We have owned vary many cell phones over the years, cheap phones as well as flag ship phones. My wife's Galaxy died and she asked for a good phone, but with a small budget. I purchased this Vivo 5R due to its good specs. The phone has a very good quality screen, the sensitivity could be better as if the fingers are too dry it will not pick up the touch from the first time. The shell of the phone feels like it's made of metal or aluminum. It is easy to hold and weighs less than my LG G5. The USB charger is a standard Micro-USB, it's good because we have lots of accessories with that cable and not need to buy more USB Type C. The camera works very good in day light and outside, when taking pictures at night they come out very pixalized and grainy, the same thing goes for both front and back cameras. The great part about the cameras is the amount of filters pre-loaded and different shooting modes, anyone can shoot pro like pictures with ease on this phone. The battery is just phenomenal, it easily lasts a day with heavy use, when using it lightly my wife can go 3 days without recharging, just make sure and turn off background apps you don't want to use. When using email and text messages the messages get sent right away and the transfer speeds seem as fast as my G5. When watching Youtube videos I don't see any lag, but it would also depend on your connection for the carrier, we have T-Mobile with 4G LTE coverage. The phone can accept 2 SIM cards with 2 different phone numbers to work at once, or 1 SIM and 1 MicroSD card. The biggest problem with this phone would be the speaker, it is not loud. If you are in a busy or loud environment you will probably not hear the phone ring. Overall I really like this phone and give it 4 stars. The price is very good, at $200 it was hard to find a better buy. I would recommend this to anyone on a budget and that doesn't care about the newest and greatest. My personal phone is the LG G5 which I paid $700 about 6 months ago, this phone is almost as good for a fraction of the cost. I was not paid or offered anything for this review. I read reviews on my items before I buy them and hope people are honest in their reviews therefore write my honest opinion. If you found this review to be helpful please click the button below that it helped you. Have an amazing day.

Great price, great product. Works better than other leading brands. Both cameras work great and with a very good image quality. The sound is outstanding. My only complaint is the battery, it last almost all day but for someone like me, who uses the GPS and the browser VERY often, it is not enough. It last to me from 9 to 7 on one charge. But it is a really good phone for the price.

I bought this to be a vacation backup. Whenever I travel somewhere sandy or mountainous I leave my main phone at home and take this one. It's performed well every time. I took advantage of the open bootloader and installed lineageOS, which is a huge improvement over stock. The screen is clear and bright, the battery lasts all day, and it's durable. I don't use a case and there's hardly a scratch on it after a few trips' use. It only gets 4 stars because it has 2gb of memory and it's crippling. Everything gets sluggish throughout the day and it's necessary to restart it every day to clear the memory. Overall, it does the job I bought it for.

I really have no complaints with this phone at all. I did not know what to expect for the price but this is on par with, if not better than, my last phone which was a MUCH more expensive "namebrand". The pics on this are really incredible, the clarity of sound is very good and it has proven to be quite durable. I hike and climb mountains every weekend so I have a reputation for destroying phones at breakneck speed and even though I have already put this through the ringer, it is like new. I suppose if I have to find one thing to critique is that notifications do not always come through timely as they did with my last phone but it has not proven to be that big of a deal so far. Honestly...for under $200, I cannot imagine a better phone.

This smartphone has all the features you need for basic business. The cameras are AWESOME! I needed a new phone and this does EVERYTHING!! It has great screen clarity. The only downside is that the speaker is on the back and sometimes it is not very loud. I will probably be buying Blu phones for a long time to come! Great features for the price.