Ok, Blackview Alife S1 delivered on my hand in 5 working days from HongKong (or China?) via DHL express in cost of about 9 USD. First face of box is not like Apple and copycats, freely bigger than their spaceless design and easy to open by cutting two sealed sticker on the bottom.
I can see minimal usable accessories in their package – an earphone, an OTG cable, a micro 5pin data&charge cable and a free voltage charger. Sure it has not contains spare battery !
I can check additional black paper box in right corner, it contains apple-like SIM tray pin tool and quick start manual as written in English, plus bundle half-transparency plastic case with front panel protective film. Alife S1 basically applied protective film on its front touch screen, I can see a film on it after tear off dirty and logo printed thin film. ( And I need adjust film to fit on screen … )
First look was nice. Really light weight and thin like modern internal battery phones. Factor similar like SONY Xperia Z1, and weight is about 1/3. Out shell looks painted from white plastic, it may a negative point for long using in keep clean.
Alife S1 supports dual SIM tray. LTE, 3G(WCDMA) and GSM. I can open SIM trays with bundle pin, but there’s some problem in pull out tray – actually I need really be careful to slowly pull out them.
I need to examine how put my microSD(TF) which side and which SIM tray is right. Exhaused about 3 minutes and eventually find how it be installed like below images.
Primary SIM tray could be installed with nano-SIM (as like iPhone 5 and later). Secondary tray only accept micro-SIM. I could identify with Up(上) and Down(下) as Primary and Secondary.
Or I could put microSD on primary tray like above image. I need choose dual SIM or this, there’s no way to put dual SIM and microSD together.
Rear camera has big metallic circle shelter as like my SONY Xperia Z1. Quality of preview on pre-installed camera app is enough better than Xperia Z1, it was amazing. Specially Alife S1 has dual LED flash light but not like iPhone 5s or 6, just same colored flash light for better exposure.
It is really nice smartphone in price. Or maybe over valued. Here I have describe positive and negative issues of Alife S1.
Positives
- Good LCD quality in 5″ factor if don’t care resolution for HMD.
- Really light weight.
- Adaptive usage of dual SIM tray.
- Loudy talk & external speaker.
- Upper side of 3.5 pi earphone hole.
- No SOFT NAVI !
- Very thin.
Negatives
- Weak in scratch (may see white plastic if paint damage)
- Navigation key is not allowed to Google reference. (order is MENU-HOME-BACK)
- Little bit small battery capacity (2000mAh)
I will continue to detailed review ASAP.
Bonus: How thin is it … ?
