BLU Dash 4.5
BLU Dash 4.5 is a typical representative of the budget-oriented models constantly flooding the market and pushing the prices down. That happens because models like these are becoming common and used by a large number of people even from the developed countries such as the US. So, this is one of the cheap offerings released by the Miami based manufacturer. The company sells its products mainly in Latin America, while in the States they can be found through a various retailers like Amazon. BLU Dash 4.5 is a DUAL SIM device with dual standby. Up front, we are looking at a 4.5 inch screen with an 854 x 480 pixel resolution. In the heart of this smartphone is the quad-core processor at 1.2 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. The internal storage of the BLU Dash 4.5 is just 4 GB, but you can slide-in a cheap SD card and expand the storage of your choice. As far as the design, it looks standard with three hardware buttons – home, back and Menu. The company has placed the charging port on top as well as the headphone jack. BLU Dash runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and comes with features like FM radio, compass, accelerometer and proximity sensor. | |
General | |
2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 |
3G Network | HSDPA 850 / 1900 - D310a HSDPA 850 / 2100 - D310i |
SIM | Dual SIM (Mini-SIM, dual stand-by) |
Announced | 2013, July |
Status | Available. Released 2013, July |
Also Known As | BLU D300, BLU D310 |
Body | |
Type | Phone |
Dimensions | 133 x 65 x 12 mm (5.24 x 2.56 x 0.47 in) |
Weight | 144 g (5.08 oz) |
Display | |
Type | TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
Size | 480 x 854 pixels, 4.5 inches (~218 ppi pixel density) |
Multitouch | Yes |
Sound | |
Alert types | Vibration, MP3 ringtones |
Speakerphone | Yes |
3.5mm jack | Yes |
Memory | |
Card slot | microSD, up to 32 GB |
Internal | 4 GB ROM, 512 MB RAM |
Data | |
GPRS | Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps |
EDGE | Class 12 |
Speed | HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 11 Mbps |
WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot |
Bluetooth | Yes, v3.0 |
USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
Camera | |
Primary | 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, LED flash |
Features | Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization |
Video | Yes, 720p@30fps |
Secondary | Yes, VGA |
Features | |
OS | Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean) |
Chipset | MTK 6589M |
CPU | Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 |
GPU | PowerVR SGX544 |
Sensors | Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
Messaging | SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM |
Browser | HTML5 |
Radio | Stereo FM radio |
GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support |
Java | Yes, via Java MIDP emulator |
Colors | Black |
Other | - SNS integration
- MP3/AAC/WMA/WAV/Flac player - DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/WMV player - Organizer - Document editor - Image viewer/editor - Voice memo/dial/commands - Predictive text input (Swype) |
Standard Battery | |
Type | Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery |
Stand by | Up to 900 h (2G) / Up to 750 h (3G) |
Talk time | Up to 24 h (2G) / Up to 10 h (3G) |