Gadgetory

all right this is a funny-looking box would you look like what they're going for something way different here this my friends the xl4 from blue smartphones you probably won't believe it but this is the best-selling unlocked smartphone on Amazon I looked this up and I was like I need to investigate why is it this one what's so special about it of course it has a very attractive price it's around one hundred and fifty dollars so I ordered it up it just showed up I've got the spec list on the back here on this crazy box 6.2 inch HD plus nineteen by nine display a bizarre resolution 720 by 1500 for a 271 PPI not the highest resolution display that's for sure of course you got to give up something to get down to this price point you see as a mediatek helio p22 processor in there 32 gigs of internal memory three gigs of ram 13 plus 2 megapixel main camera 13 megapixel selfie camera microSD expansion of course 4G LTE built in and a four thousand milliamp hour battery also a fingerprint scanner now that doesn't sound that special we're talking about that upcoming redmi note 7 we were talking about the Samsung Galaxy M stuff so this segment is heating up but for now at least in the United States in North America this is one of your few options for an unlocked device with relatively modern specs at this particular price point hundred fifty bucks so let's open this up let's see what we're working with Android 8.1 Oreo as well if you're interested so we are met with the device you can see it has a notch design that's right you want to get in on the knotch party you're in there for 150 bucks the fingerprint scanner is on the back there I love this spot I became so accustomed to it this location for the fingerprint scanners is natural it's right there it's convenient it does the job you can see the camera unit up in this region here dual camera setup I'm wondering if this is the speaker of course we'll find out otherwise a pretty familiar setup you have a power switch volume rocker above that there is a headphone jack I think this is an imperative feature at the lower price points like 150 bucks you gotta have one of these SIM card tray and then that's about it unfortunately you're looking at micro USB no USB type-c love here 150 bucks how much complaining do you want to do about that I guess like I said if you're looking at one of those new red-meat device maybe you want to do a lot of complaining but nonetheless that's the status of this one at the moment also in the package extras we have the power brick we have the micro USB cable they're gonna give you a headset a wired headset oh my goodness I haven't seen one of those in a box in a while they're gonna give you some silica gel for Jack that's been a minute also a SIM card tool which gets its own plastic baggie a sticker holy smokes this is comprehensive two cases what that's crazy how is it that's that when you spend less you get more you know you know one give me cases on a thousand dollar smartphone they're like now you've got enough money get your own case hundred fifty bucks they're like take the case it's on the house this is just your standard clear look and then they also included absolute Funkytown as Willy do would say holy smokes look at that you rockin that when we do or what oh they give your screen protector as well holy smokes look at that a tempered glass screen protector as well included in the price here's a phone let's get the plastic peeled off here all right let's boot this up and see what blue is all about bold bold like us Jack you missed it you're too late Oh bit of a laggy animation bolt like us not terrible so far I'm just that was a little laggy it's not it's not fast it's not super snappy but the look of it the display is a bit vibrant if you if you get real close you can tell I guess you can see some pixels yeah you can but I mean look at the package it's a relatively stock looking experience it's installing a bunch of updates right now but or you know okay so it's on 8.1 a couple of unusual things I mean they put opera on there out of the box and next radio but how does that compare to bloat on other devices it's not terrible wait a minute they put prime video what else did they put on here by default blue help data clone I mean obviously you probably won't use most of this stuff but you're gonna get a couple of things like it's not gonna be a completely stock experience obviously okay we get that so this is what its gonna look like with the notch off now since it's an LCD you can kinda see where the gray tone is there unfortunately it pushes down your time and various other icons instead of leaving them up in that extra real estate so this is not my favorite implementation but it's 150 bucks remember remember the price point like there you go one plus 60 boom alright there's a notch here it's a small one but as you can see you can fill the header with all your various icons that you would normally want to see your battery percentage your time and so on so that's the ideal implementation anyhow that Haley there it is you can cover that accidentally not the best location one thing I will say there's no low end though I mean it's not a quality sound it's pretty tinny not that I had not that I had high expectations for it but nonetheless get the little plant it's not the sharpest image to my eyeballs compared to what I'm typically testing here on flagship devices I mean it's not in the same territory not that I expect it to be now there is a beauty mode face Beauty so he's Jack's favorite moment here smoother whitening slimming eye enlarger are you ready we're gonna max them all out okay oh that's oh my god this is what people are looking for this is it this is a glimpse into the future what is that who is that is that a human barely do we have some beard hairs it's not terrible you know what but it might be better by comparison to other front-facing images then then the rear camera was on the plant there look guys it's gonna be a little bit of a little bit of everything that you need at a hundred and fifty unlock then it's a thing that's readily available and we'll work on your North American Network you're just gonna slap your sim in there and you're gonna live your life and you're gonna have a headphone jack you're gonna be okay you're gonna be alright the hard thing here is to compare this to the type of stuff we're seeing coming out in those emerging markets and price points like this that are probably gonna be a step better or a few steps better in the meantime a decent package there's something that'll get the job done for you looking at this thing if I had to decide what what the biggest drawback was it's probably that processor you know it's a bit laggy here and there and possibly the camera the display I feel like I could get used to the notch I could live where it's got a four thousand milliamp hour battery that's another plus right there there are other players in this space though not just internationally but also domestically I know Motorola they play in this kind of price point as well but nonetheless this is the champ this is the one that that one out this is the current best selling result on amazon.com so you let me know what you think if you had one hundred and fifty bucks to spend on a smartphone what would your choice be this or something else