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To introduce myself, I had a Samsung Skyrocket S2 that decided to die on me at the end of last month, and then my backup phone (a cheap Chinese phone) decided to start dying too. There's a phone I want to spend some money on coming out in the next few months, but I need something to get by and to act as a backup phone when I do make that purchase, so after some searching I settled for this one. I listen to a lot of music on my phone, read email, do some app development of my own as a grad student, and occasionally watch videos on Youtube or use GPS to find some place I've never visited before. All in all, barring development I'm a fairly gentle phone user but I also have some tech savvy to form a useful opinion. When I looked up info on the Advance 4.0, I was able to find specs but not much in the way of useful reviews, so I tried to be as thorough writing this as possible.Design: The Advance 4.0 is bulky for a 4" phone - it's nearly as large in length and width as my 4.5" Samsung S2 Skyrocket, and it's thicker too. The outside of the case is smooth plastic - it isn't slippery in the hand but it does attract fingerprints more than any other phone I've had. However, the phone does come with an Otterbox-like case and a screen protector, and I'd recommend using both. Inside under the battery are two SIM slots and an SD slot. The SIM slots are easy to use and well-labelled but the SD slot frankly scares me. It's flimsy and easy to bend and doesn't offer much protection to the card in the slot. Add that to being under the battery and this isn't a phone for someone who likes to use multiple SD cards. However, all of this is to be expected with a phone in this price range, and getting a case and screen protector included is a great deal.Performance: The MediaTek chip and 512mb of RAM in this phone might not be impressive compared to a flagship phone, but for day to day operation they perform admirably. Multitasking is generally quick, Youtube and Google Maps load quickly and the phone is loaded with what is basically stock Jelly Bean, which is great. There's no extra junkware to get rid of and the Play Store is ready to go. I should note that I am not a phone gamer, but if you want a cell phone that can play high-end games this is probably not the phone for you. Social games and the like should work fine (I only tried Angry Birds, hardly a tech demo game).Connectivity: The Advance 4.0's antenna is quite strong - I had trouble getting signal in my basement with my S2, but get 3 bars with this phone. Bluetooth connectivity is similarly impressive - I was able to pair my headset immediately and had signal with my phone in one corner of the house all the way to the garage on the other side - 45 feet away through walls. Data connectivity is flawless - both on wifi and 3g (the phone is compatible with HSPA+) are capped by my provider and ping was good per Speedtest. 3g tethering also works well - assuming your provider lets you do this.Battery: The Advance 4.0 comes with a 1600mah battery, which with the MediaTek chip should last a very long time. To test, I unplugged the phone at 7AM yesterday, and for the entire day streamed music via wifi to my bluetooth headset - a double drain on the battery. I also downloaded a variety of apps and podcasts and browsed the web some. Then I left the phone on overnight, continuing to download more podcasts while I slept. When I plugged it in at 7:30 this morning it still had 25% battery left. For a budget phone this is outstanding. I wouldn't normally listen to 12 hours of music like that, so there's no way I'm going to kill the battery unless I forget to charge it for two days.Screen: ... and this is where the wheels come off. The screen on this phone is just short of abysmal. It's not that it's an 800x480 screen - I've had that resolution on other phones and they looked much better than this one. The colors are distorted unless you are looking directly at the phone. This isn't the usual complaint that reviewers have about viewing angles - you literally can't be tilting the phone at all or it's no good. In addition, even if you are looking directly at it images and videos are grainy and just don't look right. However, for normal phone navigation and app use it's adequate. If you wanted to watch anything on your phone, you will be disappointed. I'm lucky that my top use for a smartphone (streaming music) doesn't require much use of this screen.Conclusion:With a phone in this price range, something always has to give. You either get an a phone that's still running Gingerbread, specs that are subpar, or a battery that can't make it through the day. In this case it's the screen, but even that is really only so bad if you want to watch videos. I expect later this year there will be a lot of competition for budget phones, but if you need a phone right now and only have $100 to spare this is not at all a bad choice.

What I Like:-Decent, Solid feel-Price-Speaker quality is okay (ear piece and loud speaker)-Wireless connections work properly-Dual SIM is a nice feature-Expandable MicroSD storageWhat I don't like:-If you set it down wrong it will shut down, I have no idea how or why but if I set it on my counter a certain way it will reboot, no it is not dropped or thrown on the counter, honestly have no idea why.-Slow responsiveness to touch screen(but then again you paid $90 for this..)-Claim to be getting HSPA+ or HSPA when I know for a fact that I am no; At my camp(in the middle of nowhere where no other phone gets anything other that EDGE and the occasional 3G) this phone claims to have HSPA+ and HSPA. but then will not load anything internet related, not sure what the deal is what that, Obviously not HSPA there.Conclusion: Overall its a phone, nothing very fancy but its a cheap android phone(exactly what I was looking for) there are some flaws with this device, but then again only paid $90 for it. If you want something to work like a high-end phone, then you gotta pay for a high-end phone.BIGGEST ANNOYANCE: When it turns off because you set it down wrong..

I bought this for the wife who was already familiar with using an Android tablet so this was not much of a learning curve for her to use as her first Smart Phone.I got this to work with Our Ptel sim cards and setup was as easy as taking the sim out of her old flip phone and sliding it into this one. I also added a 8GB micro SD card for apps and things.Everything here is pretty standard Android fare so using the phone is nothing new to those familiar with Android.The phone seems to get a good signal and she hears callers clearly and they hear her clearly as well. Calls occasionally drop.Texting for her is now a breeze compared to her old flip phone.Instead of upping the cost of running the phone with just a standard text and talk plan (5 bucks a month on average) I hooked it up to our wireless at home with no problem and it seems to have no issues maintaining a good wifi signal in the home.Setting it to use the SD card for apps and storage was an easy thing to change in the settings.It takes pictures that look fine.. I'm wondering if everyone that bought the phone found the clear plastic over the lens when it arrives.. it would be easy to miss. Although not as good a camera as the 5MP camera on our ASUS tablets.. it's fine for a phone and better than most.I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a cheap fairly well made android phone and not wanting to spend big bucks to do it.Update 2/26/2016: We've since moved over to Ting since Ptel decided to drop their service. It works fine on Ting as well but the wife continues to get dropped calls with this phone while I don't with My Samsung flip phone (I prefer simple reliable mobiles to smart phones). As she also had the same problem under ptel, I can only assume this phone is a tad defective in its primary purpose of being a phone. I've dropped my rating to a 3.

Nice phone for the money. Good features, plenty of apps from Google Play. But beware -- the manual is worthless as it doesn't tell you how to operate 90% of the features of the phone. You learn it by just playing with it. Manual doesn't even tell you how to install SIM or SD cards. Be careful if you encrypt phone -- not sure there is a way to decrypt it. WiFi Hotspot feature won't connect to the Internet -- even with all the settings set correctly. Still trying to figure out how to get it to work. BLU products doesn't have a good support site -- frankly, they don't have any. Need to search Google for help and support. Android forums seem best so far. BLU needs to really up their game with support. Someone needs to write a user guide "BLU Advance 4.0 - The Missing Manual" ;)