BLU Advance L5 | 2020 | Long Lasting Battery | Unlocked | 4.0” Display | 16GB | 5MP Camera | US Warranty | Black

It's $40, you can't really complain. Yes it is small, yes it is slow, no it won't run a lot of apps but do you want to know what it will do? It will call and text, it has an okay camera, it will run social media apps and play YouTube videos. As expected and does what it's supposed to for dirt cheap.

I know this is an inexpensive phone, but there's no excuse for being this slow. And I don't mean for streaming or anything intensive, either. It's just s-l-o-w. Click and wait. Wait. Wait. Even on the most basic features you wait and wait and wait. I often miss calls because the button to accept the call sometimes takes 8+ rings to show up. So frustrating. This might be the fault of my network provider, but it drops calls all the time ("network busy" or "network unavailable"). I still can't figure out how to hang up on voicemail. There's no button. Sometimes it just keeps yacking and yacking until I reboot. Every time I access voicemail, it says it's not set up, but the option to set it up doesn't do anything. Holding it against your face like a normal phone results in all sorts of weird button presses. Sound quality is poor. It works better on speaker held farther away. Ridiculous. Did the developers even try to use this thing? Overall a lousy phone. I'm keeping it because it's simple and marginally useful, but pay a little extra for something that actually works. That said, it's hard to find 4" phones these days, which is my optimal size. --- Update: I downgraded this to one star. This piece of junk doesn't qualify as a phone. I miss a lot of calls because the option to accept them doesn't even appear until 8+ rings in. When it does show up in time, it doesn't work half the time. I press accept over and over while it's ringing, and the button blinks showing I pressed it, but no accept. Pure garbage. Spend a few dollars more and get a real phone.

Excelente

I have T-Mobile service and when they implemented their new 5G network in mid-July my 2016 Samsung Galaxy J1 was no longer supported. I tried this Blue phone I bought last year as a backup and it has been working fine on the new T-Mobile network for 3 weeks. However, I have not tried T-Mobile 'data'; if I need a network connection, I just use my network at home. I have had several people tell me it is hard for them to tell hear me during phone calls. They have been able to hear me okay using other phones calling from the same locations so the difference must be this Blue phone. I like a small phone and they are becoming hard to find. Small is not popular so I think small phones don't receive a lot of care from manufacturers. This phone has only 500 MB RAM and it shows. Switching from phone to messages takes a few seconds. The phone likes to run only one application at a time. The OS is Android Go but the only difference I have found is that many/most desktop widgets aren't supported. Maybe there are other differences but I don't do much with the phone other than make calls, take text notes, and keep a calendar. This phone is fine for these simple things, small in size, and works with new T-Mobile network.

Good phone for the price

Bright

Very laggy AND SIM CARD DOES NOT work nor do basic apps don’t be cheap and get something 10-30$ more dollars this is not worth it

brought this as a throw away phone until the new iphone comes out and its really slow, the apps and internet are non-functional even on wifi. It is only good for phone calls and text, the call quality isn't good since the person on the other line can not hear clearly, it is just good as a cheap temp phone nothing more.