Blackview teamed up with German designer Dieter Rams on their Blackview Alife S1, which is now on sale at a surprisingly low price.
Usually when a big name designer is attached to a smartphone design, or anything for that matter, the device’s retail price will be greatly exaggerated. With Dieter Rams behind the wheel of the new Blackvew Alife S1 we expected a similar astronomical price but are happy to see something more down to earth.
The Alife S1 is now on sale and features a rear 13 megapixel Samsung Isocell CMOS sensor (interpolated to 18 MP), built-in LED remote for controlling house hold appliances, dual SIM support and a 1.5ghz Mediatek MT6732 64bit chipset. All of this is built in to a slim CNC chassis with business like lines.
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Blackview are launching the Alife S1 with Android 4.4 Kitkat, but with its 64bit processor we are hoping that Android 5.0 Lollipop will be made available as early as possible.
Full specifications of the Blackview Alife S1 can be found over on the official Blackview website, while the S1 can be picked up for just $179.99 here.
But but… It looks so generic
:O don’t let Deiter hear you 😉 LOL
lel !
References to Dieter appear to have been removed from marketing material.
That’s the Dieter effect.
sorry i cant c any beauty in it. the design regular and curve less.
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מצטער , אינני רואה יופי בזה. העיצוב רגיל וללא פינות מעוגלות
and the PRICE … oh gawd , it BURNS !
I like how it has no curves. Just how I like my women..no wait
Tastes are different, but you’ve got to admit it’s a refreshing design.
They could have atleast stuck the MT6752 Octa in it…
tru
For marketing hype and uber-antutus?
too expensive… 140-50 $ MAX! for a 6732 !
Dude shut the fuck up. You say the same thing on EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE.
how about this , you PRICK :
“STOP EFFING STALKING ME ON EVERY PAGE”
i don’t comment for cvnts LIKE YOU ! :@
Just curious Muhammed what perfectly priced phone did you end up spending your money on?
none so far… , im finding the perfect one ..
arent we all ?
Wow Dieter rams actually designed this? Find that kind of hard to believe given how bland the design is and how the company is basically a no name outfit, this man was basically Jonny Ives no.1 inspiration. Seems like a very strange collaboration. Phone looks reasonable, have to see a review though, not expecting much and why would anyone be launching a phone with 4.4 now 5.0 has been out for so long.
But but… It looks so generic
:O don’t let Deiter hear you 😉 LOL
lel !
That’s the Dieter effect.
References to Dieter appear to have been removed from marketing material.
sorry i cant c any beauty in it. the design regular and curve less.
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מצטער , אינני רואה יופי בזה. העיצוב רגיל וללא פינות מעוגלות
and the PRICE … oh gawd , it BURNS !
I like how it has no curves. Just how I like my women..no wait
Tastes are different, but you’ve got to admit it’s a refreshing design.
They could have atleast stuck the MT6752 Octa in it…
tru
For marketing hype and uber-antutus?
too expensive… 140-50 $ MAX! for a 6732 !
Dude shut the fuck up. You say the same thing on EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE.
how about this , you PRICK :
“STOP EFFING STALKING ME ON EVERY PAGE”
i don’t comment for cvnts LIKE YOU ! :@
Just curious Muhammed what perfectly priced phone did you end up spending your money on?
none so far… , im finding the perfect one ..
arent we all ?
Always wandered… if you choose to take your pictures at 13mp with an interpolated cam, does that affect quaity or give you the normal 13mp shot you would have gotten with a non-interpolated camera? Anyone :D?
I’ve been asking this all over the shop, never got a solid answer.
I would guess that native/true resolution is lost and whatever alternate setting you chose it’s (re)interpolated back down from the already interpolated maximum MP.
Much better to shoot at the maximum MP offered and reduce in an external image editor such as Photoshop down to true resolution. My Ecoo Aurora shots look great done that way. Whereas not so good in camera/phone set to 13mp. Most likely down to better algorithms used.
Thanks Steve.. something like a transcode with music files. I guess you’re right sadly 🙂
Wow Dieter rams actually designed this? Find that kind of hard to believe given how bland the design is and how the company is basically a no name outfit, this man was basically Jonny Ives no.1 inspiration. Seems like a very strange collaboration. Phone looks reasonable, have to see a review though, not expecting much and why would anyone be launching a phone with 4.4 now 5.0 has been out for so long.
Personally I actually like it’s business look.
Always wandered… if you choose to take your pictures at 13mp with an interpolated cam, does that affect quaity or give you the normal 13mp shot you would have gotten with a non-interpolated camera? Anyone :D?
I’ve been asking this all over the shop, never got a solid answer.
I would guess that native/true resolution is lost and whatever alternate setting you chose it’s (re)interpolated back down from the already interpolated maximum MP.
Much better to shoot at the maximum MP offered and reduce in an external image editor such as Photoshop down to true resolution. My Ecoo Aurora shots look great done that way. Whereas not so good in camera/phone set to 13mp. Most likely down to better algorithms used.
Thanks Steve.. something like a transcode with music files. I guess you’re right sadly 🙂
Personally I actually like it’s business look.
No NFC ! Hotknot is very limited usage at the moment. No NFC means no banking apps.
No NFC ! Hotknot is very limited usage at the moment. No NFC means no banking apps.
Design is fine, the price is just too high for a 6732 device, Blakcview think they are Samsung and can still get away with a budget SoC on a hefty price tag. I think 149,99 would have made it a killer product.
Design is fine, the price is just too high for a 6732 device, Blakcview think they are Samsung and can still get away with a budget SoC on a hefty price tag. I think 149,99 would have made it a killer product.