The Blu C9 Cell Phone Review

The Blu C9 (see video below) has factory loaded apps, including Solitaire, Monopoly. And it also has a Minigames tab, which I have not seen on any other Android operating systems. This phone has Android 13. You can't turn the tab off. When I clicked on one of the games, it didn't load. So, I waited for about 1 minute and I closed it. And tried another game, which did load after about 1 minute.

The Blu C9 also has a feature called Xtra Ram. If you go to settings, then click on System, you'll see that its initially set to 1 gigabyte of, extra ram usage. You have the ability to change it to 2 gigabytes, which gives you more processing power. Personally, I didn't notice a difference. Its important to note, that I received a notification, about Tubi. But  I didn't want to receive any to be notifications about the application. I realized it was a system setting. And I verified that all settings for that system application, were turned off. However, I couldn't turn any off the main application service off. But the phone supposed to be unlocked from all these carrier settings. However, the phone has a lot of similarities to a locked phone, because there are so many restrictions 

The next thing I noticed, is that you can't use the picture in picture feature called, display over other apps. For example, if you go to apps and then you select the YouTube app. Next, scroll down to the display other apps the feature. It states that this feature is not available, because it slows down your phone. But I have another phone with less RAM and a quad processor, compared to this phones octoprocessor, which is twice the processing power. Yet my other phone can run the app in the background, but this one can't. And some apps inform you that they cannot run properly, unless you enabled the display over other apps feature. So that is definitely a con.

Frankly, the dual sim makes this phone desirable. You are able to have 2 different service plans, from the same or different phone carriers. There are so many options that allow you to configure the sim cards. You can use the default SIM names, or personalize the name. I had no trouble receiving calls from either GSM carrier.

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Blu Product Phone	Blu View 4	Blu C9
GSM Carrier	Locked	Unlocked
RAM/ Internal Storage	3GB/ 32 GB	2GB(internal)+2GB (Xtra RAM)/64GB
Features	13MP-5MP camera	Fingerprint Sensor/8MP-5MP camera Dual Sim
Processor	2.0 GHz Quad-Core	1.6 GHz Octa-Core
Battery	4,000mAh	4,000mAh
Case Included	No	Yes
Android Version/Tech	12/GSM-3G&4G	13/GSM-3G&4G
Price	Locked to carrier $39.99	Un/locked to carrier $69.99