Verizon Prepaid - Motorola Moto E 4G with 8GB Memory No-Contract Cell Phone - Black (Verizon)

I bought this phone after my LG Virgin Mobile phone's screen cracked. So far I've only had problems with this phone. It was a pain to set-up "porting" my phone number on my own from Virgin to Verizon. This took three hours, and I'm definitely not a newbie with technology. Verizon's website never explicitly mentions how to transfer an existing phone line unless you know it's called "porting." I bounced through approximately four Verizon customer service agents on the phone before finally taking it into a Verizon store where they were of little help as well - They said, it's because I didn't have Best Buy or Verizon set it up for me in the store. That's ridiculous. I had no issues when I bought my Virgin phone and ported the phone number. Verizon's customer service on the phone is poorly trained and so are their store staff. The store staff is only really there to help sell monthly phone plans. My biggest issue now that I have a working phone with my ported phone number is that the operating system is ridiculous. When I swipe to enter my security code, I enter the code and it takes me either to make a phone call directly or take a picture depending on the swipe direction. I can't figure out a way to just get straight to the home screen. Stupid. Super annoying and I have made a few accidental phone calls because of this feature. Another issue with the operating system is that I cannot get the phone on silent for messages. It's impossible. It will vibrate but never go completely silent unless I want it to disable ALL notifications meaning I don't get notifications of Alarms, incoming calls, messages, etc. This operating system will not allow for complete silence while still receiving messages/alarms/etc. It's always vibrating. It's super annoying. I advise looking for an option that doesn't include this operating system. I'm extremely unsatisfied.

I'm using my new phone now. I started my 2 year contract with an s4 that broke, the insurance for a phone is a joke and something no one should purchase ever. Then i had multiple droid phones now I have this. I have 6 months left on my contract and will not be renewing. If I could have started my plan with this phone and never had a contract I would of. This phone doesn't necessarily beat the others but def competes with $400 phones all day for me anyway, i will tell ya why. First, I don't care about the camera. It is still decent for the price, no flash which sucks, but whatever. Next, skins and how the phone displays its homepage isn't nearly as nice as expensive phones, but it uses less battery and really doesn't matter to me anyway. It just takes a little bit to get used to. Finally, I like a phone with a removable battery but I suppose its whatever. This phone is really worth taking a look at if your contract isn't over and your stuck with a broken phone. It does work on a contract which surprised me. I literally was going to buy the cheapest contract phone outrite from verizon which was around 300 and is no better than this. This phone runs latest android and a decent processor and decent ram you really can't go wrong with this phone. It feels very sturdy unlike galaxy phones which feel like garbage crackle in ur hand n get super hot. I highly recommend this phone and never write reviews I would pay the full price which would be 149 when it came out in february of this year all day but 70 is great. I use this phone for apps, internet, email and messaging and it works flawlessly. It does stumble a little at times but I don't think there's a phone that doesn't and may only be because 5.0.2 is new, not the phones fault. All in all if you don't need to have the best phone in ur hand to impress people buy this.

I had a Moto G for over a year and loved it. Never had any problems.. until I dropped it in water. I tried to replace it, but after checking at 3 stores, could only find the Moto E. It was $30 cheaper than the Moto G, but worth a LOT less. Not nearly as many features as the Moto G- not even a flash on the camera. It was pretty glitchy from the beginning, but a couple weeks later the screen would go black- still rings and everything and can talk through bluetooth in my car, but can't see the screen. Eventually it will turn back on- sometimes a day later. If you push the power button and hold it down repeatedly, on and off for hours, it will eventually come up with a message that says "Android is starting.... Optimizing app x of xx... Then it will turn back on for a little bit until it decides to do the same thing again. It's done that 4 times just today and for the last 4 days straight after giving it a break for the last 2 weeks. Save yourself the trouble- search as hard as you can for the model that is $30 more and don't settle for this $70 paperweight.

I bought this phone hoping it could be used as more than a basic calling phone. Its specs support Android very well. I experience no lag while scrolling through the apps and after installing a few more apps for entertainment. I love the fact that the phone was made to be durable with the scratch resistant back although I am not sure if there is anything special about the front glass. The screen also displays beautifully vibrant colors. The screen resolution is not insanely high but enough to provide crispy clear pictures, unlike other low budget phones. The camera also takes decent pictures despite the lack of flash. It is also worth to note that this phone works for both Verizon CDMA and regular GSM which makes it a very good world phone for traveling (a simple trick may be required to fully enable the GSM capability and can be easily found on Google). Overall, a very nice purchase.

After buying two phones for myself and girlfriend we both had them activated with 1gb of data because we use WiFi at home. On the way home my data was used up without me even using it and my girlfriends phone showed nothing. then in the following weeks the phone takes pics and videos in my pocket and when i unlock the screen I find 30-80 black photos and videos. Then also when the screen is locked the phone sends random messages to people I don't know. This phone is Defective and is going back to Best Buy. I just hope they can transfer my phone numbers to the next phone

Great buy if you're looking for a contract-free Android device for Verizon LTE. The phone ships with Lollipop 5.0.2 installed and has great reviews everywhere. I bought this to test out Verizon and was hoping it would be unlocked and possibly compatible with GSM but it isn't. Not a dealbreaker because it does exactly what I wanted it to do. You can activate it on any Verizon MVNO. The only thing it doesn't have which I wish it did is NFC. The model on this phone is XT1528 and it is almost pure Android. There are few Motorola and Verizon apps but not many. This is probably the best deal going for a non-contract Verizon Smartphone for under 100.00. You can activate it on postpaid - just Google it and follow instructions. If you activate on Verizon prepaid you are married to that for about six months. I activated on PP with no issues.

So I was in between a rock and a wet place and my a5 decided to take some swimming lessons and never recovered. I went looking for any options what so ever to replace my Verizon phone. Tue staff was super helpful and when we looking at all my options(which were few) and I was 18 months from an upgrade and 6 months from going to edge. Plus I was waiting on some calls for interviews so I had to have a phone. This was recommended that I could by this phone and take to the corporate store and it could be activated onto my 2year account. Man did it work flawlessly. I actually didn't need to go the verizon corporate store. When I called to activate it they were about to program the sim card and phone and link it im. The phone is fast and everything worked perfectly it so far. Thanks to all the guys at Best Buy that really saved my rear end.

I just purchased this prepaid phone directly from Verizon on April 26th 2015 for $100. I wished I had seen this offer from Best Buy for $30 cheaper. This is my first 4g phone and I love it! I am a total novice and the Android OS is very intuitive and easy to learn. The relatively large touch screen (larger than an I Phone 5) has great resolution. I downloaded a few HD wallpapers that just DAZZLE on this display. Unlimited text/call and 1 GB data for $45/mo. If you allow them to Auto Pay through a credit card, they increase your data to 1.5GB/mo. No contract!