Samsung J3 - Verizon Prepaid

What can I say about this inexpensive cousin of the Galaxy. My first smartphone was a Samsung, and a few in between were not, and all the while, I was wishing I had the old Samsung smart phone again. Well, this is the nicest one yet. It's a big phone for 80$. Probably looks and feels a lot like a real Galaxy. It does what smart phone do. It takes photos, it will text, email, sms photos into emails and texts, make calls, store numbers, store apps. Here are some things I really really like about the Samsung smart phones that seem to be lacking on other phones *coughMotorolacough*. 1. It has a built in voice-recorder. 2. You can use many features without forking over your location, you email account and password, etc. I refuse to put my email account on my phone, and I don't let it use 'my location' ever. 3. You can turn the data on and off very easily. 4. It has a memo app, stock. It has the additional press-keys at the very bottom of the phone, which for some reason I like better than no buttons at all. It's like having the Force Quit option on the Apples. All this said, the phone is a great looking phone, big but not heavy. I paired it with a Zizo phone case, which fit perfectly and looks sharp. My only squabble is that the camera is not the highest quality. But I'm not too upset--it is an 80.00 phone.

Seem to has issues with "storage space" running out..and I do not have much for apps.

Update : the phone has zero storage space. It is so bogged down with pre installed apps. You can't do anything; pretty frustrating. Old review : I love the phone, it has great graphics, but there is one drawback: The phone came with ZERO storage space, was already at full capacity... Otherwise, I would have given it a five star review, even though the phone itself is a little simpler in design than the Galaxy S series (that could be chalked up to updates though). I read another customer's review, and they gave this phone a bad mark, due to Verizon stating that they could not transfer their old number to the phone...Well, I will say that I have had Verizon for YEARS, and decided to buy a new phone. I wasn't satisfied with the HTC I had; I was able to take the old SIM from the HTC, transfer it to the J3 6, and my number transferred without any issues at all. I didn't even have to call customer service. I hope that helps someone.

I have always been a Verizon prepaid customer as the plan seems to be without the problems that other plans seem to present to people regardless of carrier. In the past the prepaid phones that I purchased have a booklet with complete instructions to activate the phone. This phone did not. A long story short, I eventually had to bring the phone to a Verizon store where they were kind enough to do the set up for me. The phone itself is great, but again lacks the instructions to get the phone activated easily.

Great phone! My son broke his phone, so we made him save his money to buy a new one. He looked all over and found a few on Amazon. He chose this one because of the reviews and I would say he chose well. Setup was very very easy. All we did was take the sim card from his dead phone and put it in this one. It recognized the phone number and we could walk through the setup wizard. It took about 10 minutes, and that includes downloading all his Google backups from his old phone. The 8GB space is really small. You will want to buy an extra Micro SD card. The system files will take up 7GB of this phone and leave you no room for apps or pictures. The camera is a little slow for my taste, but I have a Samsung S7, so I am not comparing apple to apples and I paid $600 for my phone. For $77, this phone is fantastic.

I've had this phone for just little over a year. Avoid this phone if you can. So far I've had to do six factory data resets. Luckily I'll be able to afford a Galaxy s9 next week so I will be upgrading. This phone is really bad through, avoid if you can.

It’s my first Android and I only use it for business. I didn’t even know it had a fingerprint scanner until now!! Lol. It’s very clean, battery lasts forever. And, all the accessories I got for that price it was well worth it!

Phone seems OK. The instruction book was worthless. Virtually no help at all in learning the use of the phone.