Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “It’s The Best Selling Smartphone On Amazon… But Why?”.
All right, this is a funny looking box. Would you look like what they’re going for something way different here this my friends, the xl4 from blue smartphones? You probably won’t believe it, but this is the best selling unlocked smartphone on amazon. I looked this up and i was like i need to investigate. Why is it this one? What’S so special about it? Of course it has a very attractive price, it’s around 150, so i ordered it up. It just showed up. We got the spec list on the back here on this crazy box 6.2 inch hd plus 19 by nine display a bizarre resolution 720 by 1500 for a 271 ppi, not the highest resolution display.
That’S for sure. Of course you got to give up something to get down to this price point. You see he has a mediatek helio p22 processor in there, 32 gigs of internal memory, 3 gigs of ram 13 plus 2 megapixel main camera 13 megapixel, selfie, camera micro, sd expansion. Of course, 4g lte built in and a 4 000 milliamp hour battery, also a fingerprint scanner. Now that doesn’t sound that special we’re talking about that upcoming redmi note 7: we were talking about the samsung galaxy m stuff, so this segment is heating up, but for now at least in the united states in north america.
This is one of your few options for an unlocked device with relatively modern specs at this particular price. Point: 150 bucks. So, let’s open this up, let’s see what we’re working with android 8.1 oreo as well, if you’re interested, so we are met with the device you can see, it has a notch design. That’S right! You want to get in on the notch party you’re in there for 150 bucks, the fingerprint scanners on the back there i love this spot. I became so accustomed to it. This location for the fingerprint scanners is natural.
It’S right there, it’s convenient, it does the job. You can see the camera unit up in this region here, dual camera setup, i’m wondering if this is the speaker of course, we’ll find out otherwise a pretty familiar setup. You have a power switch volume rocker above that there is a headphone jack. I think this is an imperative feature at the lower price points. Like 150 bucks, you got ta have one of these sim card tray and then that’s about it.
Unfortunately, you’re looking at micro, usb no usb type c love here, 150 bucks. How much complaining do you want to do about that? 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, but nonetheless that’s the status of this one at the moment. Also in the package extras, we have the power brick. We have the micro, usb cable, they’re gon na give you a headset a wired headset. Oh, my goodness, haven’t seen one of those in a box in a while they’re gon na give you some silica gel for jack. That’S been a minute also a sim card tool which gets its own plastic baggie a sticker holy smokes. This is comprehensive, two cases, what that’s crazy.
How is it that that when you spend less you get more, you know no one’s giving you cases on a thousand dollar smartphone they’re like nah, you got enough money, get your own case. 150 bucks they’re, like take a case. It’S on the house. This is just your standard, clear, look and then they also included absolute funky town, as willy do would say holy smokes. Look at that. You rocking that willy do or what oh, they gave you a screen protector as well holy smokes. Look at that.
A tempered glass screen protector as well included in the price. Here’S a phone – let’s get the plastic peeled off here, all right. Let’S boot this up and see what uh blue is all about.
Bold, bold, like us jack, you missed it you’re too late. Oh bit of a laggy animation, bold like us, not terrible so far, i’m just that was a little laggy. It’S not it’s not fast! It’S 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. It’S a relatively stock! Looking experience, it’s installing a bunch of updates right now, but oreo, okay. So it’s on 8.1. A couple of unusual things i mean they put opera on there out of the box and next radio, 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? Blue help data clone, i mean – obviously you probably won’t use most of this stuff, but you’re gon na get a couple of things like it’s, not gon na be a completely stock experience. Obviously, okay, we get that. So this is what it’s gon na look like with the notch off now, since it’s an lcd, you can kind of see where the gray tone is there.
Unfortunately, it pushes down your time and various other icons instead of leaving them up in that extra real estate. So this is not my favorite implementation, but it’s 150 bucks. Remember remember the price point like there. You go oneplus 6t boom, all right, there’s a notch.
Here it’s a small one, but as you can see, you can fill the header with all your various icons that you would normally want to see your battery percentage, your time and so on. So that’s the ideal implementation anyhow that hilly accidentally, not the best location. One thing i will say: it’s not quiet, it’s not quiet, there’s no low end, though i mean it’s not a quality sound, it’s pretty tinny, not that i had uh, not that i had high expectations for it, but nonetheless get the little plant. It’S not the sharpest image to my eyeballs compared to what i’m typically testing here on flagship devices. I mean it’s not in the same territory, not that i expect it to be now.
There is a beauty mode face beauty. It’S always jack’s favorite moment here, smoother whitening, slimming iron larger. Are you ready we’re gon na max them all out? Okay, oh that’s! Oh my god! This is what people are looking for.
This is it. This is a glimpse into the future. What is that? Who is that? Is that a human barely? Do we have some beard hairs? It’S not terrible. You know what it might be better by comparison to other front-facing images than than the rear camera was on the plant. There look guys it’s going to be a little bit of a little bit of everything that you need at 150 unlocked and it’s a thing, that’s readily available and will work on your north american network you’re.
Just gon na slap, your sim in there and you’re gon na live your life and you’re gon na have a headphone, jack you’re gon na be okay, you’re gon na 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 at price points like this, that are probably going to be a step better or a few steps better. In the meantime, a decent package there’s something that will get the job done for you. Looking at this thing, if i had to decide what what the biggest drawback was, it’s probably that processor, you know it’s a bit laggy here and there and possibly the camera.
The display i feel like i could get used to the notch i could live with. It’S got a 4 000 milliamp hour battery. That’S another plus right there.
There are other players in this space, though uh not just internationally, but also domestically. I know motorola they play in this kind of price point as well, but nonetheless this is the champ. This is the one that that won out. This is the current best-selling result on amazon.com. So you, let me know what you think if you had 150 bucks to spend on a smartphone, what would your choice be this or something else, .