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at CES 2015 we brought you a hands-on and first look at a phone by blue now blue is bringing unique unlock phones to the table at a very affordable rate today we're taking a look at a phone that arguably has one of the largest batteries you can get at a whopping five thousand milliamp I'm Kevin the tech ninja and this is a blue studio energy review the blue has a five thousand milliamp battery and you're reminded of that every moment you hold the phone more and more OEMs are looking to push the envelope on how thin you can make a phone and this one does the opposite and surprisingly enough it's refreshing this phone isn't made to turn any heads but it's made for one thing and that's battery life it's a no frills type of phone and you can tell by the body the right side has the chrome textured volume rocker and power button USB port at the bottom the headphone jack which is shifted to the left at the top the removable back houses a 8 megapixel shooter flash speaker grille and the blue logo the materials are mixed between matte plastic and glossy plastic with a little bit of chrome plating have a glossy plastic which is found mostly on the sides of the device is pretty slick the capacitive buttons are located on the chin of the device the Menu button to the left home in the middle and the back arrow is to the right in the hand it feels solid and that's mostly due to the weight the energy display brings you a 5 inch 720p IPS LCD screen this screen can produce up to 16 million colors these colors don't necessarily pop off the panel but provides you enough color to give you a satisfactory image at 291 PPI it provides you with enough sharpness to zoom in on text and also see most details on images the viewing angles are not that bad but it does lose saturation quickly if you are used to high-end phones you notice the resolution is much lower this comes into play when viewing media especially and your authority videos the details that makes HD look fantastic will not be there for normal day-to-day use like web browsing the screen is just fine staying true to its name the energy display is very power friendly even with the brightness cranked all the way up the display seems a bit dim something you really would have noticed unless you're in direct sunlight during this review I was in the scorching Detroit Sun and I had to find shade a few times to even see my overall it's a very powerfully display and this can attribute directly to battery life the star of the show for the energy is obviously it's flopping 5,000 milliamp battery I'm sure adds a significant amount of weight which makes the phone tip the scale at 180 grams as far as the processing power we are looking at the quad-core 1.3 gigahertz cortex a7 which according to arm is the most power efficient multi-core processor for graphics the GPU is a Mali 400 which once again is designed for battery longevity as far as memory the energy brings you 1 gigabyte of RAM 8 gigabytes of internal memory and also up to 64 gigabytes of expandable memory via micro sd under the back cover we have access to our dual SIM card slot and the bottom data port is a USB 2.0 the camera onboard is a modest eight megapixel autofocus shooter with LED flash the front-facing camera comes in at two megapixels if the main objective of the blue studio energy is to provide awesome battery life that has potential to last up to 48 hours on a single charge then the blue has succeeded but if their objective was to provide a great performance at the same time well blue may have fell a bit short I do appreciate that blue is able to pump out devices for such an affordable rate and maybe I need to scale back expectations a bit but the device as a whole is sluggish even with minimal applications installed just using hangouts the keyboard has a hard time keeping up with me since the device has one gigabyte of RAM multitasking is a bit slower than other devices but it does the job one of the main pain points I'm having is pulling down the notification bar there's been many times it just does not register my finger swipes and there really isn't anything I can't do with this phone but just things are a bit slower on a good note the Mali GPU does a great job with most games I throw at it many of the games in the Play Store I ran as any flagship device would the only time I did see slowdown is when playing high-end games like dead trigger or modern combat those games did provide and consistent experience and that experience was slowness during this whole review I load it to power friendly components to achieve better battery life I know you're wondering if these decisions paid off in the long run well I can easily say yes I'm able to get over 48 hours off the charger with over 6 hours of screen on time comfortably that means without making major adjustments to my day-to-day use I'm on Wi-Fi most of the day and I do my fair share of google play music and Spotify I might open the occasional game and even if you don't get 48 hours it's still nice to know that at the end of a long day you're not digging for a charger this is the fresh breath of air for me I really wish omlt leap by making their phones thicker for better battery life but we're in the generation of keeping up with the Joneses and right now the Joneses have the thinnest phone but let's keep things in perspective this is a budget-friendly device that is designed for extreme battery life and it does a mighty fine job at providing that for you the blue studio energy comes with Android 4.4.2 kitkat on the surface appears to be running a stock version of Android but once you slide down the notification bar you can see that it's running custom software on top of Android the notification panel is very similar to standard Android although provides a few tweaks for example to clear all notifications there's an X on the top right corner also there is a tab for settings in the settings tab is where you'll find quick settings there's also a ram widget here that lets you clear off a ram with one press since the device only has one gigabyte of ram you may be visiting this section often when digging into the options you'll run across different settings one of my favorites is the guest mode when guest mode is enabled logs messages photos and other sources of personal information will be hidden to disable this you need to provide a password quick Power Save mode is also found in these settings regardless I don't use quick power-save mode much since the battery life is already stellar but I'm all for any mode that can give you additional battery if needed on most mid-level devices the camera is one thing that usually takes a backseat is this true with the blue well let's take a look at the software first the camera on the blue is very simple the interface is clean with not many options we have the shutter button to the left a toggle from video to photo flash camera selection and a more Settings button images produced by the blue are very flat they lack a lot of color this wall as seen in this image actually has a deeper color than what's being shown many images appear to be overexposed and lack dynamic range I took this phone to a restaurant and I attempted to take a picture of this drink over 10 times and this is the best image I came up with and still it's not in focus the selfie camera is only 2 megapixels and as expected the images look really bad this was outside in good lighting so once I took the front-facing camera indoors the images remained the same overexposed in some areas lack of color and overall just grainy the energy is packed with shooting modes within the settings the gesture based shots are pretty cool you can set it up to take an image when you smile or when you make a peace sign also the usual suspects are found in the camera software like panorama HDR and sport mode however the quantity of shooting modes cannot hide the poor quality of the images and there it is guys that was the review of the blue Studio energy as I mentioned before this phone is made for extreme battery life and it succeeds at that goal plus the phone is a hundred and fifty US dollars so at that price it's a definite steal especially for the long battery make sure you liked the video subscribe to this channel leave a comment down below and do what you guys love to do anyways and remember guys we are your source for all things Android take care guys