As often happens in tech, while you are researching a path to get to your goal, somebody just goes and puts a product on the market that EXCEEDS your goal.
I was looking at a MOTO G 4.5 inch screen unit but was getting stopped by the lack of SD expansion and the relative rarity of a Moto G that had enough memory and 4G LTE capability (chasing down the T-Mobil track with the family plan thing).
Then BLU drops these little puppies into the mixture .... built to be "bring your own phone" to the T-Mobile plan, sold by Amazon and Walmart, not hard to come by at all.
Sorta blows up my $180 phone search, don't it? Yeah, $114 sorta does that, doesn't it?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P06A7Z2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&cr... FURTHERMORE, I was background searching a bigger Moto X type phone and BLU just dropped one of those at $100 less money .....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QKVEUFO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&cr...So, my $180 search now is fulfilled by a $114 phone and now has a $199 alternative that is a 5" screen bigger high spec'd phone that is one size bigger screen and has most of the feature pack of a Moto X phone.
Danger with BLU is that it is a Florida based US import firm that imports "name branded" Chinese throw away phones and
does not upgrade them at all for software or anything else. Nor do they really honor their warranty, just reading user comments on Amazon.
So, BLU is "throwaway quality" and mediocre durability. They contract for a big batch of name branded phones, sell them all out then go on to the next new item.
Quality varies on a per phone basis. Once an item gets replaced by something new, it goes to Woot and Ebay for a sell off before the batteries get stale .....