Blackview BV6000 - performance in rugged body

Blackview’s latest is another rugged smartphone, but with a smaller 4.7-inch display.

Last year Blackview launched their first rugged phone called the BV5000. The phone was actually well made, and performed rather well and has gone on to becoming quite a popular device for people of all walks of life.

If there was one issues with the phone though, it would be the size. A 5.5-inch phone with a thick rugged body means a very large device indeed, so customers called for something a little smaller.

So introducing the Blackview BV6000. This new rugged phone offered all the waterproofing and shock protection of the original BV5000, but in a smaller size and more compact 4.7-inch display.

The phone remains IP68 approved so you don’t need to worry about dropping it in a puddle, or being ran over, but it also boasts a Mediatek Helio P10 chipset and 3GB RAM meaning its one of the more powerful rugged phones on the market.

32GB memory comes as standard, as does Android 6.0 and a 4500mAh battery which should prove more than enough for the smaller HD 1280 x 720 display.

While developing the BV6000, Blackview have managed to boost camera specs on the phone to an 8 mega-pixel front and 18 mega-pixel rear sensor. Other features include GPS, GLONASS support, dual micro SIM cards and FDD-LTE support for bands 800/1800/2100/2600Mhz.

Pricing is expected to be around the $200 mark with a launch sometime in Q2 of 2016.

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Latest OPPO leak X9009 - Helio P10 SoC + 4GB RAM

OPPO’s being rather quiet about its upcoming Find 9 flagship. However, we keep hearing and reading about the phone thanks to leaks from China.

The newest leak about the phone speaks about the kind of SoC it might have. And the exact model of the SoC is a bit surprising to know, since OPPO have traditionally shipped their flagship phones with about the most powerful SoCs available at that time.

It’s the MediaTek Helio P10 MT6755 that the OPPO X9009 leaked with. The phone was spotted on Geekbench, where we also got to learn about the device’s single- and multi-core scores on the benchmarking app. Take a look below:

On the single-core test, the X9009 scores 871 points, while multi-core points go up to 3378.

The listing also mentioned the RAM on the phone at 3772MB; this probably means that we can safely assume the phone will have 4GB RAM.

Possible look:

We’ve had all kinds of rumours about the Find 9; from a Snapdragon 820 processor to 6GB RAM, the rumour mills have left nothing to our imagination.

That said, I’d be surprised if the Find 9 ships with the MediaTek Helio P10 and not something more powerful than that.

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