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hey guys this is Austin is a giant smartphone worth it with a 7-inch display the blue studio 7.0 might look like a tablet but this is a full-fledged smartphone crack open the box and inside you'll find the studio itself along with the screen protector get a little deeper in the unboxing and you'll see the power adapter tool for getting at the sim and micro SD micro USB cable and a pair of headphones take a quick look around and you'll see the studio resembles the Nexus 7 which isn't a bad thing at all even though it's all plastic there's a decent looking metal like finish on the front and around back it's covered in a soft touch dimpled rubber which gives it a nice feel in the hand it's much more manageable than a bigger tablet like an iPad although compared to a normal-sized smartphone not so much as if a 7 inch smartphone wasn't crazy enough the studio only runs $100 because of that you aren't going to find cutting-edge specs but there's not a ton to complain about with a 7h 1024 by 600 screen it doesn't sound like much on paper but the panel itself really isn't bad it has solid color and viewing angles unlike most budget devices that resolution is low though even for smaller phone standards but it is usable what slightly less usable is the size while this is small for a tablet it is enormous for a phone the studio will fit in my pocket but it doesn't leave much room left you really should keep this in a bag the front firing speakers does double as a speakerphone for taking calls on you look totally ridiculous with this thing against your face but it is there that also means you've got HSPA for data it might not be LTE but again for $100 it's rare to find cellular data on a tablet period to get at the SIM slot you'll need to use the tool included with the studio to unscrew a small panel around back here you'll find the slots for the sim and microSD but something important to keep in mind is that it uses an old-school mini sim which are pretty rare these days you'll probably need an adapter you'll also probably want to take advantage of that micro SD card slot - as the included 8 gigs of storage won't get you that far inside it's got a mediatek quad-core cortex a7 CPU along with 1 gigabyte of RAM definitely nothing too impressive but it's decent enough in real use there's a bit of hesitation in basic tasks like scrolling through the UI compared to the latest flagships but it's not a deal-breaker just don't expect it to crush all the latest games software wise we're looking at Android 5.0 while this is going to be pretty out of date these days on the upside it's a clean install of Android with just a few bundled apps most of these are fairly useful like the Amazon suite or easy enough to ignore and of course you've got the Play Store to download whatever you like one area where you can definitely notice the prices with the cameras they're definitely not amazing the front-facing shooter is passable for a quick video chat and while the rear facing five megapixel camera is better it really isn't by much while budget phones have come a long way in the last few years the camera department has definitely been lagging behind there are two ways of looking at the blue studio seven on one hand you've got one of the biggest and weirdest smartphones I've ever come across on the other you're getting a $100 tablet that's not only competitive as a cheap tablet but it also includes not only data but voice and text as well look at it from that perspective and the studio really isn't half bad so what do you guys think let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one