Amazon.com: Customer reviews: NUU Mobile G3-64GB/4GB RAM - 13MP+5MP Rear Camera, 13MP Front Selfie Camera - Dual-SIM 4G LTE Unlocked Cell Phone- Blue-One-Year US Warranty

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2018

okay so I have been rocking this phone as my daily driver for about a month, and let me say WOW this phone is a beast. First impression was this was/is a beautiful phone, this blue really pops. The Aluminum frame is painted blue to match the back and front of the phone, and this phone absolutely sparkles. it is 18:9 ratio so feels really good in the hands (but is it slippery AF), and it has a great weight. Now the weight is great for me I love knowing that I am holding something substantial, when I compare this to my wifes iphone 7, it is considerable heavier, which again I appreciate especially with the aspect ratio. previously I was rocking a Moto G5 and this phone looks and feels so much better. This is a phone with quality build.

Build: Great build especially for the price as $200 dollars this phone is the champ of the budget phones, and looks and feels like a premium device. button lay out is great and the small details make a difference, like the textured power button and the placement of the finger print sensor. The device has USB C at this price point is impressive. the Screen is only 740P but man I can not tell as the screen is very vibrant. One negative with the screen is that it is a little washed out contrast is not the best; true black and whites are just a little gray on both ends if the spectrum, but color reproduction is great and really pops. The edge to edge display has very, and i mean very minimal side bezels giving the phone a very modern look and feel. but the phone does have a big forehead and chin similar to the Pixel 2. Glass front and back really makes this phone sparkle, but does make it as slick as a wet fish, hold tight it is will slide out of your hand with a quickness.

Software: was pretty much stock android 7.1 Nougat with no bloatware. There were one 4 items that were installed that were extra ETWS, file manager, FM Radio and Sound Recorder; so I was good with that. I have since loaded Nova Launcher this thing runs like butter, it is really slick. I have experience only a few instances of lag when running some games (hitman sniper, asphalt) , but with most apps it is again buttery smooth. Don't expect instant loading it is not a galaxy s8 or iphone, but it is really good and really responsive. It beat every other phone in its price range and the fact that it is pretty much stock android made me very happy.

Speaker: midlevel good not great, single speaker grill on the bottom provided adequate sound (better when cupped- of course). I will say that the speak does not hold a candle to the Moto G4 or G5 with the font facing speaker. but again for a $200 budget phone there will be some items that leave you wanting, Along with the issue with the speaker, there is not headphone jack. I know that more and more modern phones are moving to no headphone jack but i really miss this. The phone does include a usb-c to headphone jack dongle and it does work and sounds good but I miss the headphone jack and I hate carrying dongles. So I am using a pair of Bluetooth headphones and this phone works well with my devices (3 pairs). Bluetooth can been spotty and weak range,

Camera: Well I have a say the camara is not great it is barely holding on to good. I am so conflicted about this camera and I want to like it but man it makes it so difficult. Let me explain. The camera sports a dual camera set up on the rear 13mp and 5mp depth sensing, and with HDR turned on camera yields some good results, but HDR makes the camera really slow. Turn off HDR and the camera is wildly inconsistent especially with focus and shutter speed. when you capture a good picture is a darn near great but it really is a crap shoot and I wounder if it is a software issue, becasue again when it works its great but other wise is is mew! Now the camera does have to feature rich settings that I have played with a little like portrait beauty, Mono, and manual that add alot to the functionality. i hate this camera becasue more than anything it has be conflicted, when it is good it is darn near great when it is bad i feel like I am shooting with my motorola razer v3 from 2003. front facing camera is good again not great, but it is not bad. I do like that fact that the front facing camera does have a flash, but in low light it can really wash out the details.

Intangibles: At $200 this thing is rocking a good fingerprint sensor, face recognition, 64GB on board storage and NFC.

This thing is a winner, simple as that.

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jonathan b.

Decent phone for the price

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018

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So you read that it has a glass back, then you get it and it feels suspiciously like plastic... Then you drop it on the corner from a standing hight without a case on it and fine out... It's actualy really tough glass... That is unless plastic can chip like glass. The batery life leaves some thing to be disired only lasting about 8-9 hours of moderate use. The processor is a bit laggy but not a total flop gets what I need done. The ram has yet to fail me and the front screen yet to break. I sugjest as with any phone get a case since nothing is indistructable, especially in my hands.
Update: it has been about a month now and I have noticed a little quirk that is worth mentioning. It seems that the wifi does not want to stay on unless it is constantly being used as in with a streaming app. This could be my router but Im not entirely sure. Ither way other than that I have dropped it sat on it put it in my pocket with all sorts of scratchy things and this thing still looks great. It runs pretty decent for a 200$ phone and hopefully I will keep it for a wile

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J. Brannon

A great option to that expensive branded phone

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018

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Update Dec 22, 2018: yesterday I got a notice for a wireless update. I checked it out. It was for Android 8, Oreo. The update took a while but went smoothly. I am very happy with this phone and appreciate the OS update, almost like a totally new phone. I continue to strongly recommend this phone. Best $200 on a phone ever spent. I see they now have a red phone too! You can’t go wrong with this phone.

I really like this phone. Early on I had problems with the phone but customer service by way of the Amazon vendor messages got me fixed up. They did offer a phone number to call but issues were resolved without having to call (Thanks John).

The phone runs Android 7.1.1 with an 8 core Media Tek processor, really snappy. The phone sensitivity is very good. I have terrible ATT coverage at my home. My iPhone 5S and Huawei Mate 7 give me only about 50% indoor coverage meaning I have to go outside to take a call on them 50% of the time due to very poor ATT coverage. With the G3, i have a strong reliable signal inside all the time.

From a style perspective, it is very similar to the Samsung S9. it includes curved glass on the front giving a stylish impression. Back case is 'sapphire' or blue as in the picture. I like the color but it seems to be the only option and others may not like it, but really you shouldn't use a phone without a case so I'm not sure what it really matters. The phone does come with a clear 'case' that is really just a cover. It probably wouldn't provide any drop protection, but if you really like the color of the phone you could use this.

if you are into selfie's the phone has dual cameras front/back and a flash on both sides. I'm not a selfie person, but can understand the benefit of having that extra flash on both sides.

Like Apple and other phones, no headphone jack so you either need to use the included adapter or buy a Bluetooth headset of some kind. The audio volume seems a bit low, but more than usable thru the earpiece. In speaker mode the volume is good as is the quality. If you want HiFi, use a Bluetooth speaker.

If you're like me, you have a box of USB chargers around. This phone uses USB C, so unless your box includes those, you'll need to invest in a few spare cables/chargers. Of course the phone includes one, but you'll want one in the car or work as well.

As far as I can tell, it only operates on GSM/LTE networks like ATT, but I did see several reviews from others with instructions for operation on a WCDMA network like Verizon including instructions, but I haven't tried yet. There is a menu setting to prefer different networks and this includes WCDMA but I can't confirm this mode of operation, maybe someone else can.

Overall a great phone and I look forward to using it. If anything changes, I'll update my review but I don't expect any. Would strongly recommend this phone if you are considering it. even though the brand was unknown to me, customer service was excellent.

As for roaming, I can confirm that the phone will work in China and Europe. Make sure to set the proper roaming settings and contact your local carrier before you travel.

Update: After taking thousands of pictures, I would like to add a few photos. As mentioned above, it includes a front camera and a front flash, but the rear camera is great. Sometimes a little tricky to select the mode (panoramic, beauty, etc), but with a little patience, it will take absolutely great photos. See the attached below. Included are an outdoor, indoor and underwater (from inside a sub).

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Laura W

Great value at $199 - until it stopped charging/the mic broke (replaced under warranty)

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2018

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What you get:
64 gigs of space (and no service provider bloatware)
Front flash camera: This takes nice selfies. I have to hold this phone at a higher angle than I am used to, but otherwise good colors, lighting etc
Decent batter with USB-C fast charger (I'm heavy user, I need to charge daily, it is quick)
18:9 aspect ratio: It is really nice to be to have so much screen space and still be able to hold this with one hand (not too wide)
Decently loud speakers (but not anything special for quality of sound)
I couldn't find the above combination in any other budget phone (front flash/usb-c was hard to find cheap)

The bad:
STOPPED CHARGING 3 months in -was replaced for free, customer service was good, MICROPHONE BROKE at 11 months -again replaced for free, though shipping it to the company was $15 each time.
The clear cover that comes with is cute, but not very protective.
The Tudia case for it is heavy (only one available).
The speakers are at the bottom of the phone, and sound gets distorted easily (by trying to hold the phone with a finger on the bottom, which I find myself doing because it is heavy)

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Matthew Dodd

Ticks all the boxes

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2019

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***Updated Review***
**Edit*** I could not, in good conscious, let this review stand as is. The phone was pretty great for about a month and then things went sideways. The headphone function started to glitch out of nowhere. On the way to work everything was find, then after work that same day I suddenly had to hold the dongle cord at a specific angle against the phone itself just to make sure a connection was made. The unit had been sitting on my desk all day and was not dropped, smashed, or jostled in any way. A month later, the charge function started to go to. It would take all day (12+ hours) just to get from 50% to full and wouldn't hold a charge at all. To their credit, Nuu did replace the phone under warranty and the replacement did not have those particular problems. In short order, however, the power button stopped functioning properly. I would sometimes have to hold it for several seconds to send the phone to idle state. The screen function for the same action, tapping the home circle 2 times, is hit and miss. I haven't actually been able to power the phone down/restart in at least 2 months. The only way I can power down is to actually let the battery die. There is also a general frustration causing issue with the camera. While the pictures it takes are great, credit where it is due, the delay in the shutter makes taking decent pictures quite a production. Even when it shows the shutter working to take the picture there is a delay that often results in the subject of the picture moving and a blurry, out of focus, or otherwise unsatisfactory picture. Again, once you get the picture you want, the quality is fantastic. But the steps to get there make you stop caring pretty quickly. The phone alarm function changed my alarm tone on it's own and decided at some point that I didn't actually need the unit to vibrate while the alarm was going off. Even when that function was selected to be active, it hasn't actually vibrated during the alarm in a couple of months.
All in all, both my wife and I are VERY dissatisfied with this phone and have already switched to new units. Save your $, time and frustration and stay away from this model.
**Original Review**My wife and I both got this phone because we desperately needed upgrades but weren't in the mood to drop almost $1K for one of the more "high end" models. This phone fits the bill nicely. The memory is fantastic and the battery life is almost as impressive as comperable Samsung phones. My wife uses the camera for work a lot and the quality of the camera is on par with all but the highest end phones. You will want to use a case to protect it but also because the material the phone is made of gathers finger prints like black pants collect pet hair. If you use this for music or entertainment a lot, I do recommend investing in a decent set of bluetooth headphones as it does not have a 1/8" port but uses a dongle in the charge port. All in all, if you are looking for a good quality but mid priced phone, this is a very solid bet.

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Ovin Ragoonanan

Poor quality, more hype than hero.

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2018

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I purchased this phone with great expectation, this phone was to be be used as a travel phone as it was unlocked . I was initially interested in the Huawei Mate SE but decided on this phone because of the look, some of the reviews i saw and that my good friend was planing on purchasing a Mate SE also. I received the phone the day before my trip set it up and was off. I did not check the data function before leaving home but was disappointed when I did try to use it as it was not functional. I contacted NUU Mobile's costumer service on May 29th and had a good response to my issue but without resolve and communication stopped on June 5th when I sent a screen shot as requested by the technical team. Since then I have not received any correspondence. I finally took the phone to an independent technical service center at my own cost an the issue was resolved.
Unfortunately that was just one of many major issues i experienced with this phone, within days the phone failed to charge but by trial and error I figured out that restarting the phone daily corrected this issue.
When making a call there was always a buzzing sound and persons had a hard time hearing and understanding me.
When operating the phone a loud buzzing sound was always present.
I bought one of the third party cases to protect the phone, I cannot recall it ever being dropped but the back piece of the phone is shattered, even with what seems to be a very good case.
The phone then stopped responding to the charging "trick" of restarting the unit daily before charging, i then discovered that it will only charge when the phone is switched off.
Today was the last straw, I received a call and this time i could not hear anything, look at the screen and saw on icon of a headphone in the notification panel, I was unable to get this off from the settings menu.
I have given up, I had too much, so I went out and purchased another phone, this time one from an established brand. I had great hope for this phone but was left disappointed and frustrated. I have wasted 200 dollars, time and other resources just to have an additional phone but as the saying goes "If it looks to good to be true"..............

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Amazon Customer

Heavy on Performance, Light on the Pocket

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2018

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Month 2 Update:
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It's been three months now since I have had this phone and thought I would follow up on the review.
This phone is still working as intended. Charging is still quick and holds the charge for the day. I have noticed that it drops signals in an area where signals are always low, but high-end phones keep that single bar. So that is frustrating at time. But this is not a negative for this phone, it is something I have noticed.
On 4th of July after the fireworks, I was heading back when it pored and I had the phone in the pants, I was worried that it would soak and the Lithium would blow up on me. I was completely drenched but the phone was intact. I would not put this in a jug of water thought, but if it was to get wet in your pants like the case with me with the rain, you would be just fine.
All in all a very good budget phone or at least for the price, it will not let you down.
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Month 1 Update.
I have had this mobile now for just over a month. I was skeptical of choosing this after having read a good and fair review of the phone on the internet. I took the plunge to get this phone and after constant use, I feel it packs more than enough for $ 200 Mobile Phone. I have been a user of Apple Products and wanted to give this a shot as Apple phone are just going in one direction.. up.
If you use your phone for Calling, texting, Whatsapp, Mail, Light internet Surfing, Social Media. This is a good phone. If you get irritated by why a program does not come on in a split second as it comes up on $ 1000 phone, then this is not for you. This phone will take that additional one second (Literally). So if you can spare that extra second you can save yourself $ 800. Now for some Pro /Con
Pro:
- Stylish Design (Others think its a Samsung.. almost 99 % of the time as long as the other person is not a user of Nuu G3)
- Great Performance for a <$200 Phone
- Bright Display
- Fingerprint Works Great and is positioned well
- Good fit for the average hand
- Fast Charging
- WiFi Calling
Con:
- Take that additional one second for some programs
- If you are playing a video and want to go from Portrait to Landscape, it struggles to seamlessly move. It takes that additional second to get settled
- Pictures can let you down

Verdict: IF you need a low budget phone and are bored of Apple, try this out for a year. You can always upgrade to another phone with the $ 800 Savings

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MoShunn

Best for the money.

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2018

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This is a really nice phone for the money. I needed a new phone and at the time of this review this was the best package I could find for under 250$.
It is a beautiful device and it works perfectly with cricket. You do have to go to the cricket website and follow the instructions on setting up the internet, but it literally takes less than 5 minutes and it's been on LTE since. This phone picks up pretty much all the bands you could use.
Nuu mobile is a pleasure to deal with as well. They sent me the phone and it would not install the wireless update without erroring, so they had me troubleshoot a few things, and when that didn't work they sent me a new phone. It was completely no hassle and easy. So I have to give them credit where it's due.
The phone itself is great. It's snappy, it has a beautiful display, tons of storage, plays games and does what I want effortlessly. Some of the features are pretty nice for a 200 phone, like NFC for instance if using Google pay sounds convenient for you. It's actually more common than you think when you start looking for it..
The camera is decent for a budget phone. You need a steady hand and decent light, but if you can manage that then you get nice pictures. It's at least average or better for a budget phone. I'm not going crazy for it, but it works fine.
The only bad point to the phone I have been able to find is the wifi. It does not get a good signal compared to any other device I own and I literally have to set it next to the router to get a full signal. Going across the same room will drop a bar... So if you need excellent wifi reception, this could be an issue for you. I have a small place and it's okay for me, but it could be better.
For 200 I am more than happy with my purchase and I would buy it again. They just need a proper screen protector, cause using cheap generic ones are not curved and don't look great on it.

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JesusWasAMuslim

• The Pokeballs curve well • USB Type-C charger with a pretty good charging time of about 1

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2018

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The review is for the NUU G3 (Model: NUU 5702L) phone, I used about 140 apps for about 3 weeks (3/5 Stars). I consider myself as a heavy user so it may not be reflective of everyone else. However, below are my impressions of the phone, which has made me return this product shortly.
Pros:
• Plenty of RAM at 4GB. Using about 125 apps leaves around 1200MB available. Over 1GB of 2GB Swap available when starting.
• Decent battery: Gives about 4 hours of screen-on time with Pokemon Go.
• The Pokeballs curve well
• USB Type-C charger with a pretty good charging time of about 1:30 from 0 to 100.
• NFC

Cons:
• Get very hot quickly. Went from 91F to 109F in 8 min in about 84F and sun.
• Very laggy, especially with apps that use CPU power such as Pokemon Go.
• Very bad Geekbench scores at 793 Single Core and 2001 Multicore and 1577 Compute graphics RenderScript score.
• Slow CPU: Mostly stays above 75% usage and goes to a 100% often
• The curved screen: While looks nice, but will not hold any screen protector and you cannot find one in the market either designed for this phone so far.
• The Camera button. Cannot start a video or take a picture from the same screen. You have to go choose the tab for either the camera or the video camera.
• The Camera loses focus a log in videos, sometimes even outside every a few seconds. Takes a second to focus in pictures.
• The people hear an echo of their voice when you speaking using a FreedomPop SIM. I tried many of their SIMS and ran many tests.
• The calls volume is mid-range with too low in loud environments.
• No volume toggle button from the drop-down toggles, which annoyed me a lot as can’t easily vibrate or silent it.
• The compass keeps wanting to recalibrate in Google Earth saying it’s unreliable.
• The battery voltage and mA are not detected by programs such as AccuBattery so can’t see improvement or loss over time.
• The youtube app does not lose the onscreen controls after clicking something in the full screen mode, which is annoying
• The tech support manager didn’t call me back when I told them of the problems

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Frank Rago

Best $200 I ever spent.

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2018

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I am absolutely loving this phone. For those of you that are simply tired of spending $900+ on a phone that locks you into a 30 month payment plan with any of the big name carriers, I would highly recommend you look into this phone. I currently have AT&T and needed a new phone due to purposely smashing my Samsung Galaxy S7. That was the worst phone I have ever owned in my life; it was slow and had a terrible battery life since day 1. Anyways, after being so disappointed in my S7 that cost me several hundred dollars over the course of 30 months, I started to look into "budget phones" and watched a video that stated this was the best one of 2018. I decided... what the heck... $200 for a new phone? As long as it lasts me 1 year, it will still be as effective as one of the name brand phones.

Well, It's only been about a week... and I am INCREDIBLY happy with this phone. The battery lasts me all day without a charge, and when I charge it before bed it still has about 30-40% charge left. (I do keep it on battery saver mode during work, but it still operates great on battery saver). The phone is benchmarked faster than the S7, and it shows. It's a much smoother feel of operation compared to my S7. Also, let's not forget how absolutely gorgeous this phone is. The metallic yet glossy blue; simply beautiful. The screen may only be 720p, but phone screens don't need to be UHD or even 1080p because they're considerably smaller than a PC Monitor or a TV. It has most of the bells and whistles that a large company phone would have, including a pretty decent portrait mode camera (dual-camera).

TLDR - If you're looking for a cheap smart phone that looks, feels, and performs like a big box phone. This is the one to get.

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