NEW BQ AQUARIS M8

BQ announced another member of the M family of devices, about a week ago. It is 8 inches Tablet, that comes to complete the M family called Aquaris M8.

Bq have realised variety of tablets in different sizes but they have never 100% designed in Spain any tablet smaller than 10 inch.
Just to recall Aquaris E10 and last year we were with the M10 (Also as first Ubuntu tablet).
Now we can find the first tablet designed by BQ in a size of 8 inches.

SPECIFICATION
This is a tablet that, as its name suggests, has a screen of 8 inches with HD resolution of 1280 * 800px. Screen is protected by glass with Dragontrail technology.

It is also designed to be tough and allows users to take it wherever they want to because it is dust and scratches resistant due durable materials used for production.

Like its big sister, the Aquaris M10, this new tablet has 0.7W speakers located on the front supported by SMART PA chip ( Intelligent sensor that optimizes the speaker based on the content they reproduce.) for better sound quality in multimedia consumption. 

Aquaris M8 has 16GB of memory expandable via microSD and 2GB of RAM, cameras 2 and 5 Megapixel and a battery of 4050mAh accompanied by MediaTek quad-core processor for energy efficiency. This is surprising choice of SoC since neither BQ nor its users have had good experiences with that brand. BQ informed in the past that they had signed a contract with Qualcomm for use of SoC's, apparently that refers only to smartphones not tablets. I am rather sager to try to see the actual performance of this processor and if BQ will update this product to Android Nougat while Mediatek is known for not providing necessary drivers to do so.

PRICE AND AVAILABILITY
The new BQ Aquaris M8 is now available for purchase through the online store BQ at a price of  179.90€ and at this moment is available only in white. Which translate to around £162.