An average user, who is not looking for a special camera, or a gaming based phone, would be pretty satisfied with these features. The phone will be chosen for all the smart features contained in it, offered within a low price range that is very affordable. But the rest of the configurations are all same. Published questions are edited for space and clarity.The Blu R1 HD Review- The Florida based smartphone Blu R1 HD smart phone comes with two configurations one with an 8 GB of internal storage, and the other with 16 GB. Send an email to or talk to us on Twitter and Facebook. The Wirecutter’s editors answer reader questions all the time (much more than once a week). Going this route would eliminate the Google Voice option (without an additional computer or tablet), but unless she needs to be reachable from the US at any moment, she can just set her US voicemail greeting to let people know she’s out of the country. That’s probably what we’d get if we wanted a $20 feature phone. If she doesn’t use a smartphone and doesn’t want to learn, PCMag’s lead mobile analyst Sascha Segan is one of the few people who still review feature phones and he gave the Blu Tank II an editor’s choice award back in 2015. However, given the security risks of public Wi-Fi, we recommend signing up for a good VPN if she goes this route. The other option, if she can avoid using data or calling while in Germany, would be to bring her current phone and disable cellular features, relying solely on Wi-Fi and using Skype or similar for calls. But she’d have to pay international roaming fees if she actually picks up those calls, so it’s better to just use only the German SIM and use Google Voice for call forwarding. It actually has two SIM slots, which sounds convenient, because she could use a German SIM and still get calls on her AT&T number.
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However, if she wants a smartphone she doesn’t have to worry about losing or breaking while she’s overseas, the Blu R1 HD, which you can get for $60 with Amazon ads if you’re an Amazon Prime member (and is now free of preinstalled spyware), is the cheapest acceptable option. (Unfortunately, Google Voice can’t forward calls from a US to an international number.)īecause your mother-in-law is on AT&T, her phone will work in Germany if it’s unlocked or if she can get it unlocked.
Then, when she’s on Wi-Fi or cellular data in Europe, she could at least get the voicemails and missed calls from her US number sent to her phone, and call people back using a VOIP app like Skype, Google Voice, or Viber that has a low cost per minute for international calls. To get around this, she could sign up for Google Voice while in the States and forward her US number to Google Voice. However, if she swaps SIM cards, calls to her US number (tied to her original SIM card) won’t be forwarded to her new international number (tied to her new SIM card) unless she sets up call forwarding through AT&T, which could be expensive. ( Local SIMs are also a better deal than buying a world or travel SIM in the US.) If she were on T-Mobile or Google Fi, which have much better international roaming, she’d be fine just using her regular SIM. Is there a cheap phone you can recommend? Also, would it better to get a SIM card in the US or once she’s in Germany? Will calls be forwarded from her original number?Ī: If your mother is in Germany for six weeks, she should definitely get a local SIM once she’s there rather than use AT&T’s international roaming, which costs $10 a day. Q: My mother-in-law is heading to Europe for six weeks and wants to get a burner phone.
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