
Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars with 337 reviews
4.2- Camera Quality (55)
- Price (31)
- Ease of use (24)
- Screen (20)
- Battery Life (17)
- Storage (35)
- Memory (33)
- SD Card (3)
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- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great and elegant phone cell for a beginner
Excellent smart phone with capabilities that meet the standards of the galaxy range, beautiful fast equipment to surf networks and make many fun, truly a cell phone to enjoy.
Posted by Ruben2703
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Really supperbe opportunity!
I bought this phone online and I received it two days later. Regarding the quality of this phone, it has better quality, visually is beautiful, works very fast, quality of its cameras is supper and screen Super AMOLED has the highest quality. Battery is strong enough for 2 days.
Posted by Iveri
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Excellent Phone, Poor Memory
Samsung has always been at the top of friendly fluent user interfaces. This phone is no different. The phone works great, has great screen, camera, and has a good battery. Only complaint would be the memory. I would recommend buying a memory for it as soon as possible. Although the phone states it has 8GBs' of memory, more than 7GBs' is used by the system just to run the phone. Wont be long before the phone will not allow you to do anything without it telling you it does not have sufficient memory to run your apps; furthermore, closing your apps down before they can even launch. This includes your gallery. You can't even view your pictures if you do not have enough memory. Aside from the small amount of memory, the phone is great.
Posted by Guille
- Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Choked by Bloatware
This phone has some pretty respectable features and seems to be off good quality. The number 1 downfall is the 8GB of internal memory. It's true that you can expand it up to 256gb with the use of an external card, However, the memory card is only really utilized for storing media. For some reason this phone will not use the card as expanded storage meaning that each time you install an app you will need to go into storage options and move the app to external storage. That is if the app will allow you to move it. I am also finding that when an app is updated all the sudden it shows up back on internal memory. The phone then starts to freeze due to the memory overflow. This wouldn't be a problem if you could keep the phone as it were when you unboxed it. From first boot you only have about 4gb used by the OS. After you connect to google play the real fun begins. All your apps update and it installs the google play apps, music, movies, gmail, and so on. Next comes the cricket apps like Deezer, cricket rewards and so on. Oh by the way, these apps cant be moved or deleted. Also, think your gear fit or other Samsung device will work with the S Health Samsung health app? Think again... You can install Samsung Galaxy apps, you can install S Health, but after that you can attempt to pair your device, Once you do you get a message that says Device not supported. With these limitations I would have to put this phone as nothing more than an overpriced burner phone. At the $100 price tag it cost more than comparable models but hey it does have Marshmallow and looks nice. But they turned off the ability to use external memory as extended storage. So its like a neutered version of marshmallow. In closing, I would not recommend this unless they either allow you to remove the bloat ware or unlock the ability to use the SD card as extended memory.
Posted by CopyCat
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best choice for a Prepaid phone
I am part of that group that shied away from the Apple phones- a cheapskate at heart that loves a phone that I can tailor to my needs. With that in mind, the Samsung Galaxy Sol was perfect in my book. Yes, finding a case for this bad boy locally will be difficult (I ordered mine online) but the 2 times I dropped it without a case, the paint did not chip. There were no scratches, even when it fell on concrete. (Of course I was not risking that again.) Since it is a prepaid phone, I could choose plans for what I need. There was an option to make my phone a mobile hotspot which I snatched up immediately. The speed and graphics were nice, especially for the price I chose to pay for my phone. My fave 2 things I love about the phone are its size, and its battery life. It's not too tiny for my large fingers, and yet it can fit in my jeans pockets just fine. And it lasts longer off a charger than most other smartphones in the market. 5 stars, all the way. Best Smartphone purchase of my life. P.S. get the insurance plan. It's a smartphone, so once the touch is gone you're doomed. But the plan covers repairs/replacement for a fraction of the cost of a new phone.
Posted by RMNola