Customer Ratings & Reviews

Long story short, not recommended until the phone gets root; save your $50 - $100 and buy a different phone worth the money. As per usual, these phone companies (in this case, Cricket and Samsung) advertise 8GB of space, but you will get no where near that. Since we're not naive enough to believe that we'd get access to all 8GB of the advertised amount, we should be able to assume that we'd have access to a decent portion of that space for, at the very least, apps. However, upon first boot, you'll unfortunately find that the OS and bloatware that comes from both Cricket and Samsung takes up around 6.5GB of that advertised 8GB. A few of the bloatware apps can be uninstalled, but a large portion of the apps can only be "turned off" but never removed. This may, if you're lucky, open up about half of a gigabyte. However, that said, I had already maxed out all the available space with two days of owning the phone with nothing more than just apps that I find necessary--not even talking about fun or superfluous apps here. You might say to yourself, "It's no problem, this phone can take a whopping 128GB memory card!". And you'd be right; it can take a 128GB memory card (which frankly, is why I even bought it), which would make this phone perfect as is, if only Cricket/Samsung left in the ability to use the memory card as extended internal space--but they didn't, and so you can't! Since you can't, this makes the phone's ability to handle a memory card of that size all but useless. You can put a lot of photos and videos and whatever other files you like to keep on your phone on the capably large memory card, but that's about the extent of it. If you're not yet convinced, you might be thinking that you can just move the apps manually, one at a time, to the memory card. You'll find yourself heartbroken yet again, as you realize that (obviously) the bloatware you can't remove cannot be moved over to the memory card and, for some absolutely unknown yet undoubtedly stupid reason, most app developers don't allow or bother including the feature that allows you to move their apps to the memory card--apps that have no clear reasoning for needing to be on the internal memory at all! This phone would actually be fantastic if it was "rootable": the phone has a beautiful and bright AMOLED screen; it's blazing fast with little to no lag; the battery life on it is amazing (I was able to actually use it constantly for two whole days before needing to charge it). But since the phone is so new, no root has been found for it and probably won't in time for this phone to be worth your time. And since you can't fix Cricket and Samsung's intentionally disabled phone, you'll be stuck with it, filled with regret that you didn't just buy something better. This phone is simply not recommended at all. It's a great piece of hardware as a great price, but Cricket and Samsung have gone our of their way to disable the phone, rendering this seemingly great phone into a piece of garbage. It would be good for old folks and as a temporary back-up phone after you get stuck with it because you were too lazy to take the phone back before your 15 day return period was up. Take my advice: look elsewhere.

Like this phone. It has a lot of cool features. Nice screen, it responds pretty fast. Camera could be slightly better. Internal storage is only 8gb and the factory apps take up almost half of that. Even when you manually send some of the apps to your sd card the end up going back to internal storage a few days later. You will possibly need to have your sd card rooted to your phone. Would give phone a 3.5 rating.

It's nice phone takes beautiful pictures and the speaker is great long lasting battery

The memory is not that great even with an sd card. Camera good volume is loud.

For the price this phone is outstanding. Works well an de has many great features.

This Galaxy Sol is lightweight with very good battery life. The camera isn't as great as others but it is manageable. At a cost of $70 it is more affordable for a Samsung Galaxy device. The smaller size makes it easy to carry in a pocket, purse or your hand.

Small storage but with a sd card installed problem solved. Camera is good also. Im very happy with this device.

Phone is excellent and very snappy. Only problem is that you can't install too many apps as it only has 8 gigs.

I bought this phone as a temporary one to replace my damage Note 4, I ended up using it as my permanent one. This phone have all major features like Note 4 apart from the S-Pen, will recommend to everyone. Cheap, affordable, good quality, user friendly.

A very good Entry Level Smartphone. Overall Good qualities. Pictures quality is alright. My only problem is that its only 8gb internal memory. I do have a 32gb memory card.. But even if I transfer the pictures and audio on my SD card. it still says " Cant open pictures in gallery. Delete some files " :-(

Nice phone for price and for a child. No problems at all and was in stock.

It looks good,runs fast but the only thing I did not like is that they used almost the whole 8gb Whit their apps so you basically end up with a little bit more than 1gb Left for you to use,u can add an SD card for more memory but it don't auto transfer so u have to do it manually.good luck.

I didn't think this would be a good phone because it was so inexpensive. I was very impressed.

Good cell phone very happy with it! I would recomend it to friends

I love this Samsung Galaxy Sol, its so nice and works realy fast

Very nice phone inthis price, sharp clear display good camera

easy to use great internet service touch pad works very good

This is a best Samsung Galaxy phone with 5 inches screen.

this samsung phone worked very well i would buy it again

The item is simple but effective. The camera is decent.