Top Pick — discover the BLU Z5 -GSM Unlocked Dual Sim -Black by BLU, built for performance and designed for life in the United States.
The BLU Z5 -GSM Unlocked Dual Sim -Black by BLU combines reliability, modern design, and user-focused engineering. Perfect for everyday use, it delivers dependable results for American customers who value comfort.
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$22.99
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MAIKEL BULLAIN –
NOT GOOD , IT WILL NOT CHARGE
OhWerd –
I bought this phone as an additional one as I wanted to keep my international number active to receive OTP, and it works great for the purpose. It can read sim from other country and work with local network.
Phone came with some default language I dont understand but it was easy to switch to English.
By going to Phone setting(based on image-spanner and bolts and option 2 from there) This would be challenging for most as default language is not english for this phone.
Writing this review on 3rd day of use, still battery lasts and showing more but I am not using it for phone calls/just SMS.
It has VGA camera, dual sim, external memory card slots(none of them i used yet).
Phone is must buy for the price and if looking for calling/SMS purpose at this time.
Michael –
And you get cheap quality
Zach S. –
They must have sold millions of these various “Zoey” (and related Tank/Jenny) models. But they won’t make a 4g version.
The camera is very weak, but it’s there if you only want it for when you absolutely must text a picture of something. Everything else is OK or good for a cheapo phone. The physical build is better than a lot of other brands. The buttons feel like a higher-end phone. The FM radio doesn’t harass you for headphones (built in antenna). The radio and MP3 player can run in the background. They don’t tell you, but the batteries in most models are standard BL-4C or BL-5C types and cheap to get spares if you need to extend the already good battery life. It does have a VERY basic web browser, all you need to check news or google stuff.
BUT… you can’t hardly use these anywhere now. And either Blu or whatever mystery factory they use refuses to make the same popular phone compatible with current technology. Why? Who knows. Maybe someone in the supply chain is trying to get fired. A competing brand is selling a 4g flip phone of absolutely abysmal quality for triple the price because there is no competition.
Carolyn L. Austin –
It’s a cool little basic phone. But, with a tmobile SIM card this phone has almost no connectivity anywhere my iPhone has it on the same network.
Naval –
Battery life is awesome.. can use up to 2 days without charging
Kai Sheppard –
This is perfect phone for it’s simple usage.
Shantel baugh –
After receiving the phone, attempted to set it up with Tello, as that was a suggested “frequently bought together” pay-as-you-go phone service. Unfortunately, Tello said the phone was not compatible with their service. I saw that many reviews said it worked with T-Mobile, so I checked on their site, they also said it was not compatible. I then checked AT&T, Verizon, StraightTalk, and just about every other carrier I could find that had a way to verify coverage via IMEI, and every single one of them said it was not compatible. Returned the phone, but I’m still out $12 from setting up a Tello account before verifying the IMEI.
Zach S. –
Perfect for what I needed it for! For some reason (that makes no sense to my brother haha), I wanted to keep my old South FL home phone number. It originally went from a Landline, to Vonage, then to Ooma for 20 years. I switched to the free plan for Ooma (only playing taxes which came out to like $5+ a month). I then decided to take the journey to port it from Ooma to Google Voice. After about 16 days it finally ported over to Ting! Which led me to this phone.
I cam looking on Amazon for a cheap unlocked GSM phone to use with Ting. This fit the bill. Decided to take a shot and it did what I needed. Took a little while with some searching on Amazon to figure out the thing cause the directions are pretty worthless. Used a nail clipper (I have no fingernails haha) to pry it open. To do that on the bottom right (as in my 2nd pic) just pry in the groove there and it’ll come apart eventually. You’ll prob have to work around it to get it all off. Then after figuring the right position for the sim card (last pic) got that going. I first tried the top part thinking that’s where it goes, but it has to go all the way down. It works with Ting just fine! They got great customer service by the way. This was the cheapest way for me to port the number. I took a picture of the way the battery goes. It only goes in one way. I saw another question about using the flashlight, to do that you can access it from the menu or long pressing the 0 button that has the icon. To turn it on you long press the Phone icon on the right with the slash through it (and very little power icon I just noticed).
Volume sounds really loud. Can’t comment on battery since I’ve only taken one call so far to verify my number with Google Voice. This phone screams perfect for kids to stay in touch with their parents. I think I’ll keep it as a backup phone and one to travel with (if that ever starts happening again) abroad. Overall outside of the lackluster instructions, it seems like a great phone for what it is.
A Customer –
Excelente producto