BLU Studio 5.0 S II

  • Released 2014, February
    155g, 8.3mm thickness
    Android 4.2
    4GB 1GB RAM storage, microSD slot
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  • 5.0"
    540x960 pixels
  • 8MP
    1080p
  • 1GB RAM
    MT6582M
  • 2000mAh
    Li-Ion

BLU Studio 5.0 S II - Specs

Network Technology GSM / HSPA
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 1900 - D572a
  HSDPA 850 / 2100 - D572i
Speed HSPA 21.1/5.76 Mbps
Launch Announced 2014, January
Status Available. Released 2014, February
Body Dimensions 145 x 70.9 x 8.3 mm (5.71 x 2.79 x 0.33 in)
Weight 155 g (5.47 oz)
SIM Dual SIM (Mini-SIM, dual stand-by)
Display Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.0 inches, 68.9 cm2 (~67.0% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 540 x 960 pixels, 16:9 ratio (~220 ppi density)
Platform OS Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Mediatek MT6582M (28 nm)
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU Mali-400MP2
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 64 GB
Internal 4GB 1GB RAM
Main Camera Single 8 MP, AF
Features LED flash
Video 1080p@30fps
Selfie camera Single 2 MP
Video
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Comms WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth 3.0
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
Radio Stereo FM radio
USB microUSB 2.0
Features Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity
Battery   Removable 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 14 h (3G)
Misc Colors White
Price About 120 EUR

BLU Studio 5.0 S II - User Reviews

  • The phone has its pros an cons. Interestingly I bought two of these last year. One was for me and one for my husband. We both had different experiences. PROS. Charges quickly. Keeps good charge (we play radio or music for hours and the charge does not run down quickly Takes nice pics Browses the internet quickly. Light weight Fancy looking CONS Poor memory. After downloadinga few apps you get stoerage full message. Even if you use a 16g memory card and you can see that you have used less than 2g. Changing the downloads destination has no effect you still get the message External Speaker stopped working within 2 months I therefore need headphones to listen to music, radio and videos. Whatapp and other Apps do no notify you on the screen as to how many messages you have waiting or if you have any messages at all. You must open the app to see if you have messages. Had to uninstall Facebook and one mobile market as soon as I installed them. Seemed like these apps were also messing with memory I like the phone but have to monitor what I download because of the memory issue and I miss many calls because the phone does not ring (external speaker gone). My husband is justa call and text/WhatsApp person he simply loves his phone

  • I cant wait for new phone. I have this phone year and a half and I can say its awful. 1. Snapchat filters doesnt working. 2. Also I cant install most of the apps. 3. Some popular games doesnt last long, maybe after some times their data delete by phone. (Minecraft, Crossy road..) 4. Memory is also awful. Only 4 GB internal storage??? Only kinda good thing is camera nothing else. Sometimes my photos got deleted and it says "Cannot generate thumbnail" I mean PLEASE, I had such a great moments and most of that moments pictures got deleted. And its really stupid because its 4.3 jellybean version, and not 4.4. Thats why most of apps cant be installed and why snapchat doesnt have filters.. BUY EVERY PHONE EXCEPT THIS ONE !!!

  • My baby sister has this same problem... Daddy bought her a blue studio 5.0 S ll ... It worked for a little over two weeks and shut down... Daddy bought a new battery for my sister and yet it don't work .. Its really unfair please help us get back a phone for my sister or a refund ... This phone was purchased at bmobile in princes town at JDS super center... Cost price $1000.00 plus the battery $175.00 .. Help needed...

  • This phone is p-ing me off so bad right and for the last week. My problem with this phone has happened more than once now. A little message pops up saying "unfortunately, google play has stopped." "unfortunately, OneDrive has stopped." "Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped." Unfortunately Picasa uploader has stopped." and it says that for several other apps on my phone, and one being setting, and Launcher(opens apps an everything else). It also likes to freeze one every now and then, So someone please tell me what to do.? I've tried resting, rebooting, and turning it off &on. This happens none stop, so I barely get to even use my phone like I need. It's hard to text or call anyone when those messages keep popping up right in the middle of the screen every second. I really don't want to have to buy a new phone, but its making me mad enough that I might because I can not stand this any long. AND THE SPACE ON IT SUCK!

  • I have had this nice phone for about a year, though providers in Uganda do not use W-CDMA 2100 for 3G, i am having a good time using 2G. The phone is super nice for that price! YES!!!!

  • Yo I've had this phone for a good year & and half now and it has been so much better than the lot of other phones I've looked at in this price range. I haven't had any trouble with it besides running out of space for apps but the camera is is good, if i had any issues with the design, like if I didn't like it, I'd just download an app to make it look better. No biggie. I haven't had any issues I couldn't fix.

  • This phone stinks!!! It won't let people leave a voice mail, i have almost nothing on it yet the storage is "too full" to download most apps. I can't seem to get my pictures off of it and onto my computer. Texting is horrid, it keeps dropping the area code, then I have to resend, there is no instruction booklet, and I cannot find anything on the web to help only reviews! My review...buy something else!

  • Don't know why am not able to download anything from play store cause I have a 4g SD card with only a few song and pictures and its telling me I don't have enough space to do so I can't even update my apps

  • @sankar sorry but u will not get 3g on your blu studio sii as the d572a supports only 3g as from 800 to 1800 and most service providers use the more preferred 850 to 2100... u should have bought d572i version of it instead...i have already gotten used to using mine with wifi and edge 😢 cheers!!

  • i increased my ram to 3 gb. u can root it using an app called Framaroot. the download RamExpander. works great

  • the 4g works. it may not label as 4g but it is. i have metro pcs and when my 4g data runs out and i start using 3g i can tell a huge difference in speed

  • try to find a case pal.You are outta luck there.

  • yes. i tried both the slots.

  • i had blu studio 5.0 sii d572a. it is not working with 3g speed. even i have changed the sim in both the slots. the first slot noted by gsm/wcdma and the second slot noted as gsm. i have idea sim and it supporting 3g. (i tried with samsung fame gts6812, it works ok by 3g). but in my blu studio it is not working. even i have selected the sim to 3g, searching the network mode manually and all the service provier (ie) airtel, aircel, vadafone, tata docomo etc., are shown only 2g. i tried the apn settings correctly by manually with the use of new apn setting. but no improvement. anybody can give me a solution to get 3g speed in my blu studio 5.0 sii, d572a

  • how do to buy?

  • Did you try putting sim in slot 1?

  • Love my Phone

  • i got blu studio 5.0 sii recently. it is not working with 3g speed. itried with idea, airtel and aircel sims. i have tried by selecting the network operator by manually but all the network shows only 2g. i have changed the mode to gsm/wcdma and gsm only. but only 2g is working. any one can reply and give the right solution. in my area 3g is available. sankar tirupur india

  • I'm looking into buying this phone, how is the battery life? My iPhone dies SOO fast.

  • I got the cell phone, just for one reason, in all reviews including here, it says it has a gyroscope, which it seems it doesn´t have, I installed sensor kinetics and it says no gyroscope found on the phone. SO FOR THE RECORD: THIS CELL PHONE DOES NOT HAVE GYROSCOPE SENSOR

  • does anybody have a problem when sending messages that it deletes the area code and sends it to another number?

  • Why dont my video call work

  • Could you give me a more brief description on how to do it please?

  • that is easy , just tipe in google the song you want and then put " mp3 " that's it

  • How to download music?

  • Does anyone know how to download music for it?

  • Nope this phone will not receive the android l update. It doesnt even have KitKat. Blu hasn't been known for updating there phones sorry. But it is a decent phone.

  • Sorry . my question is : the screen and mica SII Blu Studio 5.0 supports the BLU Studio 5.0 S II D572a ?? I doubt for reasons of all numbers that they poseen..Necesito said infformacion to repair .. It's important to be sure that I will get what I need to buy it .. thanks

  • you need more RAM. some games no working good for the poor RAm in this phone (500mb) .

  • you need more RAM .you need buy other phone with more RAM

  • i have blu 5.os11 i bought it in July of this year and now it is not changing properly it take about a day to change i want to know how can i fix it what cause it

  • my games stop runnning after a couple of days whats causing this..... i might download it today and it works but tomarrow it stops answer someone

  • Dose anyone have a problem with the vibration on this phone? Its a really great phone.

  • same here

  • i hate its easy easy to be damaged it only works with eight and up memory cards it has no space on the phone its self THATS ALL I HAVE TO SAY:BLAZE

  • Wonder if it will get Android L update

  • This phone is awesome. Guys you should buy it before it goes out of stock

  • OK so I took a big chance on trading my at&t Galaxy mega for this phone. I am going to be honest it is actuallya vvery nice and very good phone. It has led me to research the other phones that blu has to offer. I really like this phone and would recommend it to other people.

  • I love this phone so far. Just can't seem to figure out why my video call isn't working.

  • Guys, I just landed in India and did carry a Blu Studio II and it's awesome man. I have no issues with the device, This is simply great..:) To be very honest, I didn't expect this to be so damn good when i purchased.

  • this device is really great, who needs a galaxy with this marvelous phone. OMG my mom has one and I love it!!!!!! seriously it can do everything!!!!!!!!!!

  • OK so my blu studio 5.0 s ii screen flexes where the home, menu, and back buttons are like it's bending downward. Has anyone else had this problem please let me know what u did to fix it or if this is normal.

  • Hi everyone i am thinking of buying one of these phones do u think i should take the chance am confuse with some of the coments But its really nice

  • i just got this blu phone. my issue is i my service through metro pcs. i have calling and text but data connection is disconnected and no one in the metro pcs/tmobile world seem to not know how to solve this issue. other than that i dont have any other complaints. when i reboot the phone it says no sim card in slot one. which slot is one and which is two somebody tell me. there is the gsm slot in which i have my metro pcs sim card and the other slot is empty. it works great on wifi. any help would be great. even if it means going to get a gsm sim from another carrier. any advice would help

  • So I came from the Samsung world and have had the blu studio 5.0 s ii for about two days and so far I enjoy this phone blu has been doing well. I have the same functionality of the Galaxy phone I have owned and in a smaller size. This phone is pretty nice and would highly recommend it.

  • No it does not. One of the things that sort of disappointed me about this phone.

  • does it have notification light

  • Love the phone for two weeks. After two weeks it would not turn on. It was not dropped or abused. In fact did not have a scratch on it. Battery was good but none of the buttons worked. Removed battery/reinstalled...nothing. drained the battery and recharged it...nothing. contacted Blu. They got back with me after 5 days and told me to reboot by pressing the keys...in other words they did not even read the email of my buttons don't work issue. Amazon has agreed to give me a full refund.

  • I have had this phone for a little over 8 months and it was all good up until yesterday all of sudden my battery stop taking a charge, it would say it's charging but it wasn't. I took it to a technician and he assured me it was the charger port but after him working on it for a few hours it still did the same thing, now he said its the IEM and there is no way to replace it.

  • We're can I buy a charger for this phone

  • decent phone but the major problem i have with it is that my wifi strength is always low

  • Wbere.can u find a screen for the phone

  • Why can't I view picture messages on my blu studio 2

  • is there any fault from this phone?

  • What is your carrier?

  • the microSD slot is capable of handling up to 32GB, not 64GB as stated.

  • I had my blu studio 5.0 S 2 for almost 2 months and one day it just blanked off, I did a battery pull hoping it would come back on it powered up and it didn't getmto access anything on the screen cause it remained blank. My warranty had already expired so I had no hope in returning it to a dealer and being compensated a new one. When I took it to a phone to a techincian I was told it was a software problem but unfortunately there wasnt a software available for the phone. So now I'm stuck with this phone as an ornament hoping one day it would come back on

  • yes, 4g hsdpa, 21 mbps; hsupa, 5.76 mbps

  • Just ordered and got my hands on one of these devices out of box its a wow factor in design and feel of the device. Broadens the eyes of Galaxy faithful users when they hear the price and see the performance. I am more than happy with my purchase. Hopefully BLU will release a KITKAT update for this device and soon. PS it uses 1 Mini SIM and 1 Micro-SIM.

  • This smartphone has 7.9mm, NOT 8.3.

  • Phone works great. Its my second phone from Blu Products. No complaints. Glad you can buy cases for these now on ebay.

  • Good phone definitely worth the asking price but the max headphone volume on mine is very low is there any way to fix this

  • If you're purchasing this product on amazon do not go entirely by their specs or even all the specs on GSM because even though it's mostly accurate, some specs have been exaggerated, such as the front camera MP. Its actually 1.6; it seems like it was rounded up. And the microSD slot max is only 32GB not 64.

  • Is it 4G capable?

  • This phone is awesome it's fast in every way and pretty much the same thing as the galaxy phone just half the price

  • No not yet but in the Near Future it will be

  • is this phone upgradeable to kitkat ?

  • I love this phone, bought two price is great. But! Im pretty tech savy & cant get volume to work well at all. We talk and sounds like we are muffled and we hear ourselves talking, Help! Any suggestions? Cant use if dont fix. Just dwnloaded soundabout someone suggested. Will see. :(

  • I love this phone, bought two price is great. But! Im pretty tech savy & cant get volume to work well at all. We talk and sounds like we are muffled and we hear ourselves talking, Help! Any suggestions? Cant use if dont fix. Just dwnloaded soundabout someone suggested. Will see. :(

  • It actually takes 1 mini and 1 micro sim.

  • Can this phone get kitkat

  • Can this phone get kitkat

  • The cases are on amazon

  • The cases are on amazon

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  • Nice smartphone 17000 points on antutu really good, your resolution and display is good too

  • June 1st

  • Can this upgrade to kitkat?

  • what kind of memory issue?

  • the best and so light,like the design

  • phone has a memory issue

  • Sorry I meant strong phone

  • Is it a srong phone? And where can I get cases for it?

  • Omg Omg Omg... One phone I never regret buying... Awesome... Works great... Would recommend this to anyone... :) Price is going up... Get it quick... :)

  • I got one over the easter holiday gone works very well and great for gaming I got my monies worth and the prices are going up on these cause there getting very popular keep it up blu I may just get a new one if I decide to sell it

  • great phone for the price nice cant find any thing bad to say about this device you get your money worth

  • Oh yeah. Specially when playing over 4G on HD.

  • Is the YouTube quality good when you play videos ?

  • nice phone

  • I find it a very nice phone,because its worth the price