The Design and Display

The Blackview A80 is an all-plastic smartphone built to suit a  low budget. Despite being in the low-cost category, the smartphone is a low-cost Android phone that tries its best to look premium. It may be difficult to ascertain what category to place this smartphone if you take a distant look.

On the rear of the smartphone, there is a quad-camera setup, featuring a camera flash. A rear-mounted capacitive fingerprint sensor. Below you will find the Blackview branding as well as brief information on some particulars.

On the front of this mobile phone, there is a 6.49-inch display with a dewdrop notch. This display is an IPS LCD display, with a screen resolution of 1560 x 720. Inside the drop notch on its display, is the front-facing camera and earpiece.

Bezels surrounding the screen are quite noticeable, as there isn’t any observable effort to shrinking them, something that may have been facilitated by budget.

 

The Cameras

The cameras on the BlackView A80 Pro is pretty much the main gist here. The Blackview is a low-end /low-cost smartphone that features a quad-camera system.

Despite the fact that some of the features of this Quad camera system may end up being a gimmick, it is nice to see that Blackview made an effort.

As at the time this article was written and published, data on the individual features of the primary cameras device wasn’t known. Blackview has chosen to keep them secret, as the features weren’t listed on their website.

What you have on the Blackview A80 Pro, is a 13MP primary camera, and a set of secondary camera sensors that includes a 2MP, 0.3MP sensor, and another 0.3MP sensor.

For selfies, the smartphone houses an 8MP sensor with a Sony IMX239 sensor.

 

Hardware and Software

As hinted in the preceding paragraphs, the Blackview A80 Pro is a low-end smartphone, and this means one thing. Hardware specs on a smartphone are directed at satisfying basic smartphone tasks.

The cell phone features an Octa-core MediaTek Helio P25 processor, clocked at 2.6GHz.  Comparing the processing power of this processor, to that high-end or mid-range processors, you immediately discover this processor falls in the low-end category.

Also on the Blackview A80 Pro, is 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage, with up to 256GB for Micro-SD expansion. This smartphone features a non-removable 4,680mAh battery. This smartphone supports charging maxed out at 5V and 2A.

Comparing the hardware on this smartphone, to others in the same price range, you find that the smartphone does feature a very sweet deal, as it offers more value for the price.

On the software side, the Blackview A80 pro runs its user-interface on top of the Android 9.0 (Pie) operating system.

 

Connectivity

The BlackView A80 Pro features a 3.5mm headphone jack, USB Type C, dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2.

The Blackview A80 Pro’s internet connectivity is capped at 4G LTE. Nigerian users would able to use the 4G network from all the major telecommunication networks, which include MTN, GLO, Airtel, and 9Mobile.