BLU Life One X3

[Bosgarage57]

Anyone here using the Life one x3 and want to give me their input? Is it worth the $150 or should I spend a bit more and look at the Honor 7x or V20 in the $200ish range?

Wanting a phone that has good battery life, don't game, browsing facebook/tapatalk/reddit. Currently running a moto z play and have no issues with it except missing bands for AT&T.

 

[Textbook]

I have one. Actually, I kind of have two. I ordered it from Amazon on 1/10/18 and it said it was delivered to my front porch on 1/15 while I was at work. Got home, no Amazon box to be found. Since 1/15 was Martin Luther King day, I thought maybe a mistake had been made, so I waited until the following day, but still no Amazon package when I got home, so at this point I think my Amazon box must have been stolen by a porch pirate. I contacted Amazon and they promptly shipped out a replacement. I also called USPS and opened a case. Well, my local postmaster reached out to me the following day after looking into my claim. My local post office was closed on Martin Luther King, so my package had actually been delivered by an out-of-town USPS driver, and he delivered it to the wrong address (East instead of West). I was able to recover the original package , plus I got the replacement that Amazon shipped me. I contacted Amazon and asked if I could keep the original, and the said I could. So I got two phones for the price of one due to a USPS error.

I gifted the first phone to my mother, and I'm using the other one. Mine has been rock-solid, I like it. Let me know if you have any specific questions.

However... my mother's phone has completely stopped working in just over a month. She says she didn't drop it or anything like that, and the phone shows no signs of really any wear at all. However, it's a brick. The phone will not power on and it will not charge. No LED even lights up when a charger is connected to it. I am in the process of getting an RMA set up for it.

So the sudden and epic death of one of the phones is a little worrying, but mine is still working great (knock on wood). Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like to know about it.

 

[Adam Matlock]

I had the same problem with my S1. Sudden death for no reason after about a month. Thank goodness for the warranty. I chalk it up to a defect. I haven't had any problems with the One Life X3. It's a solid phone. I hope you get your Mom's back soon and that you continue to enjoy yours.

 

[Textbook]

Well, I received my replacement today, but I think BLU screwed it up

The phone has the same IMEI as the phone I sent in, but no screen protector. I'm still not sure how to identify whether they repaired the phone I sent in or whether this is a replacement phone with some information transferred over. I am thinking the latter, because I was greeted with the new phone setup upon powering on the phone (meaning no data had been transferred over). In the middle of completing the first-time setup, I get a screen saying "Device is not certified by Google". I am provided a link for "Users who purchased this device:" and it leads to https://www.android.com/certified/ , of which BLU is listed as a certified partner on this page: https://www.android.com/certified/partners/

I am suspecting BLU screwed up

This seems to be pretty rare, because even a google search for this warning / error is not turning up many results.

So now I am guessing I will have to contact BLU again and probably have to send back the phone again and wait even longer to get a working phone. If this is the case, this is pretty terrible customer service