Replaced three year old LG Rebel TracFone with this phone. Google stuff to transfer data from old phone didn't work - TracFone has its own app that did work. Little bigger, more memory, faster, better camera than old phone. Just what I was looking for. My old LG Rebel was more reliable than my wife's iPhone at 1/10th the price. Hope this one is as good.

I bought this on sale for $40 to replace an LG Fiesta 2 I bought a year and a half ago for $100 (which would have been $200 if not on sale). I fell on my old phone, breaking its screen and rendering it unusable, and did not want to wait a week or pay more to replace it. The new phone's screen is half an inch smaller, its battery life not quite as long, and its camera a slightly lower resolution, but in every other way is at least as good or better than my older more expensive phone. It seems to run faster. I quite like the more up to date Android 8.1 OS. LG TracFones, unlike Samsung TracFones, do get security updates. All of my apps and data transfered from my old phone easily, except for a memo app. The package says that it can only use microSD cards up to 32 GB, but I have had no problems at all using a 128 GB microSD card instead. It recognizes all the space ans uses it just as well as phones that say they can use 2TB cards.

Great clear, nice size, screen! Takes nice pictures! Still learning about texting in regards to texting to more than 1 person, though it does have easy reply texts that come up to use instead of typing a reply, like, "sounds good!" , "okay!" Has a calendar, weather, lot of ring tones to choose from. Easy set up.

I'm not much of a phone talker/texting/games kind of person so I did not feel like an unlimited plan was the most cost efficient way for me to go. With this phone I can purchase minutes/data as needed which saves me a lot of money. Tracfone plans are versatile so I can purchase just what I need to keep connected on all levels. The phone is easy to use and has all of the programs/apps that I need. The size is big enough without weighing me down. It is very thin, too. The price was great (about $40). Tracfone uses Verizon network so over the many years of using Tracfone services, I've never had a problem with dropped calls or roaming. I purchased the same phone for my mother but on Straight Talk's program (a sister company of Tracfone). She needed an unlimited plan for talk and Straight Talk had one that was just the right price per month for her. She is not very tech savvy (at 86 years) but is able to manage navigating this phone. Overall, I am very pleased but do wish that the notifications volume could be louder since I have slept through notifications of texts several time. Also, wish it had a notifications visual signal like my last LG phone did since I sometimes am busy at time of notification and then forget that a text came in. It is up to me to remember to check my phone frequently and since I have a pass code, it is a little bit annoying.

Solid phone, its and LG and this is a good starter phone to start your kids off of. You dont have to add them onto your own plan and the way the phone works they have to learn how to manage their minutes and texts. Or they have to do some chores to earn more. 15 a month for 30 days of service at a time is better then getting stuck in a 3 year contract for an extra line. And this phone is cheap enough to not worry as much about them losing it. But featured enough that its not outdated. If you dont want to buy time on it for a month, its still an android tablet.