Blackview Tab 15 Review – New Budget Android Tablet Worth Considering

Blackview has achieved great success and wide resonance during the last period, thanks to the leadership and efficiency of its phones and tablet in the market, with amazing specifications and high capabilities, in addition to its appropriate prices compared to other devices most importantly, its commitment to building the latest in elegantly designed technology to deliver great tablet experience for a budget. Once the Blackview Tab 13 was launched, it was highly sought after and loved by users with its SIMO Internet and up to 7280mAh big battery for long-lasting use. However, in Blackview, the pace of technological innovation has never stopped by working on improving its tablet series through the new upgrade under the name Blackview Tab 15.

It’s promising with a 10.5-inch bigger screen coupled with Widevine L1 support designed for 1080p video enjoyment on Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix. Besides, Tab 15 witnesses big battery upgrades and storage expansion by offering an 8280mAh battery and 8GB RAM & up to 6GB RAM expansion. Features that could boost its versatility include 128GB ROM, Doke OS_P 3.0 Based on Android 12, and PC Mode. all of this I will talk about more in this review, so without wasting time let’s move on to the article.

• Ultra-slim Body & Premium Design
• Doke 3.0 system Based on Android 12
• UNISOC Tiger T610 Octa-Core SoC
• 8GB RAM + 128GB ROM
• 10.51″ FHD+ Display
• 13MP Rear Camera, 8MP Front Camera
• 8280mAh Battery, 18W Fast Charging
• PC Mode| Widevine L1 Support
• Dual 4G Network, GPS

Design And Build Quality

At first acquaintance, the Blackview Tab 15 makes a good impression and has got a rendition of the budget tablet design. It looks more expensive than it really is. While it is barely premium when it comes to its appearance, the Tab 15 managed to put together a stylish look without cranking up its price. It has a practical design with an interesting texture that fits comfortably in the hand and does not try to slip out, and the finish is extremely thorough. All of the parts have been superbly put together. As a result, the tablet appears tough. All the elements fit perfectly, the materials feel reliable, and everything is fine in this regard. Despite its aluminum frame, it feels super solid when you hold it in your hands. The edges, ports, buttons, and all the other exterior components have a precise finish, which further boosts the feel-good factor.

The Tab 15 features an aluminum body on the back with a length of 246.4mm and a width of 161.5mm with a frame that gives a kind thickness of 7.3mm a wonderful feeling when held in your hand, despite its weight of 525g. If you ask me about the quality of the manufacturing, there is nothing to complain about it, because Blackview is always working to provide high-quality products to users all over the world at affordable prices. So, The design and build of the Tab 15 are very satisfying.

On The Front

The design of the Tab 15 is beautiful with some touches that make it look more eye-catching and more premium. In front of the device, you have a full screen of 10.5 inches takes 83% of the body. The bezels around the screen are neat, but with prominent edges. The notch for the front camera is classic with an 8MP camera on the middle of the top for taking selfies and video chats, which we will talk more about soon. What kind of glass is used here is unspecified.

On The Back

On the backside, you have a flat and clean panel from metal with a premier look and came in three colors, Silver, Blue, and Gray, what catches your attention is one camera setup and a flashlight, with a rather bump that literally rises a millimeter above the body and an embossed Blackview logo at the middle.

Ports And Buttons

On the right side are the power button and the volume up / down buttons and a 3.5mm audio jack, Also there Type-C charging port. on the left side, we find the dual SIM slot that holds two nano-SIM cards or a single nano-SIM card with a MicroSD card, Last but not least, at the bottom, has dual speakers and magnetic pins to connect with the keyboard.

Fingerprint

Through all this, it is clear that there is no fingerprint reader, which is what bothers me the most here because for me and for many users it makes unlocking the screen a lot easier. Fortunately, Tab 15 supports face unlock, which is not as secure as a fingerprint, or even effective in all circumstances, but it does exist.

Blackview Tab 15 – Display Quality

Now, let’s move on to why I fell in love with this tablet. The display on the Blackview Tab 15 is one of the best that you get with almost every other budget tablet nowadays, with a 10.51-inch IPS with FHD+ resolution bigger than the 10.1-inch display of its predecessor, with up to 4% wilder view enjoyment. And has a 60Hz refresh rate with a high resolution of 1200 x 1920, so you can enjoy any content on the tablet with good color accuracy and brightness, The bezels around the screen are thin to deliver a better experience.

The first thing that caught my eye was the colors on this display, which look more vibrant than you’d expect from a low-cost tablet. Even the black levels are pretty good for the price, and that very well explains why the screen has a good contrast ratio and vibrant colors, and the content on the screen doesn’t look very sharp. But that’s what you get for the price.

While on a sunny day the screen does not fade and remains readable, Of course, this does not apply to direct sunlight. This type of screen is the best you can get on a budget tablet and provides good color reproduction with no picture distortion and blue light protection for comfortable reading. Yes, this screen is not better than an AMOLED screen, but it remains better than other LCD screens and is suitable for this price range. In short, It has by far the best display I’ve seen in a budget tablet, and I find it perfectly adequate for web browsing and content consumption., you will get the best value for what you pay, a large and high-quality screen suitable for media consumption, whether you are watching the video, playing games or browsing the social media.

Blackview Tab 15 – Cameras

Rear Camera

So far, the overall rating of the Blackview Tab 15 tablet is more than great, but this does not mean that its ideal, especially when we are talking about a medium-cost tablet, The Tab 15 has a single rear camera with a 13MP sensor from Sony IMX258 and an LED flash. That is typically what you get with any affordable tablet nowadays and maybe not be capable of capturing the details, colors, or ranges to produce high-quality images. So, you should not expect too much in terms of photo quality.

In spite of very basic camera hardware, the Tab 15 manages to capture pictures with decent image quality, at least in daylight. The images look bright, vibrant, and quite detailed for the price. But, Low-light environments bring out the limitations of this camera. Although the pictures look bright, they have a really bad dynamic range and lots of noise. The level of detail is also low, which makes the image look soft and unimpressive. Suffice it to say, if you are expecting better camera performance then perhaps you should consider spending a bit more.

Video Recording

The Blackview Tab 15 can record videos at up to 1080p resolution and 30fps. Although that looks good on paper for a tablet of this price tag. The quality of the videos is really bad, the amount of detail in 1080p videos is so low. The videos also come out very shaky and have poor colors and dynamic range and this is not a big difference from other tablets.

Front Camera

Thankfully, the Blackview Tab 15 adopted an 8MP Samsung®S5K4H7 front camera was in the acceptable range provided there is a lot of light. Selfies taken with the tablet look bright and have a healthy amount of detail. The colors look slightly washed out, but that’s something that other similarly-priced tablets also suffer from. So, Tab 15 gets a pass here, the images taken with the front camera in daylight are certainly social media worthy.

But, selfies captured in low light have significantly fewer details and contain a lot of noise. But you have to keep in mind that other similarly-priced tablets also suffer from those issues. Fortunately, the images at least look bright and have good color reproduction.

Blackview Tab 15 – Overall Performance

If we talk about performance, then in normal use, the Blackview Tab 15 is quite nimble and perfectly copes with daily tasks – messengers, mail, web surfing, social networks, videos, and even games. as everything worked efficiently and without facing any problems with stopping applications or high degrees.

Okay, let’s talk seriously, Well, the Tab 15 has a Unisoc T610 processor, Although is not the most powerful chipset among affordable tablets, it is going to handle all the basic tasks including multi-tasking. When exposing Blackview Tab 15 to some tasks that need more effort and there is nothing better than playing games with high settings, the conditions differ according to the application, game, or any type of program that need large resources, and because the processor used is Unisoc T610 based on Octa-Core with two fast ARM Cortex A75 cores at up to 1.8 GHz and six power-efficient ARM Cortex A55 cores at up to 1.8 GHz. The SoC furthermore includes an LTE modem and TSMC in 12nm FinFET. This processor offers powerful performance and is fast enough to give you a hassle-free experience when doing daily tasks like gaming, watching videos, browsing, etc. Also this processor it’s present in many models of famous brands such as Honor Play 20 or Realme C21Y even Umidigi A13 Pro. So, Smartphone with this CPU at price under $200 is a good choice.

Thanks to the integrated Mali-G52 3EE GPU, the performance was good in games, but it depends on the type of game and its requirements, and sometimes there is a kind of delay, although it did not constitute an obstacle, and this in games such as CoD mobile and PUBG. However, all you have to do is play on the settings from Low to medium.

Most of the applications ran very quickly because Blackview Tab 15 comes with 8GB LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB eMMC 5.1 storage, and if that is not enough can be expanded the storage via a microSD card up to 1TB, and even RAM can be expanded up to 6GB RAM expansion from 8GB to 14GB without extra cost by memory expansion technology also, It’s one capability you don’t often find in a tablet around this price segment. So the multitasking, browsing between applications was smooth and more than enough for most of the tasks that you can do with a tablet such as keeping many applications or large games running in the background. In Short, the capacity it offers is very good and you do not have to think about choosing, and for this price, it’s a good deal and will give you a very positive experience.

Those specs are a recipe for midrange performance, and that’s indeed what you get with the Blackview Tab 15. Expect performance to be suitable for basic use, it’s an octa-core CPU, so you will be able to use it for calling, messaging, video streaming, gaming, listening to music, and so on. In numbers, Tab 15 achieved about 220,000 on the Antutu benchmark, and this tells you about the hardware performance of this tablet. However, games should not be the main reason for purchasing this tablet. Generally, the performance is more than impressive and maybe the best in this category, so far it’s a fierce competitor compared to Alldocube iPlay 40 Pro or Teclast T40 Pro.

Playing Content

Playing the content on YouTube, was very smooth. You can play videos at a maximum of 1080p at 30FPS without any problems or lag, and up to 2K at best with some slight stutter. And one of the main points of the Blackview Tab 15 tablet has Google Widevine DRM L1, so with paid services like Netflix and Amazon Prime you can view 1080p High-quality cinema-level video and film, and this level maybe not be found on all budget Chinese tablets without exaggeration.

Sound Quality

Blackview also did an excellent job with the speakers. In terms of audio capabilities, the tablet punches above its weight with dual loudspeakers onboard. The sound is great for watching movies or listening to music, with rich and detailed sound. Thanks to the dual box speakers, Blackview Tab 15 brings ultimate enjoyment of a sense of technology so that you can enjoy the epic theater-level movie at home with ease. The clear sound produced by the Smart-K Quad-BOX speakers without distortion whips you into extreme excitement and thrill when gaming, listening to grand symphonies, and watching movies.

Doke 3.0 system Based on Android 12

Blackview Tab 15 is shipped with the Android 12.0 version, bringing new features like chat bubbles, conversation-prioritizing, screen recording, one-time permission, privacy dashboard, split screen mode, and some interesting customization additions with UI that has better gesture navigation controls, a dark theme, and contains most of the features that come with the system, the most important of which is the presence of all Google services, Making the tablet experience smoother and more personalized.

Doke OS_P 3.0 system based on Android 12 renders its extreme fluency experience and elegant UI interface that amuse you and saves you time and it is well appraised by users. This operating system is the fruit of the persistent effort of the Blackview software team to design a more customized and fluent OS for a more intelligent user experience. For example, Doke OS_P 3.0 comes with a bunch of self-developed apps such as Cold Room, and System Manager.

And for office workers and students, the good news is that Tab 15 will be loaded with the WPS office set that will allow users to open word files, excel sheets, and powerpoints all in one app, improving the running efficiency of the OS.

PC Mode

The tablet also features a PC mode, which is found on other tablets manufactured by Huawei and Xiaomi. So Blackview Tab 15 will become a portable notebook in seconds on the PC mode combined with a keyboard + OTG mouse connection, working smarter and easier as if you were on a computer, instantly liberating productivity. At the same time, it acts as a mini PC or small-size laptop with a responsive touching screen, speeding up your productivity as soon as possible. With its practical PC mode, there is no doubt that you can enjoy great convenience in editing business documents, taking class notes, and having online conferences.

Connectivity & Call Quality

Connectivity options for this tablet include a high-speed Wi-Fi network that supports 2.4GHz / 5GHz AC power that works well and provides your maximum internet speed, Meanwhile, this tablet supports BDS, GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO the top 4 satellite navigation systems, and A-GPS internet assisted positioning not the best but it works. Also, has Bluetooth 5.0 and 4G LTE multi-band to offer good signal quality and coverage for making phone calls and accessing the Internet easily.

Blackview Tab 15 Battery And Charging

Budget tablets nowadays offer a great battery life. The Blackview Tab 15 has a large 8280mAh battery pack as well as a display and a processor that consumes very less power. Yes, the processor is not as efficient as that of its rivals, but it certainly consumes less energy than mid-range or high-end SoCs, owing to its low clock speeds.

This is very nice for an inexpensive device and goes around 8 to 10 hours of screen-on time without any worries of continuous use for surfing the Internet, Google, YouTube, and following social media, of course, the time is less when playing games. And with moderate use, it will stay with you for a whole day on one charge it mostly takes about 2 hours to fully charge using Type-C with 18W charging speeds. However, I can say that the battery was satisfying.

Final verdict

Blackview Tab 15 is a good tablet that has the potential to beat its competitors in the price range it belongs to and is considered a mid-range tablet, I think is one of the best budget tablets in 2022, with a good processor, abundant memory of 128GB, 8GB RAM, support fast charging 18W, and an FHD screen and the most important feature is Widevine L1 support that allows you to watch streaming services in high quality. but that does not make it flawless as it lacks a fingerprint reader and has acceptable camera quality. however it gives you powerful performance at a low price, so if you are looking for a tablet at this time, you will not get anything better than Tab 15 in this price range.

Blackview Tab 15 Price & Availability

Usually, better performance means a higher price, but not in the case of Blackview Tab 15. The tablet is now only priced at $185 on the Aliexprees. So, don’t miss the chance to snatch up at one, And to view its price or buy it, you can access the offer by clicking on the store icon.

• Blackview Tab 15 Tablet
• Screen Protector (pre-applied)
• Tablet Case
• Type-C Cable
• Power Adapter
• SIM Tray Ejector
• Quick Start Guide

Blackview Tab 15 Specifications