a reliable G99 than an overclocked garbage like G91. It could be even worse: Unisoc T606/610.
On another side, Unisoc recent 5G chipsets are good and better than G99, but sadly Blackview didn't even considered using them.
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- spY
- 23 Jun 2024
Now that you mention it, where's the nubia Flip review? It's been in for review for quite a while now, nearly breaking the Find X7 Ultra's two months till the review was ready
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- Anonymous
- fCC
- 23 Jun 2024
Good for the price
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- Urs
- 33I
- 23 Jun 2024
Your prices from Germany and Holland are 650€ that's a big jump from your review :429 €
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- Kunal
- 7km
- 23 Jun 2024
Whether it is available in Kolkata market/shops now?what will be price and specification?
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- Darth Caesium
- H5x
- 23 Jun 2024
This is a disappointment. You can get the ZTE nubia Flip for not much more than this, and it has much better specs. The key problem with this phone is that it targets the wrong parts of its specs:
•The two screens should both be 120Hz, or at least 90Hz for one of them and 120Hz for the other. I would've made both of them 120Hz, and only gone for 90Hz on the outer screen if I absolutely had to.
•The Helio G99 inside this phone means that the 108MP main camera cannot even be properly used, as the chip can only work with up to a 64MP main camera, so there has to be some finicky hack they use to make it work. This probably means that the pixel binning process is not done properly, so there's going to be artifacts in the images in some ways. I would've personally used an IMX686 or even an IMX787, since that gets the job done and is fine enough and cheap enough for this price class when you consider its position as a budget foldable.
•The Helio G99 is not powerful enough for everyday use in some things like videos, so on a phone this expensive, it's inexcusably weak. I would've used a Dimensity 7050 (a.k.a the Dimensity 1080, it's the same chip) at the very least.
•12GB of RAM is nice for the price, but it's not necessary when the phone has other spec problems. I would've reduced it to 8GB.
•The ultrawide could've used a 32MP sensor, since those sensors are always much larger than your typical 8MP 1/4.0"-type sensor used on mid-rangers' ultrawides, but that's an unusual setup that could cost more. Otherwise, I would've either gone for one of those 13MP 1/3.06"-type sensors — but those ones are no better in pixel pitch than the 8MP sensors — or ideally, used the 50MP 1/2.76"-type Samsung JN1 sensor. Autofocus with macro support would also be a nice-to-have, but if it adds too much cost, I wouldn't add it, and would prioritise using a Samsung JN1 sensor over using a 13MP sensor thay has macro support.
What this phone absolutely does do well is the storage, which is of the UFS 2.2 variety and is 256GB. You don't see 256GB of base storage at this price very often, so even if it's not great in its speed in the context of flagship killers that cost only a hair's breadth more (the base offering for the Realme GT6 is 256GB of UFS 4.0; and the base offering in most countries for the OnePlus 12R is 256GB of UFS 3.1), it still does a good job overall.
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- Anonymous
- Tsr
- 23 Jun 2024
Anonymous, 23 Jun 2024Nubia Flip is 599 euro with taxes in their EU store, and I ... moreThey promise up to Android 16, but I don't believe it from this brand.
Didn't know Flip 4 has 2 OS updates to go, that makes it Android 16 too and with better specs in the end than this.
But I think the screen being able to fold is the real reason for this price, unless they get cheaper for manufacturers (which is not going to happen soon) then flips under 500 euro launch price will have weird cost saving methods used.
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- Anonymous
- Fek
- 23 Jun 2024
Anonymous, 23 Jun 2024429 euro EXCLUDING tax.
509 euro in my case, which is mo... moreNubia Flip is 599 euro with taxes in their EU store, and I think that is a more balanced spec wise phone for just 90 euro more than this.
Flip 4 is exoensive here at 545 euro, but it still has 2 years of OS and 3 years of security updates left, while this thing will get 1 OS update if a miracle happens.
Razr 40 has worse OS support, but they are also dirt cheap here at 470 euro so that is a fine pick too.
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- Anonymous
- Fek
- 23 Jun 2024
Anonymous, 23 Jun 2024It’s ok, what I have a bigger problem with is Helio G91. eM... moreWhen reading your comment I was like "no? iPhone 8 can do 4K 60?"
Then I realised it can, and that 4k 60 was possible for a while in 2017.
Dang, that makes all the phones without 4k 60 artifical miserable...