What the quoted "to be" price range of that XL?
Might be my next phone... nevermind...found it

Unlocked to boot! However previous BLU XL Vivo was T mobile only


https://www.amazon.com/BLU-ENERGY-XL-Battery-Smartphone/dp/B01GWUXNBE

(P.S. removed and re-installed Chrome browser, works better now  )

(P.P.S. Just found out Verizon does not do sims any longer..... guess i'll have to change services to use an unlocked phone)

Final edit: (P.P.P.S. [?])  Had a very long chat session with a representative who explained to me that Verizon "can" make a sim for a phone, they don't like it, but you are the customer. I will have to go to my store or one that does provide the service. See they hate having folks come in with "cheap chinese" super phones that beat up their $700 ones
The above XL does come unlocked, but... yeah a but... it doesn't support verizon for some reason, or so the reviews state. And THAT is why I will have to go to the store and talk to someone. I will actually go to several stores, so I know for a fact if they have or can do what I will ask of them.
Most of the BLU phones I have seen on Amazon show that they work well with AT &T and T-Mobile and a few other secondary providers, but not with Sprint and Verizon.... so whats up with that?

EDIT AGAIN: LOL answering my own questions, and hopefully providing information for others.
BLU does not work on Verizon or Sprint or any other CDMA phone services, only on GMA types.
So... find out what your service using for connection purposes before buying a phone online
Didn't they use to make phones "quad band" or some such? like a world phone that covers all bands?

That was quick ......   actually 6 mos sooner than I thought it would be.

http://liliputing.com/2016/07/samsungs-ufs-removable-memory-cards-5x-faster-m...

Samsung’s UFS removable memory cards are 5x faster than microSD cards






MicroSD cards are tiny, convenient removable storage cards that can be used with some cameras, tablets, smartphones, and other devices. But they’re not exactly super-speedy.

Now Samsung has unveiled a next-gen removable memory card that’s about 5 times faster. In fact, Samsung’s new UFS (Universal Flash Storage) cards offer read/write speeds that are on par with what you’d expect from a high-end SSD.

Samsung’s UFS drives will be available in capacities up to 256GB at launch, and here are some of the performance specs, according to the company:

530 MB/s sequential read speeds
170 MB/s sequential write speed
40,000 IOPS random read rate
35,000 IOPS random write rate

In real-world terms, Samsung says you can use the card to continuously shoot 24 JPEG photos with file sizes of 1,120 MB in about 7 seconds, or read an entire 5GB full-HD movie in 10 seconds.

The UFS removable memory cards are based on the same technology as the UFS 2.0 internal storage Samsung introduced earlier this year.


Every OS just got a lot faster, but the ranking of speed remains the same.   Microsoft benefits the most since they were the bulkiest and slowest by quite a large margin.

But your phone PC just got a lot more real .......   don't forget the "soldered on board" versions and the inserted into a memory slot versions of this same new tech.    It will take competitor products hitting the market and a year or so of settle in time before the pricing gets more reasonable on this new much faster systems / SSD memory (and it rolls over into everything).

Kiss your platter hard drives goodby, this is their replacement technology.    Ditto for DDRAM on the motherboard.

Samsung/IBM/Global Foundry consortium (serving Apple and Google) is still there, still pumping out new processor generations and other processor technology & refinements.

Samsung has also partnered with a couple of the memory companies and has now generated some new generation tech there that will make our devices much faster (at least for one go round, anyway).

Samsung is the main PC and phone innovator right now, taking the place of the old school boys (Apple, MS, Intel) who have fallen by the wayside pretty much.

Intel is stagnant, and MS and Apple are depending on new Intel processors to make their products "better and faster".

Intel can't supply anything that is really any faster, but it can supply the "same ol same ol" somewhat cheaper than before with slightly better battery life, which is all the old school guys are touting right now as "improvements".

Indeed the biggest upper showing lately is having the Intel chipsets to not slow down quite so much whenever they get somewhat warmer than dead cold.

Tech stuff, like THAT? $99.00???
Do they have suicide nets on that building?

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/19/16 at 02:22:15:


The newest Moto E is similar, but not out yet.   Pretty Good Phones are going to get CHEAP this year, driven by Chinese market and financial forces.

Look to see the upscale market leaders suffer as folks opt more and more for these Pretty Good Phones .....   talking Apple and Samsung here

Yep, I mentioned it about 4 posts up.    Softbank is acting as a consortium of sorts, we still don't know who exactly is behind that purchase deal right now, but that may become apparent soon enough.

The large drop in British monetary values due to the EU exit may have provided the opportunity, but the particular rational and various players are not clear right now.

Last time MS tried to buy up ARM (ARM is rather small potatoes money-wise compared to the old big boys) Apple stepped in to block that play.   This time there is no real blocking going on .... both Apple and Google have interests in ARM so they may be players in the Softbank consortium -- or not as the case may be.

Something is up, you can count on that ........