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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 24 2016, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the cheap-but-not-"cheap" dept.

Tom's Guide reports

Blu R1 HD Review: Great for $50, with a Catch

The good

  • Superaffordable
  • Sleek design
  • Bright [5-inch, 1280 x 720] display
  • Good battery life

The bad

  • Amazon ads are annoying
  • Blurry camera
  • Has trouble with graphic-intensive apps

[...] This budget Android device can be had for as low as $49 unlocked, but that price is only available for Amazon Prime members who are willing to look at all kinds of Amazon offers and promotions every time they open the lock screen.

[...] Packing a quad-core, 1.3-GHz MediaTek 6735 ARM Cortex processor with [1 GB] of RAM, the Blu R1 HD is powerful enough for basic tasks, but not great for resource-intensive apps. It never slowed me down during my day-to-day activities, whether I was checking messages, jumping between apps, or watching videos on YouTube or Amazon Video.

However, it's not ideal for the highest-end games in the Play Store. The gory, graphically intense action of Mortal Kombat X was playable but noticeably chuggy on the R1. The game also took quite a while to load, but, to be fair, I wasn't expecting stellar gaming performance from a $50 device.

[...] If you'd rather not succumb to your Amazon overlords, the ad-free version of the phone starts at $99 for the 8GB/1GB model, and costs $109 for the 16GB/2GB model.

[...] One big caveat: [For] carriers, it only works with AT&T and T-Mobile.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:31PM (#379524)

    Abuelo == Grandpa

    ...and cheap phones for making 911 calls have been a thing for a lot of years. [google.com]

    In fact, I would think that in the typical techie's circle of acquaintances there would be someone with an old phone in a drawer who would let you have that for a song.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:09AM (#379575)

    In case you missed it, Consumer Cellular markets toward seniors specifically. They even sell a device you can wear which will detect when you've fallen and can't get up.