BLU products is an American company that manufactures mobile phone products targeting people in third world countries. They also manufacture mobiles phones for other countries like Canada, USA and the United Kingdom. The smartphones are designed in the USA but are manufactured in China. The latest smartphone launch is the BLU G9 Pro which was released in September 2019. There are other latest mobile phones by the same company as well and below are reviews of the newest BLU phone:
Blu G9 Pro Review
The Blu G9 Pro is the best blu phone 2019-2020. It is a new device that has high-end features. This smartphone is basically an upgrade of the previous Blu G9 that was launched in May 2019. The features included in this device are those found in expensive phones. It features wireless charging, has stellar price in regard to its performance ratio and is quite affordable. It also has a good fit and finish.
Design
Blu G9 Pro has dimensions of 157 x 75.1 x 8.6 mm and weighs 183 grams. It has an attractive look in the mid-range category. It comes in attractive colours of black and Gradient Blue. At the front is a single selfie camera with 24 MP a display of 6.3 inches screen. At the top of the front camera is a microphone. The phone features triple cameras at the back and the power and volume buttons located at the right side. The dual SIM and microSD card of up to 128 GB are at the left side.
Display
The Blu G9 has a screen display of 6.3 inches (97.4 cm2) and a screen body ratio of 19.5:9. It has a reasonable resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels and pixel density of 409ppi for defined and crisper display. The display type is the IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16 colors.
Performance
The smartphone features the Android 9.0 pie OS that can be upgraded to Android 10.0. It runs the Mediatek MT6771 Helio P60 (12 nm) chipset and Mali-G72 MP3 GPU. It has the Octa-core (4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A53). The storage memory can be expanded to up to 128 GB. It has an internal memory of 128 GB and 4 GB RAM memory.
Camera
The Blu G9 pro comes with a triple camera set up at the back. These include the 20 MP night shooter, 5 MP sensors and a 16 MP primary camera. In front is a 24 MP powerful camera for selfie photos and videos. The primary camera has separate depth sensor on that makes it perform better.
Battery
The phone has a non-removable Li-Polymer 4000mAh battery. It supports fast charging 18W and fast Qi wireless charging 10W.
Blu G9 Review
The G9 is a beautiful unlocked smartphone for mid-2019 with a big-screen, upper-end hardware as well as big battery experience and has a mirror metallic finish. It is the first Blu phone that has a V-notch cut-out display. The smartphone comes in Gradient Blue and Black colours.
Design
The Blu G9 is different from other Blu smartphones as it is very attractive with modern design. It has a remarkable blue colour with a branded ‘BLU’ at the rear and stylized ‘B’ at the bottom rear which is the first BLU product to feature this. It has a 6.3-inch screen which one of the largest Blu phones ever. It has 89% screen to body ratio which is a high rating and features a V-notch (waterdrop).
At the front, the phone has a 13-megapixel camera positioned at the top center of the phone. Above the front camera is a microphone while at the back of the phone is a 13-megapixel main sensor that is capable of creating approximately 52 megapixel images. It also has a 13-megapixel depth sensor camera. The power and volume buttons are located at the right side of the screen while at the bottom are the 3.5 mm audio jack, speaker and a USB C.
The Blu G9 features a fingerprint sensor situated at the back, about two-thirds up the centre. It also has the microSD expansion card slot as well as a dual-SIM card slot which are situated at the left edge of the phone. It has dimensions of 155.4 x 71.8 x 8 mm and weighs 165 grams.
Display
The phone has a 6.3-inch HD display screen with 720 x 1420 pixels resolution. It has 267ppi and its screen is protected with 2.5D curved glass screen. It also features capacitive multi-touch screen and 16M display colors.
Software
The phone features Android 9 Pie and has few adds-on. The Blu G9 has default suite of Google apps and two other titles.
Performance
The Blu G9 runs the quad-core Media Tek Helio P22 platform at 2.0 GHz; 4 GB RAM memory and has storage of 64 GB. It is therefore in the category of mid-range phones and performs and handles well common tasks like texting, emailing, web browsing and the rest. It also has proximity, light, accelerometer, compass and fingerprint sensors.
Camera
With the Blu G9 you experience HDR mode and features like beauty, pro, photo and video modes. It has pretty good cameras that rhyme with the price. It has depth sensing camera which is at the back. The 52 megapixel mode main camera helps stich together a couple of shots producing desirable details. In addition, there is the night mode that is capable of providing decent images at low light environments. There is the image resolution of 4160 x 3120 pixels and video resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.
Battery
It features 4, 000mAh power battery that supports quick charging. The battery when fully charged can take up to 2-3 days. When combined with the underpowered GPU and CPU and the resolution display screen can last just a day. It takes 2.5 hours to fully charge using the 5V/2A charger.