The Allview Viva Q8 tablet is a Romanian rebranded version of the Onda V818 Mini Chinese tablet. The Q8 model goes for $240 locally and it’s an affordable quad core slate with a 7.9 inch display. This model was launched in July and it’s now available for our tests.

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The device looks like the iPad Mini from the front and in case you’re wondering, Allview has launched a new series of products called Viva, described as a bunch of slim, fast and innovative slates. The device you see here measures 7.5 mm in thickness, weighs 357 grams and packs an IPS LCD 7.9 inch screen with 4:3 aspect ratio and 1024 x 768 pixel resolution.

We’ve got Android 4.2 as the OS and the device relies on a Cortex A7 quad core 1 GHz processor. We’ve got an 8 core Power VR SGX544 MP2 GPU on board and 8 GB of storage, as well as 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and a microSD card slot with support for 32 GB of extra memory. Allview Viva Q8 pack an aluminum case, a 5 megapixel camera with Full HD video capture and it relies on a 4000 mAh battery.

More details will be available soon.