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So this is the best selling smartphone on Amazon currently.
Blu Vivo XL4 (USA Link) - https://amzn.to/2RVghJL
Blu Vivo XL4 (International) - http://geni.us/DEpB44
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Alright, this is a funny looking box
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Would you look like what? They're going for something way different here. This, my friends, the XL4 from Blue Smartphones
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You probably won't believe it, but this is the best selling unlocked smartphone on Amazon
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I looked this up and I was like, I need to investigate. Why is it this one
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What's so special about it? Of course, it has a very attractive price
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It's around $150. So I ordered it up. It just showed up
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You've got the spec list on the back here on this crazy box. 6.2-inch HD+, 19x9 display
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A bizarre resolution, 720x1500 for a 271 PPI. Not the highest resolution display, that's for sure
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Of course, you've got to give up something to get down to this price point. You can see it has a MediaTek Helio P22 processor in there
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32 gigs of internal memory, 3 gigs of RAM, 13 plus 2 megapixel
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main camera 13 megapixel selfie camera micro sd expansion of course 4g lte built in and a 4000
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milliamp hour battery also a fingerprint scanner now that doesn't sound that special we're talking
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about that upcoming redmi note 7 we're talking about the samsung galaxy m stuff so this segment
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is heating up but for now at least in the united states in north america this is one of your few
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options for an unlocked device with relatively modern specs at this particular price point
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150 bucks. So let's open this up. Let's see what we're working with. Android 8.1 Oreo as well
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if you're interested. So we are met with the device. You can see it has a notch design. That's
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right. You want to get in on the notch party. You're in there for 150 bucks. The fingerprint
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The fingerprint scanner is on the back there. I love this spot. I became so accustomed to it
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This location for the fingerprint scanner is just natural. It's right there. It's convenient
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It does the job. You can see the camera unit up in this region here, dual camera setup I wondering if this is the speaker Of course we find out Otherwise a pretty familiar setup You have a power switch volume rocker above that There is a headphone
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jack. I think this is an imperative feature at the lower price points, like $150. You gotta have
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one of these. SIM card tray, and then that's about it. Unfortunately, you're looking at micro USB
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No USB Type-C love here. $150. How much complaining do you want to do about that
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I guess, like I said, if you're looking at one of those new Redmi device, maybe you want to do a lot of complaining
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But nonetheless, that's the status of this one at the moment. Also in the package, extras
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We have the power brick. We have the micro USB cable. They're going to give you a headset, a wired headset
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Oh my goodness. Haven't seen one of those in a box in a while. They're going to give you some silica gel for Jack
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That's been a minute. Also, a SIM card tool, which gets its own plastic baggie
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A sticker. Holy smokes. This is comprehensive. Two cases. What? That's crazy
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How is it that when you spend less, you get more? You know, no one's giving you cases on a $1,000 smartphone
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They're like, nah, you've got enough money. Get your own case. $150, they're like, take a case
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It's on the house. This is just your standard, clear look. and then they also included absolute funky town
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as Willie Doo would say. Holy smokes, look at that. You rocking that, Willie Doo, or what
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Oh, they gave you a screen protector as well. Holy smokes, look at that
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A tempered glass screen protector as well, included in the price. Here's a phone, let's get the plastic peeled off here
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All right, let's boot this up and see what blue is all about. Bold, bold like us, Jack
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You missed it. You're too late. Oh. Bit of a laggy animation
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Bold. Like us. Not terrible. So far, I'm just, that was a little laggy
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It not it not fast It not super snappy but the look of it the display is a bit vibrant If you if you get real close you can tell I guess you can see some pixels Yeah you can But I mean look at the package
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It's a relatively stock-looking experience. It's installing a bunch of updates right now
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But, Oreo, okay, so it's on 8.1. A couple of unusual things
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I mean, they put Opera on there out of the box. And Next Radio
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But how does that compare to Bloat on other devices? it's not terrible wait a minute they put prime video what else did they put on here by default
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blue help data clone i mean obviously you probably won't use most of this stuff but you're going to
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get a couple of things like it's not going to be a completely stock experience obviously okay we get
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that so this is what it's going to look like with the notch off now since it's an lcd you can kind
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to see where the gray tone is there unfortunately it pushes down your time and various other icons
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instead of leaving them up in that extra real estate so this is not my favorite implementation
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but it's 150 bucks remember remember the price point like there you go one plus six t boom
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all right there's a notch here it's a small one but as you can see you can fill the header with
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all your various icons that you would normally want to see your battery percentage your time
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and so on so that's the ideal implementation anyhow has big plans for 2019 that hilly right
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there triple cameras on the iphone triple camera devices out there when i saw the original render
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There it is. You can cover that accidentally. Not the best location
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One thing I will say, it's not quiet. It's not quiet. There's no low end though
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I mean, it's not a quality sound. It's pretty tinny. Not that I had high expectations for it
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but nonetheless, get the little plant. It not the sharpest image To my eyeballs compared to what I typically testing here on flagship devices
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I mean, it's not in the same territory. Not that I expect it to be. Now, there is a beauty mode
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Face beauty. It's always Jack's favorite moment here. Smoother, whitening, slimming, eye enlarger
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Are you ready? We're gonna max them all out, okay? Oh, that's... Oh, my God
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This is what people are looking for. This is it. This is a glimpse into the future
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What is that? Who is that? Is that a human? Barely. Do we have some beard hairs
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It's not terrible. You know what? It might be better by comparison to other front-facing images than the rear camera was on the plant there
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Look, guys. It's going to be a little bit of everything that you need at $150 unlocked
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And it's a thing that's readily available and will work on your North American network
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You're just going to slap your SIM in there and you're going to live your life. And you're going to have a headphone jack
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You're going to be okay. You're going to be all right. The hard thing here is to compare this to the type of stuff we're seeing coming out in those emerging markets
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at price points like this that are probably going to be a step better or a few steps better
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In the meantime, a decent package. Something that'll get the job done for you
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Looking at this thing, if I had to decide what the biggest drawback was
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it's probably that processor. You know, it's a bit laggy here and there
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And possibly the camera. The display I feel like I could get used to. The notch I could live with
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It's got a 4,000 mAh battery. That's another plus right there. There are other players in this space though
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not just internationally but also domestically. I know Motorola, they play in this kind of price point as well
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But nonetheless, this is the champ. This is the one that won out. This is the current best-selling result on Amazon.com
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So you let me know what you think. If you had $150 to spend on a smartphone
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what would your choice be? This or something else
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