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Bluey Phone Review
Bluey Phone Review
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4:23 · Apr 1, 2026
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Hey, what's up?
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MKBHD here and welcome to a hands-on
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and first impressions of the Blu phone made by VTech.
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So, I was just scrolling top-rated phones on Amazon a couple days ago
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and I saw this one has gotten incredible ratings
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and I haven't gotten my hands on it yet.
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Maybe I'm not on their review program list or something.
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So, I ordered one and now it's here.
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It costs $10.99.
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That's uh $10 and $0.99.
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So, first of all, the unboxing experience is interesting.
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The phone actually ships exposed in this open-faced cardboard box, which is unique.
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I don't think I've ever seen that before.
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But, then actually getting the rest of the way into the box was kind
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of unintuitive and difficult to be honest.
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I had to rip some cardboard to get to these fasteners behind the phone
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holding it in and untwist those.
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Didn't feel very premium, but I suppose that's forgivable at this price.
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And then there is no charger or cable included in the box.
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And while it's a rare 2026 phone that does have removable batteries,
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there's also a tool required to open the back
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and replace them and that's not included either.
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Thankfully though, it does actually come with enough juice from the factory to just
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fire it up out the box.
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>> Want to play with us?
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Let's do this.
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>> So, the phone itself is definitely on the big side, but not too big.
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We've seen phones like this before.
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It's roughly the same size as a Nexus 6, a little bit smaller actually.
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Uh but this phone must clearly be some type of minimal phone
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because it's actually rocking a 1.7-in black
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and white display up here.
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And despite this antenna up here at the top, there are no cell radios,
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no internet connection, no cameras at all, and exclusively physical buttons.
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It doesn't even have Bluetooth, which in a Blu phone,
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you'd think maybe it would.
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But, you know, I do know a few people in real life
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that are trying to use their phone less by switching to a minimal phone.
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And that makes sense,
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but you look at the minimal phones these days
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and they all still have these huge touchscreens
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and cameras and internet connections
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and apps.
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Cowards.
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So, yeah, this Bluey phone, it takes us to the next level.
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When you type numbers on the Bluey phone, instead of making any phone calls,
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it just says the numbers out loud to you.
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>> Six.
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Seven.
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>> So, that's nice.
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Uh the speaker on the back has three volume levels
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and ordinarily a single rear-facing speaker wouldn't be
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that nice,
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but the grill and the opening are more than big enough to ever accidentally
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block it with your fingers,
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so that's thoughtful design.
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It also does have a few games built in,
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which might sound counterintuitive for a minimal phone,
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but these are much healthier than doomscrolling TikTok or Instagram or something like that.
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My personal favorite is the one where you can blow bubbles by blowing into
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the microphone.
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Sweet.
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Also, look how fast this boots up.
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This is power.
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>> Want to play with us?
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>> Already on.
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So, one of the fastest booting phones.
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Bubbles right there.
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Okay.
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>> Now it's your turn.
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>> Now it's my turn.
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>> You did it.
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>> I did it.
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It also has a chat feature built in,
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which again might sound backwards for a minimal phone, like, really?
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Chat?
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AI slop?
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But no, it's not AI.
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The only person you can talk to is Bluey and Bingo, the dogs.
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You look, I think
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if other reviewers are reviewing this phone up against other more expensive flagships,
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they're making a mistake here.
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It's not going to have the thin bezels
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or high benchmark scores to compete with the 13,
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15, $20 phones.
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I'm not even sure this thing's processor can run a benchmark, to be honest.
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But, as a minimal phone,
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this one really commits to that idea more than any other that I've seen.
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Like, e-ink's cool and everything,
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but you could technically still find your way over to Instagram on the Boox
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Palma.
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But if you have less than a thousand total pixels across your whole display
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and never go above three to four frames per second,
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and also have literally no cameras and no internet connection,
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then battery life becomes weeks instead of days,
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and screen time becomes minutes instead of hours,
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and total doom scrolling is effectively reduced to zero.
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This This is good.
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This is a good minimal phone, especially for the price.
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It's undercutting the competition by, from what I can tell, quite a bit.
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So, good work, Booi.
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Thanks for watching.
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Catch you in the next one.
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Also, check the date.
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>>
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