Verizon Prepaid - Moto G4 Play 4G LTE with 16GB Memory Cell Phone - Black (Verizon)

First thing's first - this is for Verizon prepaid only. It can't be used on GSM providers, at least, not 100%. Some intrepid people have tried, I guess. This is a nice device, and the price is good. Sure, there are "edgier" and more fancy phones out there. This thing does 99% of what it needs to do, and does it fairly well. It will last at least a day on a charge, and is a decent machine. No, it will probably not play the latest, greatest, fanciest games all that well. That's not what it's meant to do. It's meant to be a good phone first. It should play games that aren't super high end pretty well. For really intense games, it will probably choke up. I don't game on the phone, though, so I don't care. For puzzle games, etc., I'm sure it's fine. The screen is good (even in sunlight), and is of decent size. Actually miss slightly smaller ones, but this one is mostly usable with one hand. It runs pretty smooth with 2GB RAM. Web browsing is decent, and it flips between a few apps pretty well. Time will tell, but the battery does seem to be good, as reviews say. Takes a long time to charge up, though, so it will need to be an overnight kind of thing which I'd bet most people do anyway. With medium use, it looks like it will easily last a day. If it ever gets Android 7.x, there are even more battery optimizing features built-in, so that would be really nice. Not holding my breath, but the word is that it should get 7.x in the near future. Overall, I'm pretty happy with this device. It is a nice upgrade from last phone. It is smooth running, long running, surprisingly lighter than I thought, and I'll get used to the slightly larger size. Makes reading a little easier anyway. Pros: - It's a good mid-range phone. - It runs smooth, and doesn't seem to get hot - The camera is OK. It should do well enough for random pictures. - It runs Android 6.x - and *should* get 7.x, but we'll see. - Long battery life. Much nicer than many other phones out there, especially in this price range - Price - you simply can't beat it for what you get - SD card slot. Easy to add a card for storing pictures etc. - Removable battery. What a nice thing to see. Not sure if replacements are out, or ever will be, but it's nice to see the choice - Moto notifications. Very used to these. Very convenient. - Very little "bloat" or junk. Nearly "stock" Android with no weird extra "skins" or other things that get in your way. The very few "Verizon" apps can be ignored or disabled if you want. - It's a Moto, even if Lenovo bought them out. That means it has a good radio chip in it. That means it probably has better reception than a lot of other brands, and that still matters in some places. Cons: - It's not the "best" phone in existence, it's a "mid-range" device. It's still better than a lot of others. - It doesn't have a 1080p or higher screen resolution, but the pixels are so small that the human eye can't see them anyway. - It doesn't have some features, such as NFC, or a fingerprint reader. Oh well. - It doesn't make you breakfast, but it could probably help you order food online. -...biggest con... it has a Snapdragon 410. This is already at least a yr. old chipset. It's not the latest. It's not the fastest. It is what it is. This one isn't great, but it's also not horrible by any means. It's efficient, and it handles "regular" things decently. It's an OK compromise for good battery life and usable performance. Overall - you can't beat this thing for the price. If you want to use it with another carrier, get the "unlocked" one. If you have Verizon (prepaid) and don't expect to need it on another provider, this is a great value, and it doesn't disappoint.

i had a galaxy j1 for verizon pp but kept running out of space and had to keep deleting apps (even though i had a 32 gig micro sd card). some apps could not be moved from internal storage. the sales associate steered me to this phone, which had just become available. not only did it have more available on-board storage, it has expandable (so i could still use my sd card) storage, a removable battery (hello galaxy 7), but it cost less than others that verizon pp offers. verizon probably doesn't make much $ from we who use pre-paid and hopes that we will go over our allotted data, which might be why they offer few phones, but this really is a great phone. display is gorgeous, bettery is very good as is sound. very little bloatware compared to other verizon phones. seems sturdy and just the right size. i don't shoot many pix w/ my phone, but the few i have came out very well. this is probably the best phone at this price. the few features i missed, i was able to find apps for- like a notification light for messages. it syncs up to all of your google apps. even after 1 month i still find something new and cool about this phone. so glad i bought it.

I got the Motorola "Moto G4 Play" phone with Verizon carrier. This phone was for sale in the "prepaid" phone section of the cell phone department and it came in a box. This phone is big with a nice clear and bright desktop/screen. I like the numerous ring tones and sounds too. What I really needed it for was to book hotels for our annual road trips. The Best Buy tech set it all up for me at the store and then instructed me on how to use it. He was very nice and helpful; I needed that. I needed a case/cover for it too because I can be clutzy and fortunately he had a nice Incipio one for it. Ask for that if you are afraid of dropping your phone! I also got a glass protector for the screen and I prefer to use a stylus with it as well. As you can tell, I'm not very tech savvy but I can see its got Android operating system and a Lenovo/Motorola maker. One feature I really like is using your home wifi with it to avoid using up all the Verizon data. Even so, I did get a decent $40.00 a month pay as you go deal. So, overall the phone looks nice, sounds great, and it was on sale too at almost half off at Best Buy so look for a deal on it.

THE PHONE: When it comes to phones I really don't need something that is high powered with a lot of storage. I use my laptop and tablet for all that stuff and I use my trusty vintage ipod for music. I also live an active outdoor life so breaking my phone is not unlikely. What I want is a reliable cheap smartphone I can use to; tether, check emails, take a photo here and there, use banking/payment apps that make my life easier as a business owner and of course make phone calls. This phone handles all those tasks well and has plenty of memory for what I need. It also looks really nice but don't be fooled it is constructed cheaply as it should be because it is cheap. What I love about this phone is how long the battery lasts. So like I said, I am not sitting around watching movies on my phone. What I really wanted is a phone that I didn't have to worry about plugging in every couple of hours so I didn't miss a business call. The battery lasts over 24 hours without plugging it in, which is awesome for me. The phone also takes pretty good photos. The one thing I don't like is that I feel the speaker could be louder. VERIZON: I purchased this phone when it was on sale for $40. I wanted to put it on my post paid verizon plan so I bought a month on pre-paid ($45) with a different phone number so I didn't have to mess with my plan. Then I took it into Verizon, got a new sim card for 83 cents and put the pre-paid phone on my post paid plan with my original number. I finally figured out how to get a new smartphone on my post paid plan for under $100 and I am really happy with it.

Bad news first: The idea of being able to only save contacts to email backups or email clouds like gmail makes usage of contact requiring apps like whatsapp very useless. It can hardly find any contact I have saved on the phone. People have to text me from theirs before I can secondarily save as whatsapp and other app contacts. Motorola seemed to have worsened since they sold out ot Lenovo, because just like IBM everything Motorola seems to trying to be exclusive when it doesnt wash... All android devices have one particular USB port making it easy for you to have access to a cable by sharing someones even if you lost or forgot yours at home... This new usb cable makes your use of z Play very stupid and It shouldnt have been done in the first place. unless all others are planning to follow suit which they havent done. because even Apple that stand unique has many users hence you can find 5 out of 10 people around you to help you with a cable when yours is lost. And lenovos refusal to create an AC head with USB cable like other phones and rather opting to make it a full locked in charger was a stupid Idea. Now I have to google out store to try find z play cable , z play this , z play that... thats wak.... Finger print Idea very nice and cool .... longer lasting battery very nice a nd cool ... the inability to opt for permissions as to which SD card to install apps on makes this phone annoying again... cos the 128 GB Iput inside is standing alone somewhere whiles the 32 gb internal is filling app... do i have to waste time to one at a time move files and folders to sd card manually?.....

So far this phone is great. The pictures that I have taken are really nice, I have good service (even not bad inside my home), once I figured it out, setting up contacts wasn't bad, and texts come through well (which was becoming a problem on my "dumb" phone). Wish instruction manual was included in the box or at least the minimum. I also wish that there was notification on who has texted me on the screen. I leave my phone in my toolbox (which I'm not supposed to do, lol) and with my old "dumb" phone, any text messages I received would show on the screen. I will say that prepaid is much, much less expensive than a regular cell phone if you don't need much 4G data (which I don't). With Verizon prepaid I have 3G's of high speed data and then it throttles back. I don't stream anything and just do an occasional internet search so 3G's are fine. The service is a flat $40 per month plus tax - no extra fees that ran my postpaid plan up close to another $10 per month. Plus I was able to keep my phone number when I went to prepaid. I was a little upset with Best Buy as my store would not activate my phone in store because I bought it online. I don't think it should have mattered - the phone was purchased from Best Buy, they just didn't have this model in the store at the time of purchase so the purchase was made from Bestbuy.com. I would definitely buy this Motorola Play again.

So far this phone has surprised me! It isn't too big for my small hands to use. I am using this for my business and so far so good. I need to check my e- mail, social media and have the best connection wherever I go to pet sit. I need to be reached at any moment for prospective clients and this works perfect. I would have given it a five star, but there are some things that could be improved. For example, the rotating from horizontal to vertical & vice versa sometimes does not work with apps. I had to download a better camera because I take a lot of pictures & like to edit them for posting. One thing that I wish was better was the battery life. It can last a full day, but I have to remember to charge it every night. Other than that the phone and for the inexpensive price it works great. I did not want to have to be on a monthly plan; I like doing prepaid so I am not stuck in a contract. I did a lot of research on Motorola phones before I decided on this phone. I was surprised that the phone had good features without having to fork out hundreds of dollars for a smartphone. I am type of person that does not have to have the newest phone that comes out. I need it for e-mail, social media, talk, text, messenger, maps, and weather. Overall, I am pleased with my purchase.

I bought this phone to use as a media player to carry around and not activate on a cell plan, which I've done with other cheaper phones for a couple of years now. The problem is that there is no way to disable the Google App at all, and while listening to music and audio files, the phone constantly minimizes the media player and attempts to search blindly with no network connectivity. It is more aggravating and distracting than any other phone I've ever used in this way. I've tried everything to disable and remove the Google search app on voice and device connections, but it still pops up continually when the phone is in use. If the phone wouldn't have this "always on" feature I would be very happy with it, but this ruins the whole experience. I can't imagine having this as my main phone and constantly trying to search for things while I try to talk to people with it. And yes, I did exchange it once and the second phone made no difference at all to this search failure.