Blu Life Pure XL with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 800 SoC and 16MP camera announced


Blu Life Pure XL

BLU Products has announced the Blu Life Pure XL, the company’s latest flagship smartphone. It has a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) full HD IPS display from JDI with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, powered by a 2.2 GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon 800 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS with custom skin on top. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, Largan M8 lens, 1/2.3inch sensor, full HD video recording and a 8-megapixel auto focus front-facing camera.

Blu Life Pure XL

It comes in two variants, L260 with 32GB internal storage and 3GB RAM and the L259 variant comes with 16GB internal storage and 2GB RAM. It has 3G HSPA+ connectivity, but lacks LTE.

Blu Life Pure XL specifications

  • 5.5 inch Full HD 1080 x 1920, with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
  • 2.2GHz  Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with Adreno 330 GPU.
  • Android v4.2 Jelly Bean, upgradable to Android 4.4 Kitkat
  • 16 megapixel rear camera with 1.34μ pixels, 1/2.3-inch sensor, Largan M8 lens, Video Record 1080p at 30fps
  • 8.0 megapixel autofocus front-facing camera, 1.4 μ pixels
  • 3G (HSPA+ 42Mbps), WiFi a/b/g/n/ac, GPS, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi Hotspot, micro-USB, NFC
  • 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
  • Accelerometer, Proximity, Gyroscope, Compass
  • 32GB internal memory + 3GB DDR3 RAM (L260) and 16GB + 2GB DDR3 RAM (L259)
  • Dimensions: 150.6 x 75 x 9.5 mm, Weight: 128 grams
  • 2500 mAh Non-removable Li-Po battery

The Blu Life Pure XL comes in Black, White, Blue and Pink colors. The 32GB memory + 3GB RAM variant would be available in the U.S. from Amazon starting May 2nd for US$399 (Rs. 24,000 approx.) in Black. The White variant would be available from May 9th.

The 16GB memory + 2GB RAM variant would be available for US$349 (Rs. 21,000 approx.) sometime in June, including Royal Blue, and Glimmer Pink colors. Both the variants would be available from retailers in the US and Latin America in June.


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