BLU Z5 -GSM Unlocked Dual Sim -Coral

Perfect for what I needed it for! For some reason (that makes no sense to my brother haha), I wanted to keep my old South FL home phone number. It originally went from a Landline, to Vonage, then to Ooma for 20 years. I switched to the free plan for Ooma (only playing taxes which came out to like $5+ a month). I then decided to take the journey to port it from Ooma to Google Voice. After about 16 days it finally ported over to Ting! Which led me to this phone.I cam looking on Amazon for a cheap unlocked GSM phone to use with Ting. This fit the bill. Decided to take a shot and it did what I needed. Took a little while with some searching on Amazon to figure out the thing cause the directions are pretty worthless. Used a nail clipper (I have no fingernails haha) to pry it open. To do that on the bottom right (as in my 2nd pic) just pry in the groove there and it'll come apart eventually. You'll prob have to work around it to get it all off. Then after figuring the right position for the sim card (last pic) got that going. I first tried the top part thinking that's where it goes, but it has to go all the way down. It works with Ting just fine! They got great customer service by the way. This was the cheapest way for me to port the number. I took a picture of the way the battery goes. It only goes in one way. I saw another question about using the flashlight, to do that you can access it from the menu or long pressing the 0 button that has the icon. To turn it on you long press the Phone icon on the right with the slash through it (and very little power icon I just noticed).Volume sounds really loud. Can't comment on battery since I've only taken one call so far to verify my number with Google Voice. This phone screams perfect for kids to stay in touch with their parents. I think I'll keep it as a backup phone and one to travel with (if that ever starts happening again) abroad. Overall outside of the lackluster instructions, it seems like a great phone for what it is.

The phone didn’t work and it doesn’t take SIM cards this phone is absolutely terrible don’t buy only if you like wasting money.

Had top of the line phones from Samsung, moto, so many others and Blu.....well two Blu phones were more dependable, reliable, durable, and worth every penny spent. One took a dive in a toilet, discovered five minutes later, towel dried and still working ..that was four years ago.

The phone turned on and was working but when I tried to put my sim card in I broke the slot. I tried the other slot and it did not recognize my sim card. Maybe it just doesn't work with Consumer Cellular.

I bought this too long ago to return (just over 30 days) and I’ve spent that entire time just trying to get the thing to work. I’ve bought multiple SIM cards and started plans with multiple service providers (CDMA and GSM) to find that none of them work with this phone and that this phone only supports a few bands of 2G GSM. I eventually found that Red Pocket mobile uses the 1900MHz band that this phone uses, so I launched service with them. That ALSO failed!!! This phone never says anything besides “Emergency Call” which I assume means “Emergency calls only” and it has never worked with any of the SIM cards I’ve tried with it… even sims that should be compatible. Don’t get this phone unless you enjoy wasting time and money.

I bought this phone as an additional one as I wanted to keep my international number active to receive OTP, and it works great for the purpose. It can read sim from other country and work with local network.Phone came with some default language I dont understand but it was easy to switch to English.By going to Phone setting(based on image-spanner and bolts and option 2 from there) This would be challenging for most as default language is not english for this phone.Writing this review on 3rd day of use, still battery lasts and showing more but I am not using it for phone calls/just SMS.It has VGA camera, dual sim, external memory card slots(none of them i used yet).Phone is must buy for the price and if looking for calling/SMS purpose at this time.

Battery life is awesome.. can use up to 2 days without charging

Ok so i don’t hate this, but they discontinued service for this kind of phone so PLEASE DONT BUY IT IM BEGGING YOU. Again, nice phone while it was not obsolete.