any super skinny phones you can recommend?

[luv2liv]

im looking at the BLU vivo air LTE at 5.1 mm, for $140, with 1 year usa warranty.
wife wants them super skinny. dont care about specs. she doesnt do anything fancy besides email, mms, and casual web for news. no need for games.
are there better options? thanks!

 

[Commodus]

What's your budget? How thin does it really need to be? I'd say the iPhone 6s is still pretty slim, even if it's 2mm thicker than the BLU phone.

With that said, BLU's phone is definitely cheaper... just be ready to replace it, because a $140 phone won't be fast or well-supported.

 

[Artdeco]

I've read some terrible reviews of Blue smartphones, I'd pass

 

[luv2liv]

oh yeah, heres a list of super skinny phones
http://www.phonearena.com/news/5-of-the-thinnest-Android-smartphones-currently-available_id71691
too bad the samsung a8 is not available anywhere in usa to try out
the reason i mentioned the Blu is because the local MicroCenter has it. not sure of where to try out the others on that list.

 

[luv2liv]

What's your budget? How thin does it really need to be? I'd say the iPhone 6s is still pretty slim, even if it's 2mm thicker than the BLU phone.

With that said, BLU's phone is definitely cheaper... just be ready to replace it, because a $140 phone won't be fast or well-supported.

cant stand the recent iphone design with the 2 lines or tones. makes it look cheap like patched up clothes or something. prefer to have 1 solid color. the best design from apple was the iphone 4 imho. but that thing weighted like a brick.

 

[Starjack]

Hey guys i'm new here i'm looking forward to contributing on this forum

I've read some terrible reviews of Blue smartphones, I'd pass

Not in my part of the world, I'm from Trinidad in the Caribbean and Blu phones are very popular and does hardly see any terrible reviews for it. It even some Americans who endured Blu. Although i have read somewhere that Blu phones were of similar design to some Chinese manufacturers like Gionee.

 

[luv2liv]

i finally ordered the BLU vivo air lte from amazon for $140 and here's my mini review.
BLU doesnt make any phones, the company rebadges from chinese companies. in this case, the vivo air lte is a variant of Gionee Elife series.

first impression, it is beautiful and feels premium. amazing look and feel for a phone that costs $140. front and back glass, a fall will probably shatter this phone instantly. the phone is 5.1 mm and feels super light weight. i have never hold any phone that is this light. you barely feel it is there in the front pants pocket. you probably could hold it up to your ears all day talking without fatigue.

wife loves it! unfortunately, she cant use it. currently she is on Republic Wireless for $15 per month. the BLU phone is a GSM phone with nano SIM card. Cricket refuses to port her RW number in because Cricket thinks her number is a landline. she doesnt want to lose her mobile number. long story short, im using my cricket sim card with this BLU phone and love it! people are amazed and more shocked when i divulge the price.

pros
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+ fast and very responsive with this Qualcom 4xx chip. on a daily basis, i use the phone for emails, chat, txt with swype, google maps, reading news on firefox, and looking at family photos and videos. no lag
+ 2,000mah battery lasts easily 2 days with mix of wifi/lte on all day. i was amazed! although to be honest, im not a phone addict. im not constantly looking at social media. and i dont play games. compared to my asus zenphone 2 with 3,000mah, that would last 1.3 day.
+ its says the camera sensor is from Sony. but i never use phones to take photos nor video. DSLR 4 life. to me, all photos taken from smartphones are lousy anyway.
+ amoled screen is amazing! black is black. 720p is all i need for basic tasks. i know 4k screen snobs here will laugh at me.

cons
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- no NFC. not a biggie for me since i never care for it. dont care about mobile payments
- no QuickCharge. even though the chip supports QC, the phone takes about 2hrs to fully charge. i miss this feature a lot! guess i will leave it charging overnight.
- no wireless charging
- as others have mentioned here and other forums, no future support. phone is now on android 5.0.2. im ok with this as im not using this for work nor secured things like banking.
- no expandable memory mSD slot. stuck with 16gb. better beef up wifi coverage for streaming instead of having all the music and videos on a 64gb card
- no way to change battery. damn.
- most likely not waterproof


3 years ago, the chinese phones i tried were mediocre. but this BLU version is truly amazing. if you are not a power user, this might be the phone for you.

 

[Jawadali]

Thanks for the review. I was also recently researching this phone the phone for a family member who expressed interest in a thin and light Android phone, upgrading from an iPhone 4S.

It seemed like it had a number of key features we were looking for (thin, compact size, decent screen resolution and RAM, decently-spec'd front and back cameras). Unfortunately, I then realized that it did not have a MicroSD card slot.

I'm not familiar with porting cell phone numbers, but it may be worth investigating the possibility of porting the number to a prepaid T-mobile or AT&T SIM card, and then port to Cricket.