BLU Tank II T193 Unlocked GSM Dual-SIM Cell Phone w/Camera and 1900 mAh Big Battery – Unlocked Cell Phones – Retail Packaging (Dark Blue)

Great little phone
Great little phone. Got this for teenage son for first phone. Does the job. Is unlocked, used with T-Mobile prepaid. No issues at set up. Does have dual SIM (at least the blue one did). Can use business number on one SIM and personal number on other SIM. Doesn’t fit my needs but thought I’d mention it. Battery is nice and long. No decent instructions come with it so just takes time to figure everything out. Can lock the keypad by pressing the top left corner control button and the “*” key. However this doesn’t prevent the phone from shutting off if the power button is held down. I don’t like that fact but it’s the only real complaint j have. The radio works well and my son has managed to get music on a mini SD card loaded into the phone so it acts as an MP3. Has a camera, but he and I do not believe you can send or receive photos (at least we haven’t been able to). Durable little phone, my son is clumsy and drops things a lot so this one has held up for a month so far with no issue. No internet access on this phone (this was the whole reason we purchased it). Did not feel 13 yr old should have access to the entire world in the palm of hand. Lot of responsibility there and with this generations focus to validate self through social media, waned to keep his focus on his real life accomplishments and face to face interactions with friends. He will go through those motions on his own as all teens push for that freedoms and experience. Be for now, while he is still on the younger side of teenage years, this phone works wonderfully for us. P.S. My son has taken our encouragement to be fun with his “outdated” type phone in school and often makes remark as it is his Stone Age phone, enticing humor amongst his peers. He says he doesn’t mind it being outdated and even likes that it’s a little sturdier than his friends. (Of course he does dream for an iPhone but just thought I’d mention it in case any other parents out there were in the same place I was and worried your child might hate you for an outdated phone. They won’t, they know you love them and are thinking in their best interest. It shows.) Hope this review details enough for any type I future buyer.

Technically the phone ‘works’, but no known compatible service provider
I checked with tech support of my current wireless provider (Net10) prior to purchasing this phone, to confirm whether or not it was compatible with their service. Unfortunately they mistakenly told me it was. So I bought it. Come to find out this phone does NOT work through their AT&T SIM/towers. They advised that it should work with T-Mobile compatible SIM/towers. So I took the phone over to MetroPCS (a T-Mobile partner), then to T-Mobile itself, and confirmed in both cases that the phone does NOT work with them either. Now I’ve spent untold hours on numerous support calls and chats, doing extensive research, visiting phone shops, and still don’t have a working phone. Not only that but I spent extra money buying a SIM adapter.Anyone considering buying this phone ought to do extreme due diligence about ascertaining a wireless provider beforehand. I would love if someone could say here what service (as of Sep 2018) this phone actually DOES work with, in the US. I could update this review if I could actually get the product to work, but for now, to me, the phone is worthless and I’ve only wasted countless hours on it. Very unsatisfied.The phone also does not come with any instructions, but for a 3-page foldout with a pictograph on how to insert the SIM card. Other than that one has to figure out everything about how this phone operates on one’s own. If you are not a techie or get easily frustrated with phones/technology, be warned.

Great phone, but good luck using in the USA
It’s a non-smartphone, it does everything a phone should do, even has a convenient shortcut to access the flashlight which is nice. However, if you’re in the US, you will have a very hard time finding a carrier that will give you a compatible plan, as this phone does not support any of the GSM bands that US carriers still run (as of Dec 2023, even a call/text only plan requires “at least GSM bands 4, 12, and 13” which this device does not support)

This BLU phone is replacing my Nokia 2680 that I use for an alarm clock and I found it by searching for the cheapest price. The phone has only three great annoying ring tones to wake up to with five programmable times each day good enough for shift work. The battery life seems to be okay until I left my house for weekend, one only knows how many times it rang before it Shut itself off.

Celular Básico pero de buena calidad y batería muy duradera