Who Repairs The Blu Life X3 Phone In Usa

Blu'southward latest unlocked smartphone for the U.S. market place is the Life One X3. It boasts a big screen, humongous bombardment, and stock Android. Here is Phone Scoop's full review.

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The Blu Life I X3 is an affordable, unlocked Android handset with one of the biggest batteries in the market. If battery life is your height priority, the Life 1 X3 and its incredible power supply may fit your needs.

Body

The X3 is a large black slab. Information technology'due south formed by a mix of plastic, metallic, and glass. The forepart features curved-edge glass that's fitted into a polycarbonate frame. The frame has beveled edges that are painted with a faux dark chrome finish to give it the expect of polished metal. A large metal plate covers most of the telephone's rear surface. The telephone doesn't exercise much to stand out and yet there's zippo objectionable about its looks.

It's a large'un. The X3 stands more than than half dozen inches alpine and sits about 3 inches wide. Yous have to similar big phones in guild to similar the X3. People with small easily may find it too big. The curved shape of the rear panel and rounded side edges do assist a chip when it comes to in-hand comfort. The phone is weighty; y'all'll know it's in your pocket as you move around. I didn't encounter problem stuffing it into pockets.

I X3

Materials and industry are decent. I didn't run across whatever gaps or unevenness in the seams. The metal rear gives the telephone a much-needed boost in the perceived quality department. Of notation, the X3 is not waterproof, nor is it designed to be particularly rugged.

With little unique almost the design, the X3's confront could easily get lost in a oversupply. The brow and chin are somewhat thick, as the phone makes use of the 16:ix aspect ratio for the screen. A capacitive home button is tucked into the mentum. It's indented a flake, which makes it piece of cake to find and employ. Capacitive buttons flank the habitation push. With no backlight and no physical shape, these keys are a pain to locate consistently. (No backlight, Blu, seriously?) Small dots painted on the glass signify their location, only even these are difficult to spot. Blu doesn't even clue you in onto which button manages which function.

Fingerprint Reader

The tray for memory and SIM cards pops out easily with a tool or paperclip. The tray accommodates a microSD storage card and up to two SIM cards at the same fourth dimension. (Often, phones that support two SIM cards crave you to give up apply of the retentiveness card spot; the One X3 doesn't.) That makes it more than flexible than many dual-SIM phones.

Similar many phones, the X3's screen lock push button and book toggle are placed on the right border. The lock button has a great profile and excellent travel and feedback. Finding and using it is a breeze. I capeesh the large profile of the volume toggle, besides, though travel and feedback aren't quite as satisfying.

Blu stuck a iii.5mm headphone jack on the top edge of the phone. The visitor opted for a microUSB port (rather than USB-C) and positioned information technology on the bottom edge.

The black paint that covers the rear panel has a matte finish that shows just a affect of grain. The metal panel skins near 85% of the rear surface. Horizontal lines run from side-to-side well-nigh the top and bottom edges that separate the metal panel from the plastic ends where the antennas prevarication. This is a common blueprint for Blu. The camera module protrudes from the surface just a wee bit.

Camera Module

The Blu Life One X3 doesn't trailblaze whatsoever new paths in terms of design or features, but it is a functional piece of hardware that works well plenty.

Profile

Screen

The One X3 has a 5.5-inch full HD brandish, a adequately typical size/resolution for flagship phones as recently equally ii years ago. It relies on the older 16:ix attribute ratio and is anything but bezelless. An LCD panel provides the lite. The pixel density is tight enough that you won't spot individual pixels; everything on the screen looks sharp and make clean. Brightness is adequate virtually of the fourth dimension. The screen is hard to run across exterior, due to a mixture of glare, fingerprint grime (no oleophobic blanket!) and brightness. You need to creepo it up to employ the X3 exterior. Viewing angles are not adept. There'south no blue shift, merely the loss of light is severe. Given the price point of the phone, information technology's a decent screen.

Blu tossed in its MiraVision feature for skillful measure. This tool lets you tweak the colour profile. In that location are 2 presets — standard and vivid — or you tin can opt to manage all the settings manually. The brilliant option, which boosts colors but a petty, looked best to my eyes.

MiraVision

Signal

Blu ensured the One X3 is compatible with the cadre LTE frequencies used by AT&T and T-Mobile. You'll notice support for Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 17, and 28 on board. Bands 2, 4, and 12 are what's needed for the device to connect to AT&T and T-Mobile with basic service. (Both carriers operate additional bands, and phones that support them enjoy faster data and less network congestion.) Equally tested on both networks, the One X3 did merely okay.

The phone managed to patch calls through on the outset or 2nd try. It dropped one telephone call on each network when tested at highway speeds. Poor network conditions challenged the Ane X3 a chip more than they would carrier-branded phones, but information technology managed to practice about equally well as other unlocked phones in this price category.

Information speeds were nil to write domicile about. Maximum information rates were in the low teens, which is most i-3rd, to ane-fourth as quick as today'south superlative handsets. The X3 tin handle basic browsing and social networking, but streaming media over cellular oft gave it a case of the stutters. Support for more than LTE would likely have helped hither.

Sound

I've heard much better vocalism phones in my twenty-four hour period. Phone calls taken through the earpiece are acceptable at best. The earpiece doesn't produce quite enough book even when set all the way up. If you exercise crank information technology, it distorts to the point of making phone calls painful.

The speakerphone is worse. It'southward a scratchy disaster. Voices come through every bit garbled junk. You may be able to accept a regular telephone call in a quiet space, simply the speakerphone is close to useless pretty much anywhere in that location's background dissonance.

Ringers and alerts did their job and caught my ear most of the time. The vibrate alert is decent.

Battery

At 5,000mAh, the One X3's battery is larger than nearly all others in the market. It'south a wonder, so, that information technology doesn't quite alive upwardly to expectations. I went into testing the X3 fully assertive the phone would exist capable of pushing through ii full days of employ. Instead, the telephone gave upwards the ghost at about the 24-hr mark.

After charging overnight, I unplugged the phone at breakfast and then tested it for a total solar day with all the radios on and the screen set to 50% brightness. At bedtime, the phone had about 40% bombardment life. Left unplugged, the battery dropped 25% overnight despite the fact that the phone wasn't used at all during that period. I woke up to encounter the bombardment at xv%, which lasted a couple of hours earlier dying completely.

Stunningly, you lot will probably need to charge this phone each night. I don't think most people are in danger of running out of ability before the end of a single day, but don't await much more than that.

The phone includes the base system-level battery management tool. Y'all may need it. Worse, the telephone doesn't support rapid charging and takes forever (we're talking hours) to fully recharge the battery.

Battery

Bluetooth, GPS, NFC, WiFi

The phone'south Bluetooth radio handled connections well. The phone paired hands with headphones and speakers and PCs. Calls completed via Bluetooth headsets were pretty bad, though music routed to Bluetooth speakers was acceptable.

Every bit a navigation tool, the 1 X3 performed on par with other unlocked handsets. The GPS radio pinpointed me in several seconds to inside about 25 feet most of the time. It coordinated with Google Maps and worked fine when put to use for point-to-point directions. Maps was sometimes a fiddling tedious during navigation.

The X3'southward WiFi radio did well.

This phone does non have NFC.

About the author, Eric M. Zeman:

Eric has been covering the mobile telecommunications manufacture for 17 years at diverse print and online publications. He studied at Rutgers Newark and University of Kentucky, and has a caste in writing. He likes playing guitar, attending concerts, listening to music, and driving sports cars.

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