At MWC this year Bluboo will launch up to 3 possible devices, and at least one of them will be the new budget Bluboo Picasso.
The Picasso’s attention to design is what will help the low-cost phone stand out from the rest of the budget smartphone crowd. In this first real photo we can see the all white phone has a reflective pattern design on the rear, narrow borders and an alloy chassis.
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The design and low-cost of the phone along with a front facing 8 mega-pixel camera are certainly going to be seen as standout features for certain buyers, plus Bluboo say the Picasso will be one of the first 2GB RAM phones running the budget quad-core MT6580 chipset from Mediatek.
Other details include 16GB internal memory, a 5-inch HD On-Cell display and a price tag of just $99.99.
We will be at MWC to get our hands on the Bluboo Picasso and see what other devices the company have on show so keep posted.
Is it worth it? With that soc, you’ll going to spend all of your days at mwc waiting for it to boot ?
why cant they use the 6732 , which is so powerful with the T760 GPU and the fact that it has been a while we saw it , so it’ll be pretty cheap !
Dont worry, the lied about specs as always, when the phone arrives, it’s even worst.
lol .. thats even more horrible !
Sadly, 6732 haven’t been under production for months now… You know, they had to downgrade that because it was almost as good as 6753 is
damn shame … it was the PERFECT encapsulation of the phrase “small but powerful” , such a great performer in phones !
*sigh* i long for the day to see this chip in phones below $100 now !
It was as powerful as the mt6753, no wonder they took it out to let the octacore shine (kind of) lol
weird ass decision … an MTK quadcore beating a SD octacore’s ass (the 615) and they decide to put it out ?!
would it FRICKIN KILL THEM to use the 6732 which is loads powerful and probably selling at cheapshit rates atm ?!
wtf are bluboo thinking ?!
Yea not sure I understand this at all.
my comment or bluboo’s stupid hardware choices ?
Yup, but after reading Andi’s comment on another story I kind of understand it. A lot of these 6580 phones are meant for markets with no access to LTE.
but we HAVE LTE in Pakistan ….
which countries are YET to get 4G ?!
EDIT : wouldnt the 6732 FUTURE PROOF the phones in those countries and allow for phone longevity there , thus profiting bluboo in a rather subtle way?
Microsoft is targeting a lot of these countries for Windows Phone, and we have strong sales in several of them. According to my latest information:
Egypt
Ethiopa (began deployment in 2015)
Congo (began deployment in 2015)
Sudan
Afghanistan
Vietnam
Cambodia
Bangladesh
Iraq
Mynamar
Thailand
Some of these countries have n LTE network that is limited to just the capital or large cities (like in Cambodia), others the cost of LTE per month exceeds the average monthly salary of workers (like Thailand) so it’s really not a viable option. These countries alone (and there are a few smaller ones) make up about 600 million people.
i see … quite the news.
but
didnt you just leak company info/plans 😀 ??
Not really, the research above was done by an alaytical firm hired by Msoft and it’s information that is available to anyone in the industry that wants it. As for the second part Microsoft has made it public that we are targeting developing nations with Windows phone. It was actually never the plan but it just worked out that way after we strong sales in countries in Asia and Africa.
what’s the difference beween On-cell and In-cell ? what’s OGS ?
http://www.flatpanelshd.com/focus.php?subaction=showfull&id=1348049303
This article does a good job breaking it down.
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The price $99.99 for the specifications
WTF is this ?
Garbage grade SoC. A shame that they didn’t used the MT6735/32 SoC and price it a little higher at 105$-110$… It would be much more attractive than it is now.