Vodafone Smart V8

Brancaman

Have it for a year now and by far the best phone i've had from Vodafone. Works flawless and his battery last for 10 hours of regular usage. Great display high quality camera device also.Very happy with this.

needtoknow

is it qi enabled? for wireless chargers?

Rehan

that will be done at local mobile shop at cost of 500(note: price may differ on shops)

Ash

I brought this phone off trade me and did a factory reset and i now need the gmail account that was previously connected to this phone to open it but i cannot get a hold of the person i bought from. Is there a way to reset the phone without needing the previous gmail account??

TheBoy

Aye, got this phone, and. it was good.

Macbeth

It has a carrier logo branding! (Just kidding)

Anonymous

This phone sucks. I bought it because my old phone's battery was becoming unreliable. But, out the box, this phone gave 10hrs max. After turning screen brightness all the way down, uninstalling everything I could, disabling all forms of auto-update, and using battery extender, I might get 24hrs, if I don't use it for anything other than checking the time. It's battery estimates are always wildly optimistic, but Standby mode uses up most of its battery life. Which is infuriating, because I go to sleep and it's on 95%, and wake up to its low-battery warning. This is basically a corded phone with a screen.

Anonymous

This phone started off ok, but it's rubbish now, no signal reception, if iam in a building then just forget it, battery life non existent, hangs all the time, can barely make a call on it, it's disgraceful for a phone that is not very old, to do anything about it I have to send it away for 7 days and be without a phone, not happy at all with this

Anonymous

i cant send stuff on snapchat because the navigation keys are in my way can anyone help me pls

Anonymous

Hi there did you manage to solve the issues with snap chat? I just bought that phone I've tried to change the navigation settings but the keys don't work either. So snap chat won't work at all, may take the phone Back

Grig123

Don't worry about finger print You can make another one.

John

Great all rounder. Well built, very sturdy. Has finger reader on back but won't read my finger! Very fast responsive screen!

AnonD-730234

Battery is non-removable according to the manual.

Shannon

How do you

Flannel

Yeah, you can.

Flannel

Yeah, you can.

Jim

You can't send snap chats on this phone

PJF

I have this device for 3 months and it has proven to be a very decent smart phone. It is comparable to the Nokia 6 in performance with a newer chipset the 435. It is a smooth operating phone if not the fastest but it gets the job done no matter what it is used for. The screen is bright and the colours really pop. The 16MP rear and 8MP front cameras are very good and with plenty of manual controls and other photo options. It is all round a far superior device to last year's Ultra 7. If it were sold under any other brand name apart from Vodafone it would be a far more popular device. It is as good as any other lower end mid range phone on the market right now.

AnonD-706434

Smart Ultra 6 was a revelation, produced by the Chinese company ZTE. The Smart Ultra 7 was produced by Alcatel for economy reasons i suppose. Poor product. Smart Ultra 8 (V8) produced once again by ZTE. It seems Vodafone learned its lesson. Ultra 8 - Pros: it's a Best Buy, responsive, 32 Gb ROM, 3Gb RAM, Fingerprint reader that works perfectly, superb design, contrast and color photos better than Ultra 6, photos of the subject in motion without streaks behind it, strong volume and bass much beter than Ultra 6. Cons: The pictures are a bit grainy, like the Sony Z1 that I owned before Ultra 6; In low light grains becomes upsetting; The On / Off button is uninspired placed on the left side. The Ultra 6's was on the right side right under the volume. If you turn it on the landscape mode, chances are very high that you will touch this button with your left hand's big thumb and close the device while playing a game or taking a picture. After 3 weeks, I'm still not used with it. Personally, I would have liked to have touch buttons outside the screen, underneath it as well as Ultra 6. So, it takes 2 steps: One to activate the virtual buttons bar and the second to push them. Besides that, the active screen gets smaller because of the 3 buttons bottom bar. It would be great if the next generation of Ultra, V9 or so, would have dual cam and IP68/69.

SavageCMT

Have had no issues like that. No issues whatsoever.

AnonD-639597

not worth the money Vodafone is worth next to nothing if you sell it second hand

pb

not very compatible with Snapchat app. Anyone experience any issues? Phone navigation keys block some of the snapchat function keys, especially when trying to send.

smartfonenew79

Love this phone but does it have a facility for answer phone? I.e. Can someone leave a message? Bought in Spain as live here but don't speak the language therefore the leaflet useless.

AnonD-695913

Its not very clear the Radio information, according to the voda shop and i know you should believe that its cat 6 so this or a p9 lite is their any other cheaper phone that does cat 6 im purchasing this phone when my EE mast goes 4g+ and allows you to use 2 xmitters

AnonD-693843

FYI: Vodafone Ireland very recently pushed an o.t.a. 'force' update that cannot be skipped or avoided in any way. That update kills double-tap to wake. It also causes problems with admin right, e.g. fingerprint unlock clashes with Arrow Launcher's double tab to lock feature. Go figure. Worst of all: I tried 2 V8 devices, and both suffer from significantly poorer 3G/4G reception. Frequent dropped calls where, in 12 years with Vodafone, I never had a single dropped call. Oh, and bizarrely after the update certain Developers Options are enabled by default such as btsnoop hci logging. ALTHOUGH dev options are NOT visible in settings. Result: random and fairly chunky btsnoop_hci.log files - in one instance a 600MB (!!!) after a transfer of 5 ordinary jpegs. Ouch. Since Vodafone Ireland probably didn't cook up the update, I wonder if UK handsets will have similar problems.

lil dude

where do I buy this phone? Just looking at my options

[email protected]

Can it make video call?

pugsley

why has the contact and messages aps disappeared from the front screen?

Jenny

Bought this and unlocked on eBay, nice big multi color notification LED on it. Very fast and nice alternative to a Nokia 6. Smart V8 has the newer Snapdragon 435 also.

dclanz

Pretty solid specs on this phone at the price.

Van

It means to keep the trees from falling over

weeebooo

what does root mean???

Van

Well duhhhh!

Van

So it has the Apple store ?????? Lol

AnonD-681377

I'm sure we can root it soon

AnonD-681377

Got one this morning , used to have an iPhone 6 , had to sell due to circumstances, had a budget smart 7 prime which was a bit rubbish, but so far this phone is awesome , really fast , does every thing the iPhone did just as well if not better , very happy at the second but will have to see in next few weeks if there are any problems but so far really very happy with it

AnonD-441601

I am see stats at gsmarena my friend so i said my opinion. Thats not clueless but clever. I am able to read :-)

AnonD-681165

This looks like a very decent upgrade to last year's Smart Ultra 7 which was a very good device. I'm getting this device in a few days and can't wait to test it out.

Van

Don't know phone, not available in country. How do you know it's definitely a good phone then? Your funny and clueless.

AnonD-617820

Would be better if it is using Pure Android Stock UI and a 4000 mAh battery

AnonD-441601

For its price its a definitely good phone despite i dont know this brand and its not available in my country.