Neither Samsung, nor Xiaomi: a folding mobile phone of 400 euros, which leaves us all of us.

If we talk about folding smartphones, brands such as Samsung, Xiaomi or Huawei will probably come to mind. These three companies have very interesting options and showed that this mobile category can be a good option. They are all less and less fragile, they have the best cameras, they are more powerful and, in addition, there are more and more economical options. But Cheap, folding the Chinese brand BlackView What we saw on the mobile world congress in Barcelona, ​​and this left us aside.

We are talking about BlackView Hero 10The mobile, which, although it was declared several months ago, remained very unnoticed. Mainly, because BlackView is a brand that does not officially work in Spain; Thus, their smartphones are not open as easily as honor or mobile phones.

And the truth is that the hero 10 of the Asian company is not easy to get; You must choose online stores specializing in technology, Chinese stores, such as AliExpress or other stores that sell the imported device. This obviously entails some risks in terms of guarantee or functions available in the software; The risks that are from their prices are the same, many users are ready to suggest. BlackView Folding It costs only 400 euros. Although, yes, everything that shines is not gold.

It reminds me of something

We cannot expect a large amount of a traditional mobile phone of 400 euros; They usually have a very scarce photographic section, either not very cautious design, or performance that is not the most powerful, and this black ideal is no exception. In fact, from the first minute you feel that You are faced with a smartphone of this price: Yes, yes, but at this price.

One of the reasons is that its design, although it can be very innovative, It is not very well builtThe field to get an idea, remember the first folding of Samsung, but when you have already used it for several months; The overlap crosses when it opens and closes, mobile vibrations and wrinkles on the screen are very, very present. We repeat that on a mobile phone expected on a mobile phone at this price.

Its appearance, in fact, is not so bad: it has aluminum frames in matte decoration, which, in addition, are slightly rounded, which makes it much more convenient in your hand. This is a mobile membrane“Thus, it opens vertically and has a small screen outside to see notifications or random widget when it is completely closed. In addition, it is available in two colors: black and a kind of purple.

BlackView Hero 10 is a mobile

Its specifications, as we repeat, are the same as that of the smartphone of 400 euros. In fact, I would dare to say that they are even somewhat worse than that of the mobile devices of this price, given that the traditional models of this price for such brands as Realme or Xiaomi have very powerful processors and a very universal photographic section. Perhaps the most striking of this BlackView Hero 10 is in addition to its design and its price is its internal screen.

The smartphone has a panel 6.9 -Bending Amoled With a resolution of 1080 x 2560 pixels and a frequency of 120 Hz. It looks good, although the wrinkle on the screen is very marked. In addition, the panel also does not have the best design of all folding, which leads to the fact that they are not the same 200,000 times that most traditional manufacturers promise.

As for the performance, the BlackView Hero 10 has a very simple processor: MediaTek Helio G99 to which 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. All this with a battery of 4000 mAh; Very little for what we are used to. As for the photographic section, nothing new: the main sensor of 108 megapixels and the second ultra -yuna camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels.

Folding 400 euros here, but …

Be honest, This is not folding that we would recommend those who are looking for folding; Not only because of difficulty when buying it, but also for the fact that I could cope with such a device. Yes, its price is very interesting, and if you want to experiment with this type of mobile devices and put priorities in format against performance, camera or batteries; Come on, you will not find cheaper folding.

Now the use of this BlackView Hero 10 does not give the same feeling and experience that give, for example, Galaxy Z Flip 6 or Flip, a mixture of Xiaomi; They are clearly much higher, both advantages and in price, but we must take into account that their components and their development are much more expensive than other traditional mobile phones.

In any case, it is very interesting to find out that a folding mobile phone is possible at 400 euros (more and less with it).