What Smartphone do you use?

[EricHiggin]

thismeintiel said:

EricHiggin said:
BLU Life One X. Have had it for a few years now and while it's nothing special it does the trick. Paid $200 on Amazon brand new shortly after it's release and it's worth every penny. The only issue I have with it is with updates because the battery life can vary greatly. At worst it can be 3 hrs with heavy use and best closer to 6 hours heavy use. In an average use case it just get's me through an entire day with a poor update. Whenever a poor update leads to a much shorter battery life they tend to release another update soon enough to get it to a much more reasonable level, so it's never been a major problem. Otherwise it does everything good enough and has held up.

Ah, a fellow BLUfer. I had the Life One X as well. No complaints other than the battery, like you said. Still wasn't the worst battery I've had on a phone, just kinda in the average zone. Sadly, after about a year or so, the mic died on me.

Then, I got a good deal on an Alcatel Idol 4s, like $220 for the phone and VR headset. Loved the dual speakers and sharp display. But, the battery crapped out on me in a year or so. Got the Vivo + and have been very satisfied with it.

BLU da ba dee da ba daa, lol. Ya the battery is average, it's just the inconsistency with some crappy updates from time to time that I haven't had with previous smartphones. Most of the time it's acceptable though. I've read good things about the Vivo series. It'll be a model I look at when upgrading eventually if it's still around by then. BLU seems to be a pretty decent value brand overall. After getting mine a buddy who goes through phones like socks bought one of the BLU Studio models and was happy enough with it back then that they bought the 2018 Studio Mega when it came out and liked it as well.