No doubt, 2017 is the year of bezel less phones, the Samsung S8 sports “Infinity Display” technology a kind of screen that goes side to side leaving border on top and bottom. Looks like Meiigoo, a young tech firm, is taking advantage of this new trend impulsed by Samsung and other brands to give us its new product, The Meiigoo S8, and impersonator of the crown phone of the popular company from Korea.
Design
Metal and Glass are the main element of its construction, Meiigoo has unique texture, features a 3D curved glass both on the front and back which is achieved by the advanced heat-bending process. The curved edges add enhanced beauty and grip feel to the Meiigoo S8. It has a large screen which occupies the 81% of the total area of the front part. Three colors are available; Gold, Black and Blue.
As mention before, the Meiigoo S8 has a body and chassis made from aeronautical grade aluminum, sanded and polish to have a texture for easy grip, in its narrowest part just measure 3mm.
In the box you will find the handheld, USB type C cable for charging and data, a tiny user manual, SIM card pin for extraction and power adapter.
Hardware
This phablet is powered by a regular combination you can find in its price range; the Mediatek MT6750T CPU, a octa-Core SoC with 4 cores running @1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A53 and 4 cores @1.0GHz ARM Cortex-A53 for less demanding taks. This chip is married with a dual core GPU Mali-T860 runnign @650 MHz. 4GB of RAM, LPDDR3 with bus speed of 833MHz are there for the processor, there’s memory for user also, a ROM of 64Gb with external space Support up to 256GB using the hybrid SIM tray.
Meiigoo S8 will feature the trendy full display design made from Sharp, with the aspect ratio of 18:9 with a Screen size 6.1 inches IPS, LCD, HD+ Display (1440 x 720 Pixels), more than enough for common users.
Signed from Sony, it’s dual camera follow the trend, a doble sensor to achieve a bokeh effect on pictures, something usual in professional cameras. The principal sensor is 13mpx and the secondary is a 5mpx, with Single-LED Flash and AF Dual Rear Camera.The front facing camera sports a 5mpx sensor from OV, comes with grand angular to capture all you group of friends and beauty function to enhance your handsome significant other.
Its unibody design achieve a non-removable lithium-polymer battery of 3,300mAh, a bit more that the one is carried by the Galaxy S8. Don’t worry about getting out of juice, this phone comes with Pump Express 3.0 from Mediatek, which gives Meiigoo a rapid charge feature via the type-C connection.
Review
There’s no error with this type of phones, with that cocktail of hardware married with Android Nougat, here in iGeekPhone, think that’s enough power to move every app and game you need for your daily basis, also the Meiigoo S8 comes with an exquisite design inspired from Samsung flagship. The power from midrange with the looks from highend.
Just for the record, Mediatek has achieved a reliable GPS, so, forget those times when using a mediatek soc was a synonymous of lost sat connection.
Conclusion
You can have almost the same features of the top-noch smartphone paying only the third of the price, that’s what Meiigoo S8 is offering. At this moment is on presale @Coolicool, just paid $ $165.99 USD , the lowest price than any store.