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I support underdog brand phones that perform like this one
I just received the Shark 8 today to replace the worst phone ever made. I won’t talk about that though.
My first impression of it as an underdog brand phone is that it looks very up to date and well built. It looks more like a $500 – $600 phone. Replace the brand name with with a top brand name and you wouldn’t know the difference. It comes with a case that fits it like a glove and that has a slightly slick but slightly grippy texture. There are better cases but for a free added bonus case, it will work and keep the phone from getting dinged and busted up when it flies out of your hand due to your butterfingers or lack of coordination and you drop it.
The screen saver that was in the box was a different story. It did not cover the whole screen and did not adhere and stick to the screen. I sent BlackView a message about it so I’ll see how good the customer support is for this company and if they are going to send me the right screen protector.
The Shark 8 is very responsive and fast with no lag whatsoever which was my main concern when picking another device. It sets the bar high for other budget phones in it’s price range.
It responds like it has 6gb or the advertised 8gb of Ram and there is a setting that you can toggle on that will expand the RAM and give you another 8gb only when it’s needed. 8gb is the guaranteed RAM all the time and the up to 8gb is in reserve.
I like the lack of bloatware without stripping Android 13’s character. It’s Android but not stripped to to the point where it’s bland. It is just right and IMHO all phones should be equipped like this.
Also the skin that BlackView put over Android 13 looks like a hybrid between Android and the other top OS the way the icons look and some of the unique features it has.
The processor is fast enough that you don’t have to say “come on”, “hurry up” or start tapping your fingers waiting for it to load. It’s instant. As soon as I tap the screen the selected option or link or whatever is selected is already loaded, this also applies to content selected on a webpage online. As soon as I tap something on the screen, it is loaded. If the part about being 4g was left out of the description on Amazon, you would think this phone was able to access 5g the way it performs online. It’s that quick.
Which brings me to my next point. What I don’t understand is how the wifi hotspot that this phone broadcasts is 5g, why is it only able to access 4g data from my network? It should be able to access my carriers 5g network if it can broadcast a 5g wifi hotspot. That would make more sense.
Another thing that doesn’t make sense is that developer options was already in settings so I didn’t have to tap build number x 7 but there was only 1 setting under developer options. Usually the are around 50-60 settings. It’s not an Android 13 revision, it’s a BlackView revision. I enable developer options on every phone I get to turn off the animations to make the phone respond noticably quicker but this device performs like the animations are already turned off.
Overall I am satisfied with this device especially for the price. It does everything I need it to do when I need it to do it, not tap the screen and wait 3 minutes for it to respond. It doesn’t get better than this in this price range. If I had my choice of phones that have prices up to $600, after experiencing this budget phone, I would skip over the competition and pick this one as a daily use device. Because at the end of the day it does everything the other 2 top brand flagship phones do with the same efficiency and speed minus a few small features.
All in all I’m happy with this purchase and will most likely buy another BlackView in the future when and if the Shark 9 & 10 are released.

It did not function properly and I returned it.
It overlaid icons on top of one another did not respond when trying to use it wouldn’t go to sleep wake up whenever I picked it up and that option was not chosen among other things.

Amazing for the $$
I love this phone. Super solid.

Good on paper but definitely needs work! detailed review- tried to be fair…
Fair warning-Only had this phone for about 2 months & happy I bought the insurance to go with it because its a 200$ paperweight now. Im unsure if the issue I had was a malfunction specific to my device so I wrote a detailed review of the rest of my experience. My device was very sun exposure & temperature sensitive! 20 minutes of indirect sunlight I ended up with a white screen until I powered it off to let it cool down. Easily overheated in my back pocket & when overheated & not shut down hairline cracks started forming UNDER the glass & display started failing-digitizer became useless.
OVERALL-Specs showed promise but performance was lacking big-time. First off its a foreign platform base that isnt customizable for the U.S.- so youre stuck with system apps measuring weather in Celsius pounds in kilos and metric system for measurements. battery charging & capacity is ok but depletes rapidly. Boasts dynamic sound but falls short due to easily covered speaker output- sounds great against a flat countertop but on the go its choppy at best. seamless refresh rate for display- not so much. And good luck switching between apps (playing candy crush & someone calls you? it might not even ring-just show up as a missed call) large storage capacity & “boostable” memory? even when high performance memory was activated it still frequently dragged, lagged, and often restarted itself. Bottom line I wont be buying from this company again. Miss my BLU G91Max.

Per qualità, prezzo e prestazioni è un ottimo smartphone. La RAM fisica è 8 GB ma si possono aggiungere fino a 8 GB virtuali e avere un totale di 16 GB. Buoni i 256 GB di ROM di tipo UFS anche perché ci sono smartphone più blasonati che montano ancora le vecchie eMMC. Memoria espandibile con microSD fino a 1 TB e schermo FHD+ con refresh rate fino a 120 Hz che è difficile trovare in questa fascia di prezzo. Le fotocamere scattano delle buone foto anche se sono un po’ lente tra una scatto e l’altro. Il processore Mediatek Helio G99 ha buone prestazioni e non essendo troppo energivoro garantisce una buona durata della batteria da 5000 mAh. Inoltre ha la ricarica rapida a 33 Watt, chip NFC e led posteriore di notifica. Se proprio devo trovare qualcosa di negativo è la mancanza del giroscopio o della bussola magnetica/elettronica ma ciò non influisce nell’uso quotidiano e anche la navigazione GPS è ottima. Detto questo si può dire che sia stato un ottimo acquisto.

Malheureusement, après 3h d’installation et de paramétrage, le smartphone s’est éteint et n’a plus voulu se rallumer, avec un message en anglais “device is corrupt”
Obligé de le redémarrer en mode usine, j’ai perdu toutes mes données. Puis il s’est de nouveau éteint avec le même message. Problème de série sur le Shark 8.