Blackview has been levelling up in terms of features that they use in their devices - love the massive battery and the camera setup used in this phone along with the Dimensity 700 processor.

This is a beautiful review my dude. Someone that talks about all the things i care about in a phone, as far as more advanced settings and customization. A previous review of this phone i watched just complained about a russian app that tries to install more apps you cant get rid of. When it is in fact the default phone set up and they did not pick the correct language.

Never seen anyone do a suck a awesome review like you have Steve. Your the king of reviews thank you.

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Thank u! 🙏

@MrPnew1

Жыл бұрын

his name is Jason :) Steve is his cousin. Steve Villmer

I just found your channel looking for phone review and i love it. So education not only dry specs

One of the most detailed reviews on this phone, bravo

Hi Jason good to see you. Nice phone. Have a lot of fun and get some fun images 👍

Great review, Jason. Thanks👍

Cool phone, thanks for the review Jason.

Awesome video thank you for all of the information.

Great review. Thanks for sharing.

Really enjoyed your review. Have a 9800pro that the screen quits working until I turn off and back on. Thinking it's time to upgrade. I wish someone like you was local so folks could take phones and have them set up correctly and troubleshoot. I'm a really good scientific glassblower and rancher but not competent at all with these dang phones. Keep up the good work.

Nice phone. I could use the thermal imaging at work at times. Live confidently and peacefully

Great review, informative and entertaining…

Edit. Mine finally arrived... It's worth every cent imo. Good enough phone, not much bloatware, I was able to uninstall what I didn't want.

Great work! I ordered this phone 20 minutes ago!

Awesome Jason, keep going man. I buy one right now

Good stuff. Keep up the content

Finally :) ... Hey Jase, when i saw your previous Black View video i said yay he's got the thermal version ... nope not this time ... but now you have and your're the first to show its use in the workshop ... I was seriously thinking of grabbing one a few months ago but ended up with the UNI-T UTi260B thermal cam (similar price for UK) mainly because of the macro lens addon ... damn what a difference in detail ... its awesome ... so i think you may find the Black View will produce better results with a makshift macro too ... or just buy a Thermal cam macro lens, like the Unity's ... btw, great video mate 😎

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙂 I can picture myself having a macro lens taped onto the back at least to try it!

wow that was nice detailed review

I bought the bv9900pro for $450 shipped to my door .Amazing !I have the seek camera for more detailed work but because I can use this outdoors in the rain 🌧️ snow and cold it's better than the seek thermal

Blackview aren't a bad phone. I bought a BV8800 after seeing your review. I'd get another except for the fact when roaming the mobile data fails. IE. NO internet. Pity really. I tried absolutely every solution out there. In the end I had to buy a sim card from the country I was visiting.

You can always add an additional IR flashlight as well to phones with IR.....i made one from some leds and a bilt of soldering

How is this compare to AGM Glory Pro? 1. Which has better thermal camera/resolution? 2. Which is fully compatible with T-Mobile & has GSM? 3. Which has better antenna, clarity, sound & volume? 4. Which has IR infrared camera? 5. Which has more camera resolutions? 6. Which has full tech supports & firmware supports? 7. Which has better screen resolution & glass protection?

Whats the built in speaker like on the Blackview phone? Some forums are saying that it sounds very hollow.

hi Jase. thanks. for good. enough and usable information but stilll Sam confuse for these mobile is waterproof yes or. no. pls advise. . mehrdad

Hi there, the + in the autonomy is due to the difference in the processor the Helio g96 has 12nm transistors, but the dimensity has 6nm transistors. Meaning more power less consumption & heating.

already ordered one BL8800 pro, can't wait )

@jeremyhere2002

Жыл бұрын

Just got mine today but struggling with the carrier stuff.

I was looking at this, does look like a good buy.

Blackview rugged smartphones are just so good at low cost and apart from the camera, credits to thebattery and Mediatek chipset as well.

Does the App give you the temperature of a given point?

Hi. I have a question. Does the radio on your phone work for you? For me, he asks to connect headphones as an antenna, and the phone does not have a headphone output ...

not too important, but something you forgot to mention is that the manufacturer claims the 8000mAh battery can discharge to supply power to external devices, allowing you to use it as a powerbank. did you try that out at all?

I'm fine with lower pixel flir vs. price of better. I do hvac and imaging cams are indispensable. Definitely going to be my next phone one of the versions even see a 100 megapixel one but I have to have the imaging right in the palm of your hands no waiting around to plug it in and sync it up hope it's charged.

Awsome review. ...sat indoors in the middle of England UK.....all foggy outside and the fire lit ....this has helped stop the cabin fever ..

What's the resolution of the thermal camera on the bl8800 pro?

That thermal camera is pretty cool on that phone!

@FixDaily

Жыл бұрын

No it's not, it's pretty bad because the resolution is useless. For the same price you buy a great quality thermal camera without a bad quality phone attached

@adamvoltr6336

Жыл бұрын

@@FixDaily What thermal camera would you recommend? Thx

hi jason.. jbase on thermal imaging.which better.this phone or seek thermal camera.i want to try on finding shorted on iphone.

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

The Seek has better resolution for seeing smaller components.

can you find shorted components with that thermal cam? Does it replace seek with macro lens?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

It works good for finding shorts. It's about half the resolution of a Seek Compact PRO and without a macro lens, it's not as clear tho. I'm probably gonna try to make me a macro lens to stick on it!

Hey bud. Just got the BL8800 pro in my hands today. "Updated" my IMEI and I still can not get or make phone calls, texts, or data. Straight talk Verizon sim. Any clever fixes? If I swap my sim to my Moto one ace 5g everything works... But I'd rather use my my BV.

How many frames per second does the thermal camera record? Thanks

The one has thermal imaging phone, does it have also to detect hidden or spy cam at the same time?

Just wish it had the wireless charging. Most of the phones that my family killed were due to dead ports. Love my BV9600e for the wireless and rugged build quality

a great review steve but we dont have that blackview over here . in the uk.

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Lol, thanks - I have no idea why so many people call me Steve on KZread.

Hello Jason would you suggest this phone for price of 370 euros or samsung and xiaomi for same price range?

Was there a setting for the FLIR to use higher resolution? Or change the settings for FLIR? Maybe enhance the camera even if its not better resolution

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

The only settings I've found to help is the temperature range adjustment. It can be adjusted so that everything is just on the edge of being invisible and then the slightest heat signature will show up by itself. I've not found any settings to help with quality though.

When I try to call this device can record call ??? Without additional app . It's very important

great video. I tried reducing the ul down to 168 and then to 150 but it didn't improve. Any idea what other changes might be made. So far I only know that my recorded outgoing voice message sucks and one voice message from a friend also. I don't want to get too wild with all of those options. it's amazing though and regarding the phones, I'm with you on that, I used to judge people based on whether they are trumpers or not, and now I see I'm doing the same with apple users.....more money than sense.

4:15 are you on the laughing gas again Jason :) Thanks for the review, still watching

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

My wife: "are you really posting it like that?" Me: "hehehe, yep!" I know, I'm stepping over to the dark side in the eyes of Apple users but I'm tellin ya, it's not that bad! lol! :-) Thanks for the comment!

what do you think about the doogee s98 pro? would be nice to make a comparison between the two

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

The Doogee S98 felt a bit laggy compared to the BL8800 & BV8800. That could have just been me being biased though - I didn't run any real benchmark tests.

No noise cancelling is good for letting other people hear stuff a radio station here Uk got an old phone for a reporter when they want to show him doing things

I've been shopping for my first smart phone. I was almost sold on the CAT S22 flip (I know it's not "smart"). But after some last minute... "Let me see what's out there". I stumbled onto some phones that featured FLIR cameras. Away with you CAT, I never knew you! The cool factor has pushed me over the edge. >> STAY TUNED TO THE END OF THE VIDEO!

Love your shirt 😅👌

I am planning to try this Mediatek-powered Blackview smartphone.

So I am trying to decide on the best bang for my buck of rugged phones. Needs are battery life/waterproof/ affordable/ camera would like 64mp or close/ shockproof I like the Gorilla Glass I'd like to have thermal imaging but night vision is fine and has to be GSM for AT&T in the United States please help me I'm going crazy

Go to the park , and turn on the thermal camera and see people Fart ... 😆😆😆

Great review! May I ask you, for how long have you been using BV8800 and now this BL8800? I am interested in buying this BL one, but reading reviews on Trust Pilot, most of the reviews are negative, pointing out the downsides. Did you have any issues with performance, OS, software issues etc.?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I opened the BV8800 sometime in January but didn't develop the courage to move away from Apple until sometime in February~March I think. Recently I've noticed when attaching pictures to an MMS, the keyboard response will lag a bit. Other than that, the performance has been really snappy and overall I've been pleased with the phone. Now that I've gotten used to it, I wouldn't want to switch to a phone with a smaller battery! It's lasting me 4 days without charging. Honestly - I can't see what negative reviews would be but I certainly wouldn't take it lightly and would further research. I lean heavy on buyer feedback for stuff like this.

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

An issue I ran into today but really should have known better - I used my BV8800 to record a short underwater video for an upcoming post and it leaked water through the microphone membranes pretty bad. I've seen the same exact trouble with many, many Apple phones though so I'm not sure why I thought this phone would be any different! I'm posting a teardown video soon to show what happened.

@matex237

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you for the feedback. Yeah, it is pretty hard to find user reviews of phones like this, the most of the reviews are russian. I even watched a russian 40-min video in which the guy was dissasembling the BV8800 (inside should be the same as BL) to take a look at the quality of the parts, and (from what I managed to understand from the subs) he said that he is generally pretty satisfied with the quality (apart from waterproofing which could have one extra layer of protection, microphone membrane that you mention which is easily pierced if you try to clean the mic and push the membrane too hard, and some lower quality parts susceptible to corrosion, but nothing that he didn't already see on some other higher end phones). So it actually all comes down to the OS and how optimized it is. It is great to hear that it works well. I ordered a BL8800, so let's see how it performs. Thanks once again for the great review and the answer!

@MrRedwires

Жыл бұрын

@@matex237 I'm thinking of getting the BL8800 or comparable BlackView phone, now that my current one is breaking down. How's it been so far! I did hear similar things about the OS, but it's hard to find reviews of longer usage times.

Does this phone have native phone recording? Thank you.

Hello Jason. Absolutely android better than apple, if only someone would make a decent android with removable battery, the weakest link in the chain. Love your work, the real deal.

@TY-ob7fz

Жыл бұрын

Btw using the teracube 2e, is good but far from quality of V20 when first introduced and not to quality of Samsung or iPhone presently. But android is far far better platform, especially with SD card.

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I haven't dug into one of these far enough yet but I think the battery is replaceable, after dozen or so screws! Lol 🙂 I had not heard of the Teracube yet. I'll have to check it out online.

Hey could you do a video on everything we need to do to re-write that IMEI code to trick the cell provider, Apparently that code works for all MediaTek Processors, but i want to make sure I don't mess something up.

Hey bud i got my BlackView BL8800 pro in yesterday after watching your review and i was sad because my blackview phone will not let me change the IMEI number can you talk me through it please.

i live in canada i have a BV5900 THIS PHONE is incredibal.the engineer mode is just great.when you get in it you can adjust all channels lte and what ever else shut off some what ever,turn of satilite signals of your choice.i have a sim card no data whats so ever and i can download anything as fast if not faster than if i have data or internet.i run the hotspot to the pc 2 pcs infact i pay nothing for data or internet at all just 10 dollars for phone service so i have a live sim card.set roming on.set data to 900 gb.set warning to 800 gb.set to 4g calling access data using mobile is always on and auto select network.wifi scanning on and use smart connection.had this phone for 18 months not once has it caused any problems.it is ONE SMART PHONE

This phone seems awesome If I didn't have the Z Fold 3 Would definitely buy one of these for the price you pay for the flare camera you get a phone with it awesome ... Pretty awesome how you can write the esn 🤪 No need to use a RiffBox lol Pretty awesome with all the settings Are you able to Root the phone ?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

I was really surprised how easy it was. I was bummed when the first one stopped working after 30 minutes. I went back to my old phone for a long time before learning it was so very easy to "fix". Not sure about rooting yet 🙂

@QsTechService1

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele OK awesome if you get a chance and you email them ask them if it is possible to root The phone I would definitely buy one So I can block all advertising lol 😆

Hello Sir. Can you tell me is BL8800 Pro have an expansion slot for TF/SD Card?

@ambsweet72as

Жыл бұрын

No sd or tf card slot

So how performance good or not...????? I want buy this phone

Distance of detection for hunting?

good Job friend

My bv9800pro is still going strong being beaten to hell by myself and kids on a daily basis and after owning this phone coming up on 2 years now I will never change to another brand even the battery discharge time hasn't deteriorated much at all but that being said hopefully I will be able to get another phone one soon if that be a bv8800 pro or just a new bv9800 pro I'm not sure yet.

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

This is good to know! I've dropped my bv8800 in the bottom of a kayak with an inch of salt water several times and washed it off with fresh water later. I also jumped in the pool with it and swam across the bottom to see how the mics and speakers would behave afterwards. I think if I continued to use it under water, it would eventually kill it but it does have an underwater mode so I wonder just how well it is made. It's hard to imagine water not seeping through mic and speaker membranes. I'm probably going to open the bv8800 to see if anything has been seeping.

@madeofscars9355

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele I can't say much for the mic but I know the speakers are made from a nitrile like rubber although that being said they have a foam gasket that seals the speaker to the back of the phone so if water intrusion was to happen I would be putting money on it getting in via the foam gasket, on my bv9800 beside the camera there's a hole that acts like a breather but it has some kind of hard filter behind it that allows air to be displaced but water cannot pass through it I'm guessing that's there to Ballance pressure when the atmospheric pressure changes I'm not sure.

I would use the thermal imaging to check out the insulation in my walls.

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

I should be using it to check out insulation here for sure. This place needs some serious changes to cope with our sweltering electric bill!

@FixDaily

Жыл бұрын

That's the only use for it

Only bad thing about this phone I haven`t found any carrier that supports it in The USA yet,and I can`t get the IMEI write to work,can someone help me out? I do the code and nothing comes up.

What service were you able to use with the "updated" IMEI? I can not get mine working with my current service.

@troystreet

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever get yours working? I'm using straight talk with their Verizon towers and haven't had luck. Might have to switch to a different carrier

@jeremyhere2002

Жыл бұрын

@@troystreet looks like I'll have to do the same. No luck.

@troystreet

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremyhere2002 I'm going to go to cricket tomorrow. It'll be at&t towers and cost about 5$ more a month. But I want to use the phone lol.

@jeremyhere2002

Жыл бұрын

@@troystreet let me know if it works out. Seems to me that T-Mobile will give us the highest chance of success I'm just not willing to go that path yet

@troystreet

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremyhere2002 I'm only trying cricket since that's what he has in his video. But I'll let you know

So is the bv9000 pro better then bl8800

3 years ago I had a CAT phone with Flir thermal camera

Thanks for the video, please tell us more about phone call issue. You mentioned that the other person complain, but what is it exactly? Is it Echos? Or your voice is difficult for him to hear? .

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

It would make my voice really loud but also picks up everyone else in the room who is talking. It's like there is no noise cancellation on that microphone when using it to talk on the phone. I turned down a gain setting and nobody says anything now. I think I still need to adjust it down a bit more though.

@muathalsharqi1052

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele interesting, I have a rugged phone called Hotwav Cyper 7. People always complain of echos of their voice during calls i tried everything , but nothing works except when I use the speaker on . I think I will change to BL8800 if it is only being loud not echos.thanks

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

@@muathalsharqi1052 When on the phone, people would stop talking and say, "everyone in the room with you is really loud - your phone is picking up the whole room" It also caused me to use speaker phone in order to talk on the phone. It seemed speaker phone picked up LESS of the room noise. I changed a setting in engineering mode to make it so nobody tells me that anymore tho!

@muathalsharqi1052

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele thanks 👍

How much you buy this

Hey I’m pretty sure you can turn off the flir water mark! Did on mine !

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

I'll have to check again! I probably just overlooked it. Thanks

What is resolution and refresh rate of thermal camera ?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

I believe this has a Lepton 2.5 sensor and I just checked the specs - It has a resolution of 80x60 and a refresh rate of 9hz. This is actually less than I thought which means every time I said "about half the resolution of the seek pro" in this video, I was wrong!

I always wondering why your sharp monitor like blue tint on it?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

It's just awful and I think it's toast. It has gradually gone to blue but now I have the blue turned all the way down but it's still mostly just blue. Since it still works, other things that demand money continue to take priority though. I'll replace it one day. Probably with something smaller!

friend which is better the doogee s98 pro or the blackview bl8800pro the doogee brings the thermal and night camera at the same time, but it is 4G

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

I didn't get to use the s98 pro but I like this bl8800 quite a bit. It is noticeably faster than the s98 but I didn't get to compare it against an s98 pro.

@jefersonarredondo6673

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele Thank you very much friend for your answer, were you able to analyze at what distance a person can be distinguished?

So the changing the imei number is like using a vpn?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Not really - the IMEI is what the carrier is using to identify the phone. I think if they really wanted to, they could identify the phone some other way and catch everyone that is using devices that aren't on the whitelist.

I just got mine

Does it have a headphone jack???

Loving the review, Jason. I'm torn between this and the non-pro bl8800 (which I would probably buy the seek or flir cam attachment. Which of those is better?). A couple things I wish were there: -SD card slot 😭 -removable battery -both night vision and thermal camera (just put it on the tab lol) -ir blaster (currently have LG V20 lol) -aux headphone jack port? (Not sure if it doesn't) Trying to create the ultimate phone here, haha. What would you add/change on this list?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for commenting. I can't see why they wouldn't include IR & Thermal! It seems it would only need to be missing a filter to enable IR to work. I think I'd rather do without one visible light camera for it anyway (since there seems to be a few of them lol). The Seek Compact Pro camera is quite a lot better than any FLIR that I've used so far. I do with this model had IR & Thermal. Over time I've gotten used to not having an SD card or headphone jack though.. I really can't say I miss them!

@InnerG84

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele Would you consider doing a teardown vídeo of the bl8800 like you did for the bv? Hopefully they've upgraded the "waterproof" ability on the bl8800s. I was thinking, what if you just put a piece of tape over the speakers and such whilst underwater. Would that do the trick? Happy 4th of July

the flir logo is probably just a png, I wonder if you could just swap the file out (if its accessible)

Magkano price ng BLACK VIEW 8800pro night vision??? At saan makakabili na Store or" Mall???? Rply weyt ko ASAP

You're making me drool again. Well, that phone is, not you. Um regarding the BV8800 (the previous one of these) somehow it got set to auto turn on when lifted/moved and I can't find any way to turn that off and the internet has so far been unhelpful. Have you seen a setting for this somewhere ?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Hmmmm I'm not sure if I've ran into that setting yet. I thought that was the default setting tho? Both of these phones wake up when moved or picked up.

@nerdgarage

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele Ugg. It's highly annoying since I'm always moving it around my limited workspace. And maybe it has been on the whole time and I just didn't notice it while setting it up.

@sharonmiller2090

Жыл бұрын

​@@nerdgarage You can turn that off by turning off the "Head up" in the setting. : )

@sharonmiller2090

Жыл бұрын

You can find it in "Setting - Display - Head up"

@nerdgarage

Жыл бұрын

@@sharonmiller2090 It works !! Many Many Thanks !!! (Gotta love how descriptive the setting is [cough].)

In the meantime I have a £30 AMG8833 and the temperature probe off my multimeter. Is it too early to tell the wife what I want for Christmas?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Oh, wow! That's 8x8😯 and the temperature probe I think is 1x1. I never heard of the amd8833 so I had to Google it. Now have some new ideas for my side projects that I can't ever seem to find time to start! That's a pretty neat little thermal sensor!

YAY AND WOW............................................................

Jason! I'm confused since when did you do a name change to my name ? Steve! & apparently you suck awesome 🤣 I Don't!! wanna know, to much information. You was born awesome!! Now you've shown that phone has a thermal image option & the option to mimic? Any other phones IMEI That makes it "I want one" 👍🏻👍🏻

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏 yes, my internal spell-checker kicked in on the suck awesome comment. Lol 😂 I'm not sure why some people call me Steve on KZread. It's been happening for years tho.

good..

Can i buy your blackview BL 8800 pro , how much i will pay in rupiah ( indonesia )

does it have notification led?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Sad that every where I look these awesome new rugged phones all say they dont support my carriers (cricket) sim cards

heya 1 more good review 30 fps is not much really thionking of buying a new foon as mine is 7 years old

Is there an SD card slot?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately there is no SD card slot.

Nice unit (that's what she said) really though nice phone

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

lol! I'm glad the first Blackview phone I reviewed got me over the initial shock (and family disownment) of going back to Android. The panic when I broke everyone's group iMessaging was very real. :D

@Ed31003

Жыл бұрын

@@ststele as smart phones go mines not - but matches me hahaha android as well -- hey have a great day, week, weekend

I heard these phones break after a month or two. Sucks because they seem pretty cool

@jeremyhere2002

Жыл бұрын

Simply not true. I'm on my second now over 2.5 years.

50 mp? Camera . Ummm why are we buying iPhones for 1500$ how do I get one of these for att?

@ststele

Жыл бұрын

AT&T would say that this phone isn't compatible as it is but if they think it is an "approved phone" then it works.

Спасибо за обзор.

Dang, I don't have a thermal camera, may as well just buy this and get a new phone to boot.

Okay so here's my dilema. I have bought a phone in the past and used the IME numbers from another phone to have the new phone be able to get turned on with my service provider. What that did, it allowed the phone to be turned on however I was not able to use all the features on the new phone. I am so sick of Samsung and refuse to do another Apple product, I'm an android person. I need reviews that comes with no promos from anyone getting paid and would like to buy a phone that lasts more than a year. The Samsung phone I have now I've had for 6 years and it still works great. I need a 5G phone and want something rugged and has majority of the features of the other more known brands like the Galaxy S22 Ultra. Can someone help me with suggestions and possibly refer me to some more reviews that are neutral and honest? Thanks.

@timoburgi3784

Жыл бұрын

The problem with Samsung is the thinking it must be a galaxy S line up. They have A and M line up with mostly a few things missing for soo much cheaper. Mostly saving on the Amoled screen with crazy resolutions and refresh rates. Just get a beefy case and your sorted.