BLU Studio 6.0 HD Smartphone - GSM Unlocked - Black

OK so after having this phone for 11 days now I figured I should get around to making an honest review. To give some context I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S4, my wife has a Nexus 5, my older daughter has an IPhone, and my younger daughter has a Blu Studio 5.0 II (love that phone) I had been researching this phone since it was announced. So I was very excited to get it 2 days after ordering it via Amazon prime for only $218 shipped. When I got the phone I was a little scared because I could not get it to turn on right away as almost all other phones had been able to do out of the box. So I threw it on the charger for an hour and viola it boots right up... Just a dead battery, no big deal. (This may be what was wrong for others who gave this phone a bad review)So onto the phone, WOW, what a display! It is amazing... Very bright and the colors seem spot on to me. It is definitely brighter than the super AMOLED screen on the Samsung Galaxy S4. At the time KitKat was not yet available so after booting up I had to install the update to get the Google services to work. No big deal again... Took less than 10 minutes. Now that the KitKat OS update is available (yay!) This may be a moot point. Speaking of KitKat it became available a few days later. That install went very smooth... A small side note a SD card is required to install KitKat.I would assume everyone who buys this phone will increase the factory 4 gig storage with a new SD card anyway.Kitkat seems very, very good on this phone without any bugs *see update at end of review* that I have seen unlike when I upgraded to KitKat on my Galaxy S4... I had a problem with my phone not wanting to wake up, hense my looking for a new phone.I love the near-stock Android experience that Blu puts on their phone. It's not all stuffed with bloat like Samsung's Touch Wiz.It's been a year and a half and I am still paying over $100 a month for my subsidised Galaxy S4 with 4 gigs of data a month through At&t. I can't wait until my contract is up with them... I will never do a subsidised contract phone again. This $218 phone with a prepaid service like Straight Talk at $45 a month is unbeatable.I was able to take the At&t micro Sim card from the S4 and with the help of an adapter kit from Amazon put it in the Blu 6.0 HD(KAISI 4 in 1 Sim Card Converter Adapter Kit $4.15)The phone set itself up to work automatically on At&t. I did not have to set or change any of the APN settings.Calls are about average, no complaints.The touch screen is not a sensitive as my S4 but only very slightly less. 11 days later I really don't notice any sensitivity issues.The phone is very responsive with very little lag. YouTube and Netflix videos play well on both WiFi and the HDSPA 21 mb data network. I notice a few more seconds of buffering for videos over my S4 on the 4g LTE network but nothing worth worrying about. I did notice sometimes the audio would get a touch out of sync with video on the YouTube app but a quick backup of a few seconds on the scroll bar fixed that when it was a problem. (Update 7/26/14 This appears fixed with the latest OTA update) Otherwise video is superb on this phone as are pictures. I don't see much of a need for these super hi definition phones. The 720 x 1280 245 PPI on the Blu 6.0 is just fine for my eyes.The speaker is about average for a general smart phone... Just fine for videos and music.The headphone jack works well with all the headphones and ear buds I have tried with it.The camera is surprisingly good of course not a good as the Samsung S4 or IPhone but does great for what I need. The front camera isn't too bad either. I will try to get some comparison photos taken with the Blue 6.0, the Galaxy S4 and the Nexus 5. Look for those on the Amazon owner-submitted pictures.The 3000 mAH battery is pretty darn good. Getting me through most of my day. I may have to throw it on the charger towards end of the night as I use it constantly throughout the day. (my 10.1" tablet gets used a lot less now that I have this phablet)The USB charging socket at the top of the device take a little getting used-to but I am fine with it now.As far as GPS goes it does work.... BUT I did notice that the GPS sometimes had me appear as if I was not properly centered on the road at all time... not sure what that was about but it was putting me off by maybe 50 to a hundred feet or so but would correct itself... I was able to successfully navigate all three of times I used the GPS.... Once with no problems and the other 2 times it showed my truck driving "next" to the road sometimes. Hopefully Blu will fix this issue with an update.(Update 7/26/14 this appears to be fixed with the latest OTA update... Much better now)As far a size goes it is big but I am still able to fit it in my front pocket no problem. I was able to fix my Galaxy S4 from not being able to boot up with a reset but I still find myself using the Blu 6.0 HD over the S4 because of the big beautiful screen. Sorry Samsung the S4 seems to be collecting a lot of dust lately.The con's I see for this phone are lack of cases and availability of hardened "gorilla" type glass protectors. (The supplied case works great btw.) Also I miss the TV remote capability of the S4 and the wireless Qi charging of the Nexus 5 but for only $218 shipped via Amazon Prime this unlocked phone can't be beat. I give it 5 stars. Samsung and Apple can keep all their gimmicky smart scrolls and finger print scanners... This phone does 99% of what I need it to do and at cost less than 1/3 of the other flagships. Buy one... You won't be disappointed!*Update July 27 2014*Blu released an update to the KitKat release that fixed a few issues that popped up. Some I found are as follows:Stock Android messaging app Hangouts would fail and crash when sending a text. This is now fixed. I had heard it also could not send pics via text on WiFi... This is now fixed too.I heart radio would crash upon opening. This is now fixed.The stock YouTube app would freeze and audio would get out of sync on both data and WiFi. This seems better now. I do most of my You Tube watching through the chrome browser. Perfect.The GPS had issues showing accurate location. This Noe seems better. GPS works pretty well now.Any other findings I will post here.If anyone knows of a Blu Studio 6.0 HD forum maybe you can post it here in the comments section.

I've had this phone for about a month now and I must say, I'm impressed. I use both sim slots, one for T-Mobile (which doesn't work so well) and Straighttalk, which is excellent. I took the 4G/LTE sim card out of my Nexus 5 and installed it in this phone along with a straighttalk card. The T-mobile card is 4G/LTE but only does 2G in this phone but the straightalk card does 4G. No problem, I just set the straighttalk card to be the default data card and use the T-mobile card for incoming calls to the T-mobile phone number. I bought this phone primarily for its ability to act as a phablet and it excels at that. I installed a 32g card and downloaded some documents and spreadsheets I sometimes have to reference and show to to other people and with its large screen its easy to read. There are many data editing programs available to download from the google store and they all work well. The screen protector was useless, way too many bubbles and its not like I'd never put one on before. I've never taken any pictures nor am I likely to so I can't comment on the camera. I would suggest you download the app apps2sd and move as many as you can to the SD card (assuming you install one) to free up space, they run just fine from there. All in all, when you compare it to the other large screen phones and take into account the hundreds of dollars less in cost, it can't be beat. Just remember, memory is adequate but not enough to run memory intensive apps, like games, and installed storage is very low so you shouldn't buy it unless you're going to buy and install an SD card.

This phone works just like any expensive smart android phones out there but with a big BUT:1. Its touch screen is not as super sensitive which means I have to poke the screen hard to open an app or type a message. This frustrates me.2. The screen freezes on a regular basis and I have to reboot or power off and on the phone frequently to "un-freeze" it.3. It gets hot and just drain the battery even I leave it idle and not in use. Although this has happened only six times or so for the past six months I owned this phone, still, it is annoying and frustrating to have a dead phone when you most need it.4. I constantly check the phone's time zone is correctly set to mountain time (I live in Denver, CO) so my time is correct. For some reason it would switch to eastern time on it's own. This happens when I talk on the phone longer than 30 mins. One time I put it on speaker mode when I was on it and really saw the screen switching on its own to date & time setting display from my phone contact photo display while it was on the calling mode. It was weird. On two occasions I failed to check the time zone and I got screwed up with the local time.5. For the past six months that I have been using this, it notified me of wireless update and I was able to do the updates completely twice. The third time it notified me of wireless update and I clicked "update", it gave me a message "sorry lost or no connection" even when my wireless signal is full bar and my wifi connection was strong and it got a 100% battery. So I was not really able to do the latest update. This "sorry lost or no connection" message has been happening 3 times now every time it notifies me of wireless update and when I attempted to do the update.6. This phone is now acting crazy which drives me nuts. There are times that apps are just popping up after one another even if I did not click on them. I swear! And this is a frequent occurrence. For example this has happened for real: I would click on the FB app to check my fb and it would open up and then suddenly my yahoo mail is opening up on top my fb (which I did not click on it at all), followed by my gmail inbox, pandora and the fitbit apps and then freeze. And I'm like, what the hell I did not do that! Ugh, very frustrating!7. The first thing I said about this phone is that the touch screen is not as super sensitive like the expensive phones (to be specific, I compared it to my old samsung note 3 which was stolen) which frustrates me endlessly. On opposite to that, the back of the phone however is overly sensitive because before I put my phone down, it is always in the "home screen" mode but every time, I say, every time I put my phone down, it switches to the apps screen or whatever screen it opens up to once the back of the phone touches a surface when I put it down. So at times when I put my phone in my pocket or purse I would not be aware that an app is running which also cause hotness and drains the battery eventually.All in all, I would say that the way the phone is acting, it is not reliable to me. I needed a phone that functions well and I can rely with it at all times. I guess it's time for me to get a new reliable phone.REVIEW UPDATESo today, a week or so after I put my first review above, I received a notification of a "wireless update" (please refer to #5 above which was a problem I had with this phone before) which I pushed my phone to have the update by clicking "Retry" twice. Then this phone eventually was able to have the "latest" wireless update. The update took a while, about 30 - 50 mins or so. When the update was done, it had a new designed homescreen which by the way I liked. But the problem is, I lost my wireless network connection! Every thing was cool after the update except it will not get a wireless network connection so my phone was in emergency mode. I did some trouble-shooting by rebooting; taking off and putting back the sim card; turning off my wifi and totally powered off the phone and turning it on again. It did not work!. I had to call my mobile provider and asked their help in figuring out what's going on with my phone. Although they don't support the device (they are not using any BLU devices) they were helpful and tried to trouble-shoot too by resetting my sim card and what not. Now the phone would not read any sim card I put in it. It would say "NO SIM CARD --EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY" which is full of BS!!! Now I can't totally use this phone anymore. My advice to BLU phone users, IGNORE any wireless update notification. Although the phone was already crappy before the last update at least it was working. I thought the update will make it better that's why I did it, now it renders the phone useless!!!

Todo bien lo único que era desbloqueado para Mexico solamente. Y yo vivo en Argentina. Valdría una aclaración de la limitación de un teléfono desbloqueado para no tener que perder tiempo.

Very slim. Works great. Was a replacement for my wife's Iphone. Battery life on the lower side, but it's what you expect when you have a 6 inch screen on this slim of a phone. Great specs for the price. I'll definately get a Blu phone when my LG finally gives in (which I think is going to be soon).

This phone is incredible for the price, fast sleek, and pretty powerful for just about anything you'd want to do. The battery life is superb; I usually get two days charge even with regular use, and a day and a half with heavy use. The earbuds that come with it are good quality, and the case is good for gripping because the back of the phone is slippery without it. However, the screen gets small scratches pretty easily, so i'd recommend putting on the screen protector. All around solid phone, no complaints here.

My hubby LOVES his new 6.0 HD phone!!! It works really well. BLU is a very good brand and would highly recommend it!!! I got a nice blue 4.5 HD BLU as well and I LOVE mine!!!! Very fast shipping and got these 2 items at a great price!!! A++++

I bought this in February 2016 and in the last 30 days, the battery had gone completely dead overnight from fully charged after I have shut the phone off at night. In the morning, when I tried to turn it on, it would not turn on. I had to plug the charger in for almost an hour before the phone would turn on. I have no idea why it did that, but I am not going to keep a phone that discharges completely like that. I have just returned the phone to Amazon.I had bought two other BLU phones for my family members and they work well, no problems.