I would only recommend this phone to people who simply do not want to buy a phone on-contract but need a smartphone. It's severely lacking in many respects, but offers many of the benefits of being an Android phone. The worst part about the phone is the way it drops calls randomly. I was using...
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I bought this phone used for $20 and it was amazing for the price, but a lot of things don't compare to other Android or iOS handsets. It's 700 MHz processor was good enough to play basic games, but most weren't designed with it's screen size in mind, so you would run into empty spaces or weird...
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