HomeBQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View Review, Price, Performance & Full Specs

BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View Review, Price, Performance & Full Specs

BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View is a budget smartphone that operates better when you don’t stress it. If you must enjoy using this smartphone, you must be making use of low performance apps. Nonetheless, this new mobile phone has some features that will endear it to the hearts of a few people.

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Design and Display of BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View

Here’s a smartphone that’s made of plastic and it has the BQ logo at the rear. It weighs 152 grams and it measures 10.1mm in thickness. It comes in black, gray, blue, red, purple, green, and gold colors. The dimensions are 72 x 146.5 x 10 .1 x m mm. However, it is not water resistant.

Display type is TN capacitive touch screen. The screen size is 5.34 inches and it has resolution of 480 x 960 pixels. It comes with 16 million colors. The pixel density is 201 ppi. In the same manner, the screen to body ratio is 70 percent. Aspect ratio is 18:9.

Camera Features

There is a rear camera to BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View. It is a 5 MP camera with LED flash. However, the image produced is below par. The video performance is 720p@30fps and it comes with FHD recording. Other features included auto focus, continuous shooting, digital zoom, exposure compensation, geo-tagging, HDR, panorama, self-timer, touch to focus, and more.

In the front area, there is the 2 MP camera which stands for selfies. This area has lesser features than the rear camera for the device.

Hardware and Software

Android 8.1 Operating System Oreo Go Edition lives in the BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View, and the user interface is modified. The MediaTek MT6580M SoC chipset is powering the device. The process technology is 28nm 32-bit architecture. Furthermore, the CPU is Quad-core 1.3 GHz 4-cores. The GPU for graphics is ARM Mali-400 2-cores.

Storage Capacity in BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View

For sake of space, there is 512MB of RAM, which could not be expanded. However, the internal storage is 8GB and that can be expanded up to 128GB through a microSD card.

Network and Connectivity

In the BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View smartphone is able to hold 2G and 3G network. 4G is clearly out of it for users. This means that the device can only take GSM and WCDMA network. No LTE technology is found on the BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View.

Other connectivity components include Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, mobile hotspot, Bluetooth, GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, USB 2.0, HDMI, 3.5 mm audio jack. However, there is no infrared and NFC in this device. Fortunately, there exist two Nano SIM card slots for handling the 2G and 3G networks.

Battery life in the BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View

There is a 2150 mAh Li-Ion battery which is removable. You can use fast charging technology, though there is no wireless charging technology in this smartphone.

Price and Availability

The price of BQ Mobile BQ-5300G Velvet View is put at the range of $60 – $69 USD. The device was announced in the month of October and also made available during the same month. However, it will be available in several mobile smartphone stores online and offline.

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