This was my first smart device--got it almost two years ago when I was just getting into things. It was great at first, mostly because I was barely even scratching what I could do with a smartphone; I could use Facebook and Tumblr and play some Candy Crush, which is all I really wanted to do at the time. It quickly became an issue, though, mostly because I wanted to actually /do/ things with it. Though the device comes with 4GB of internal memory, most of it is filled with bloatware that nobody ever wants to use, and it leaves you with less than 2GB of it. Long story short, I tried/failed to root the phone, it broke, and I managed to get an early upgrade to an S3.
Don't get this phone if you can.
This was my first smartphone. Its pretty good for its price, but if you want a good, cheap phone then get the Moto G, which is much better and is (or was) $50.00 off contract at Best Buy. This phone's overall performance is just "ehh" and the camera is horrible. You only get 1.5 Gb of usable storage. Well, at least it has an easily removable battery and an SD card slot.
I have had this phone for about two months and it's safe to say that it is a pretty solid, fast and powerful phone. The phones only major problem is the rear camera. The rear camera takes pretty bad photos and the phone having no flash doesn't help. The phone is very fast going from app to app. I would recommend getting swiftkey in the play store because the keyboard on this phone feels pretty cramped. Android 4.1 is great on this device and it's nice knowing I am somewhat up to date with the latest version. I love the phones display, it isn't to big or to small. The resolution isn't the best, but it's nice enough to read text on the browser and throughout the phone. The PPI is great also for reading text, so you know you won't have a really pixelated look to the screen. So overall this is a wonderful phone, I would definitely recommend it to someone who is a first time android user or already a user.
i haven't gotten the phone but it looks pretty good to me. 1.2 GHz snapdragon processor . but i'm not too crazy about the 3.2 megapixel camera...its even worse because it has no flash...im kinda disappointed on that ....im going to swich from metro pcs to Verizon
I haven't had any problems with this phone yet. I wish the camera was better. Battery lifeI awesome. I am overall impressed with this phone. I love that I can get 4G. The internet is very fast and I can have several pages open at the same time.