Great little travel phone. 5 stars overall, based upon price,usability, and battery life; with the understanding this isn't a top-of-the-line recent model release - Max data speed is 3G. The phone was used in Paris, London and the US, March 2016. Network coverage area/signal strength was better in Europe than the US.
Small, easily fits in front jeans pocket, full day battery life (14+ hours), and wasn't worried about it being lost, broken, or stolen. Needed a phone for frequent international travel and didn't want to pay the highly expensive Verizon roaming rates or risk loosing the more expensive primary US phone. Reviewed several carrier and sim card options and went with T-Mobile for the first trip because it gave me a local US phone number that was activated before the trip with unlimited data roaming (data speed was 2G while in Europe) and texts in Europe and other countries, calls were 20 cents a minute. With Facebook and text messaging calls weren't necessary (only made two very short calls). I would have kept this phone and T-Mobile plan activated for myself, if Google Fi hadn't of came out with a better offer two days after I activated the T-Mobile account. Next trip I will buy a cheap sim card in-country (10 euro for 10 days) for the time that we are there and use it in this phone for a second travel phone.
Pros & Cons:
The phone comes with screen protector installed, headset, and micro-USB charger - big plus to use the same USB cable as other devices. Added 16GB microSDHC Flash Card. WiFi range was good and easy to set up. The camera is adequate for Facebook and other online social media; it will not impress anyone or replace your pocket camera. Screen is hard to read in direct sunlight, fine in low light, clouds, or inside. As mentioned the max data speed is 3G, 2G when international roaming was due to the T-Mobile plan - buy a sim in country for 3G service. I found that 2G was adequate for most needs (updating locations with Google Maps & downloading webpages), posting camera photos to FB was a little slow, adding photos when sending text messages could take an hour. Internal memory is limited, (2GB) be sure to install downloaded applications to the sim card when possible. Used an external battery pack twice at the end of very long days (16+ hours) when we we uploading the day's photos while having late dinner.
Overall great little phone, loved the small size and long battery life.
Customers also viewed these products
Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
It's crap.
Don't buy this. It's slow and here is a picture I just took with it.UPDATE: I bought this July and threw it away in September. I should have returned it, but waited too long. RCA is good for phonographs. Not phones.
