BLU Life Play X

Overview

Dual SIM Smartphopne By BLU

By Natasha

BLU is a mobile manufacturing company which was founded in 2009. Its headquarters are located in Dorai, United States. The company designs and develops attractive, innovative and affordable mobile phones. The Life Play X is a dual SIM smartphone which was released in January, 2014. The box comes packed with a handset, charger, battery, headset, USB cable, user manual and warranty card. Let's take a closer look at the specifications of this smartphone.

Design and Display

The Life Play X is a stylish smartphone as far as looks are concerned. The sheer slimness and compact form factor makes the phone easy to fit in most palms. It has got a height of 137mm, width of 68.4mm and thickness of 7.9mm as its dimensions along with a weight of 125grams. The front panel is dominated by a LED back-lit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen of 4.7-inches which is crafted using a BLU Infinite view and Nex lens technology. It has a multi-touch input method and the capacity to display 16 Million colors. The accelerometer, gyro, compass and proximity sensors are also there.

Hardware and Software

The smartphone is powered by a Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A7 processor accompanied by a MediaTek MT6589T chip-set and PowerVR SGX544 GPU to ensure a smart performance. It has a RAM of 1 GB and an internal storage of 16 GB which can be expanded to another 64 GB with the use of a micro SD card. It is based on the Android v4.2 Jelly Bean platform.

Telephony and Messaging

This dual SIM smartphone operates at frequencies of GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and HSDPA 2100 MHz networks. The user can store a huge number of contacts to its phonebook memory. The SMS, MMS, IM, email and push mail are the messaging facilities available for the device.

Camera

The 8 MP rear camera comes with a number of features like touch-focus, digital zoom, face detection, image stabilization, auto-focus, Geo-tagging, smile detection and high dynamic range (HDR). It also has a LED flash for low light imaging. The 2 MP front-facing camera of phone captures 1600x1200 resolution selfies and enables the users to do video calling. The camera uses BLU Bright+ technology for clearer and sharper pictures.

Multimedia

The Life Play X offers you an amazing viewing, gaming, browsing, streaming and imaging experience. Games and movies looks extremely good on the wide and bright display of phone. It comes equipped with a good quality music and video player for listening pleasure and entertainment. The smartphone also has a stereo FM radio to satisfy the music buffs. A number of apps comes pre-loaded on the phone including Google search, maps, you-tube, Gmail etc.

Connectivity and Battery

The connectivity attributes of the device include GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth v4.0, micro USB v2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Hotspot and 3G facilities. It also supports GPS and A-GPS for navigation. It is fueled by a Li-ion 1800 mAh battery which assures you a talk-time up to 18 hours and standby time up to 780 hours on 2G network while a talk-time up to 16 hours and standby time up to 700 hours on 3G network.

Shades and Price

The BLU Life Play X is available in single shade that is Black. The approximate price of this smartphone is Rs.11,000 may vary.