It has an extraordinary long battery life, compared to my wife's iPhone. It's a bit large, but has a great screen, takes terrific photos and video, and seems to work extremely well. Android, of course.

It's a cheaper phone than some Samsungs, too. It fit into my budget just fine. I got it from Verizon to replace my old flip phone after we cut the landline cord.

can be had for a few hundred. I never buy new, and am quite happy with my 6S

Don't buy the latest version. Go for an older version that is priced lower but still lasts for years.
It is also less attractive to thieves.

I switched to iPhone after a couple of Androids that lasted only a year. I have my current iPhone for about 2.5 years and don't intend to upgrade. I want to get my money's worth out of the phone.

They are very durable and nobody wants to steal them anymore

It replaced a Nokia pay-as-you-go phone, which I never used because it was clunky and because hubby kept saying it was for emergencies while travelling. We must have had it 20 years.

Anyhow, of all the things the Nokia did not have that would have helped me on the road, a map function was at the top of the list, because I have no sense of direction. That alone would have changed my life -- if getting badly lost in the dark isn't an emergency, I'm not sure what is.

The battery seems okay. I keep it charged, especially in the car.

It seems durable -- due to arthritis, I've dropped it a few times without discernable harm to the insides. I wanted a case with a wrist strap for that reason and could never find one until after I dropped it on a tile floor and shattered the screen. When we went to a small vendor to have the screen replaced, he directed me to another small vendor who carried cases with straps.

On older iPhones for $35.

I bought my used iPhone 6 through www.boost.com. Four years ago for $195. Just replaced the battery for $34.

it's a decent phone, I also bought a TracFone plan for about a hundred bucks per year.

I takes decent pictures, A gig of data costs 10 bucks but it lasts awhile.

I've had it nearly 2 years and have been very happy with it. Paid around $100 for it (Virgin Mobile-aka Sprint).

They will rarely cause you any problems.

Actually branded as a Motorola G5 plus, great battery life (and has a nice compass)!

Samsung J3, it was like 70.00. My husband has had one for a year and a half, it's been fine.

My Samsung Note 10 was free as long as I committed to AT&T for 2 1/2 years.

I checked with my current carrier and Verizon, and neither could match.

but what you buy is up to you.

Get an older 5, 6, or 7 Samsung so you can replace the batteries yourself.


AND STOP THROWING THE PHONE AT THE TV EVERY TIME TRUMP IS ON!

They will save not only your phone, but your TV!

https://www.amazon.com/Oliadesign-White-iPhone-Pillow-Shaped/dp/B018ZR7PGQ

Get a pack of iron on transfers, steal an image of a cell phone, print on the transfers, iron onto muslin cloth, sew a small pillow with the cell phone image on one side. For throwing small pillows would work best so one or two images per page for 8.5"x11" or 5.5"x8.5" pillows would be perfect.

Thanks for the great idea! I do sew, not as much as I did before the macular degeneration began, but I do sew!

And I say this as a still-pleased owner of an iphone 5-s. I want another small-sized phone, so I'm waiting to see if they will introduce one along that size or no bigger than the iphone 8 this year.

But, no, even on a two-year plan, I've never spent more than a few hundred dollars for an iphone and I won't.

That said, I will likely never own an android phone again. I'm sure there are good ones, but apple was smart with its apps and I have invested just enough in some specific professional ones that I'd be unlikely ever to want to give them up.

It is awesome

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I may go out to AT&T and look at an I phone again. We are ready for renewal so it may be less this time.

No contract, nice variety of plans and phones...

https://www.consumercellular.com/shopping/choose/plan

Most of the day. From what I see online, that's not a flaw. It's a feature.

as all my friends have them, I have yet to enter the "smartphoneZone", is that LG and Samsung are the only hardware worth the cost.

Our whole family uses them. Get the most recent model with a replaceable battery if you can. It will be a couple of years old but you can get them on ebay reconditioned at a good price.

I have the iPhone 6 Plus and I can’t imagine needing anything more recent.

Look at it this way. Spend $300 for one iPhone that will last you for years or keep spending money on phones that you have to keep replacing again and again.

Sometimes simple is better.

It networks with all my Apple devices too, so the Ipad will ring if the phone isn't close by and I can have the conversation over my Ipad. Also, when I misplace or leave my phone somewhere I can use my Ipad to find it. Also, its small enough to fit in my pocket comfortably. It cost me $300 brand new.

I had the same experiences you are with Android phones. So far so good with the Iphone SE.

I have the 6. This is -bar none (I've had Samsung, Google, LG, and an iPhone) THIS IS THE BEST PHONE I HAVE EVER HAD! Oxygen is a tweaked Android OS that's awesome! Very close to the pure Android experience. No crap ton of bloatwear you can't disable or uninstall. Regular updates and very good battery life. Decent camera (that's just not that important to me...) also. Great price for the specs too. Good luck!

My tech son put me on to One Plus two years ago. I had resisted a smart phone for that long. I'm very happy with it. Camera is fabulous and even do edits on the phone. It charges fast, too. Only takes about half an hour.

From my own foolishness I broke the very little metal 'tounge' in the plug in to charge port.

I bought a pIug to a wall universal cell battery charger & 2 extra batteries for my cheapo Android. It was less then $25 for all of that.
Yes, I do have to take off the phone back daily, but I cannot afford a new phone now, this has worked well for me for 5 months.

home area, and on buying plans through them I've never paid for an I-Phone, or more than perhaps @$100 long ago, no longer sure. They don't offer the newest, massively price inflated models, of course.

However, when signal strength was too poor at our vacation home to be able to call 911 reliably, I called for advice on how to boost reception, and when upgrading to a newer I-Phone we couldn't afford was the answer, and I explained that we would have to find a service that could provide the connection we needed for medical reasons, they upgraded us to the next level that would work at no charge, a 7 at that time, and we now have the reception we need.

Again, just more input about what's out there.

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Car batteries and acid lead batteries are even worse. Never buy a car battery that has been sitting on the shelf for more than 4-6 months. They degrade a lot, when they are not being used.

Lithium Ion and Nickle Cadmium batteries degrade a lot, though not as quickly as unused car batteries.

My brother-in-law was shopping for a new Samsung Galaxy 8, and I mentioned that, depending on the build date, that battery might only be at 75% of its original charge capacity when it was new.


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Also, turn off all unused services. Bluetooth & wifi kills a cell phone battery. See if you have default apps running and switch them off or delete them.

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When charging phones and laptops, there is a charging counter mechanism that keeps track of how many times the battery is charged, and when it starts to come near a preset value> If the battery life is not diminishing on its own, software will make it look like it is failing so you have time to buy a replacement battery. They do this as a way to prevent the battery from bulging, getting hot, exploding or catching on fire if cycled too many times.

Remember the laptop issue a few years back, where people's laptops would catch fire. That's the same thing. Except the batteries people would buy would be bootleg clones from China that are labeled to look OEM. Many of those batteries were so good looking, it would food the manufacturer supply chains and they would buy them too. Unfortunately, many of these clones didn't have the chip to prevent excessive charges and they would still catch fire or bulge. Let's say you have a laptop, and the battery is good for 1000 charge cycles. If you use it daily, it might last 3 years, if you take it from room to room and plug it in each time, you could burn through a lot of charge cycles per day. My sister would do this and she couldn't understand why her laptop batteries were only lasting 6 months. She would go from the kitchen to the TV room to the kitchen to the TV room over and over and keep plugging it in each time.

People need to drop the battery charge down low, recharge the battery to 99% and then do that over again--especially with Android phones. Short charges or leaving the phone plugged in overnight just hammers the batteries.

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charge it is that correct?

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Some current and most older batteries had was was called memory, where if it was always charges partially, it would remember that level and never allow a charge above it, unless you completely depleted the battery. Even on cell phones, when the battery goes wonky, you can run it until it completely loses power and recharge it. Do that several times and see if the battery snaps out of that state. So, if you phone battery is only as 60% when fully charged, try it out. It might snap a few of the cells out of negative polarity, if they are stuck that way.

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Takes care of my needs and any updates I am missing out on is unknown to me and not needed or wanted.

Walk towards the light.....

Have to purchase a $40 phone card to get the sale price.

I use my phone CONSTANTLY all day and rarely have to charge it before night time.

I also switched to the Google Fi phone plan and it saves me TONS of $$ from my previous plan with Sprint. A techie friend recommended it to me and it has been the best decision ever.

Also, as a side note I would say about 90% of the IT guys at my work all swear by Android as so much better than iPhones.

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge for $300. It cost $800 new at the time. It works perfectly ... knock on wood! I like it very much. It came from an Amazon seller with many good reviews, and a return policy.

my Samsung 7 works fine had it since 8 came out

I've had the same iPhone 7 plus for 3 years.... still going strong.

Charger and connection.
Mine does the exact same thing it will only charge up to about 80% if I and plug it once and plug it back in it recharges to the full 100 .

It's some kind of Android that I got on sale at Best Buy for like forty bucks.

I am not a very sophisticated user, I don't download a lot of apps, and rarely get on the internet with it. All I need is a phone that allows me to call and text.

And wasn't it an iphone that notoriously had the battery go bad very quickly and Apple lied through their teeth about the battery not being replaceable? Among the many reasons I despise Apple.

All that said, there are many different models of phones, and some others here do know what they're talking about. To me the essential problem is that modern electronics are generally far more complicated than they need to be. Anyway, good luck on getting a new phone that works for you and you like a lot.

I never have the newest and shiniest model, but I never have to spend much either because I always buy an older phone. Never had a problem.

charge lasts for days.

AND, the other day I noticed my phone was not in my pocket. I went to my car to see if I had left it there, and found it on the street, a VERY busy Bronx street. It was in a puddle, and had been run over a number of times.

The screen was cracked to shreds.

But...

It turned ON!!!!! I got the screen replaced and it works fine. I can't get speaker phone, and the wired headphone jack is broken, but bluetooth headphones work.

I will always buy LGs from now on!