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Leaked exclusive renders

With the increasing demand for better visual experience, this year numerous smartphone manufacturers have released their smartphones with larger-size screen. Chinese mobile manufactures, Bluboo Mobile just launched their 6.0 inch Maya Max, and now a set of pictures of their upcoming smartphone named Bluboo Mini are exposed.

The new Bluboo Mini comes with 4.5â€™â€™ qHD IPS	960x540 display. From the exposed pictures, we can find the device is really small, exquisite and would fit perfectly well in your hand. Bluboo declared that the new Bluboo Mini would not compromise on visual performance with smaller display, and would produce vivid and colorful images

Stayed tuned for further news about Bluboo Mini.

Bluboo Mini Review

It is a comeback to 4.5 inch smartphones.

Mini is an addition to the Bluboo line of budget phones and is a strong contender in the market for those consumers that seek a phone with a high visual impact and low price and good hardware features.

Bluboo Mini is packed in white carton box which contains Mini, charger & cable, Warranty and user manual.

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION

The Bluboo Mini is all plastic structure with plastic frame metal electroplated effect on the sides which gives an elegant and unique image.

Design is attractive with the unique geometric texture of the back cover with whiteï¼Œblackï¼Œred and blue for options. Mini build gives an elegant impression. The build of the device is solid, The phone is firm and it doesnâ€™t bend.

Bluboo did a good job designing budget smartphone Mini with an appeal of upper class.

Standard volume rocker and the power button made of plastic are placed on the right side, which is a standard. The back cover has a nice cool looking pattern of chick plastic very aesthetic in handling in four colors white, red, black and blue.

On the back which I find not very practical there is speaker chamber.

DISPLAY

The display packs a 4. 5-inch qHD IPS 960x540. Screen Density good for an general phone on 240dpi.

Pixel density is average. Display gives more natural colors and display is very bright for a budget phone. Much better than in many Doogee and Homtom competitors.

The colors are quite vivid and natural. Viewing angles are excellent with little to no color and contrast changes when viewing from extreme angles. Viewing angles are good and the screen is readable even in direct sunlight. The control buttons are not back-lit but they are good visible in daylight.

The display is 2 point multi- touch.

The response of the digitizer is really good. It reacts even on gentle touches with fast and precise response. The auto-brightness setting works quite fine.

PERFORMANCE & STORAGE

Bluboo Mini Hardware features:

* MT 6580 1.3 GHz

* Mali 400 GPU

* 5MP main camera (interpolated to 8 MP) GC 5005

* 2 MP front camera (interpolated to 5MP) GC 2365

* 4.5 inch display qHD IPS 960x540 resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 4

* battery 1850 mAh

* 1 GB RAM

* 8 GB of storage

* 3G

* Android 6.0 Marshmallow as the OS

* 1 x Full size SIM 1x Mini SIM

* SD card up to 264GB

The heart of Bluboo Mini is Quad-core processor MT6580 clocked at the speed of 1.3 GHz.

MTK 400 GPU .

RAM memory capacity is 1 GB.

Internal storage capacity is 8 GB from which 4.6 GB is free with SD card expansion slot up to 264GB.

AndroBench â€“ eMMC performance is very average especially in regard to Random Write of just 1 MB/s.

Antutu Benchmark results.

Overall performance is about average considering the 50USD price range it is self-evident on the AnTuTu Benchmark of 22227 which I do for the fun of benchmark fans but which is not to be relied on very much.

BlLUBOO MINI GPS

I have made the GPS test outside the house.

The first cold lock on the Bluboo mini took more than 5 minutes, and subsequent locks took far too long

No 3D fix with 2D fix hard to get. GPS of Mini is not to be used with a navigation at least not mine unit.

Mini supports GPS and A-GPS no Glonass . .

NETWORK

Band (3G): WCDMA 900/2100 MHz

Band (3G): WCDMA 850/1900/2100 MHz

Mini has 3G support. No 4G and no LTE

SENSORS

CAMERA

The rear camera has 5 MP GC 5005 used already with success in many budget phones

Photos are of an average quality and details

Above I include a sample.

If you enjoy taking selfies this model is definitely not for you since the front camera also has 2 MP GC 2365 camera. This interpolated to 5MP selfie camera is really average. Just adequate images for social sharing.

OPERATING SYSTEM (OS)

The all new Bluboo Mini runs on Android 6 Marshmallow with Phenix Launcher, which is energy efficient. A standard user will quickly find his way while using this device and the overall user experience is at its top. There are few bloat-ware apps pre-installed which after rooting can be removed. No spontaneous restart occurred to me during the review. Everything is running smoothly.

The system has a set of smart gestures.

BATTERY

1850 mAh is just enough for daily task since Mini has 4.5 display and energy efficient MT6580 and Android 6.0

SOUND

An average sound during the media playing due to sound chamber at the back of the phone.

Good quality of sound during GSM and Wifi calls.

In my list below you can see the arranged qualities and flaws of this handset.

PROS

â€¢ Back camera 5 MP GC5005

â€¢ Elegant plastic with electroplated metal effect on the sides and chick geometric pattern

â€¢ Battery of 1850mAh

* 256GB expansion for SD card

* qHD display with 2 point multi-touch

CONS

* Old 3G CPU

* no HD screen

* lack of etui in the box

CONCLUSION

The whole configuration of Bluboo Mini seems quite decent and could satisfy the essential needs of users. Bluboo offers Minii at 49 USD so they kept their promise when mentioned that it would be more affordable than ever.

Bluboo website: http://www.bluboo.com.cn/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bluboomobile.

Place for support and TWRP download

Support thread and TWRP download

http://xdaforums.com/android/general/bluboo-mini-support-twrp-t3496380

Install standard MTK drivers.

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3945744&d=1479908355

Use the SPFlash Tool 1552 or latest

https://androidmtk.com/smart-phone-flash-tool

https://androidmtk.com/flash-stock-r...one-flash-tool

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