Blu is back with another Android handset for U.S. consumers who prefer the unlocked life. The Blu R1 Plus packs a big screen and an even bigger battery. You can opt to use the phone on AT&T or ...

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Amazon today announced the Blu R1 HD, an inexpensive Android smartphone that will be sold unlocked starting July 12. The R1 HD boasts curved Gorilla Glass 3, a metal frame, and soft-touch paint job on ...

Is a $60 phone too cheap to be good? And is it so cheap that you won't care? That's what I wanted to know about the ad-supported Amazon Prime version of Blu's R1 HD phone, which knocks down the ...

The BLU R1 HD is a cheap smartphone that probably wouldn’t have gotten much attention when it launched the summer if it weren’t for a deal that made it really cheap: as an Amazon Prime Exclusive ...

BLU is a little-known American mobile phone company founded and headquartered in Doral, Florida. The company may not be talked about as one of the big boys of the smartphone world, but has launched a ...

BLU Products is now offering one of the best values for an entry Android smartphone. It comes unlocked, without any contract for only $49.99 with offers. The catch is with offers, which puts Amazon ...

The Blu R1 HD is a lot of things. More than anything else, it’s a perfectly usable Android smartphone that’s also very, very affordable. The base model starts at just $100 unlocked. If you buy it ...

I recently read a book called The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly. There are a bunch of chapters in it. One of the chapters was about how in the future we won’t really own much of anything, but we’ll have ...

The definition of good value in the world of smartphones continually gets redefined. As solid high-end components from years before steadily filter into mid-range and entry-level devices of today, the ...

The BLU R1 HD is the only unlocked smartphone under $100 featuring an array of high end features and performance which includes a vivid HD display using the latest on-cell touch panel technology with ...

BLU gets a lot right with the R1 HD, with its solid design and build quality, decent performance, and clean software experience. While the camera suffers and the lockscreen ads (with the Prime ...