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if you're shopping for a blue smartphone but you want the best on a very small budget odds are you'll gravitate toward the life one or life one XL i'm michael fisher with pocket now at CES 2015 with a quick look at these just announced smartphones as you might have divined from the naming conventions here the blue life one and life one XL are actually just variations on the same design with a 5 or 5.5 inch IPS display depending on what you're looking for regardless of size each one tops out at 720p the industrial design is straight forward with restrained metallic accents Gorilla Glass 3 and several color options including a grey sandstone that's essentially lifted directly from the 1 plus 1 in terms of look and feel and it feels really good in large part what makes the life 1 a flagship offering is Blues use of a Snapdragon processor granted it's a Snapdragon 410 and it's only backed up by a gig of ram but at 64-bit and allows for goodies like LTE not available on the rest of the media tech powered lineup there's also a 13 megapixel primary camera a 5-megapixel selfie shooter microSD expansion and the clever software skin here isn't just a bald-faced lie yes this is 4.4 kitkat but blue tells us the life one will get lollipop at some point how well all this works together is an open question as is how well the battery will hold up to daily use it's a choice between 24 twenty and twenty eight twenty milliamp hours depending on device and those are questions we'll try to answer if and when we give it a full review in keeping with blues' budget targeting the Blu live one and one XL are due to go on sale on Amazon in March for a very low 179 and $1.99 unlocked there's still more from CES 2015 in Las Vegas and we're bringing all the mobile apps to you at pocketnow.com and here on youtube so be sure to subscribe and follow the guys on the ground for Jaime Rivera Hayato Houston and all of pocket now I'm Michael Fisher we'll see you next time