Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've had it a little over a week now and I'm really enjoying this phone. I upgraded from the Lumia 520 because I was starting to have problems with it (the buttons on the side weren't working any more.) They made some noticeable improvements on this year's model without really increasing the price. Pros Screen size: its a little bigger. I've heard people say the resolution isn't as good, but I haven't noticed. it looks about the same quality to me. This is the biggest screen I've had on a smartphone and its really nice. Build quality: it seems a little sturdier than the 520. the back battery cover can't come off as easily. The buttons have a more solid feel and don't stick out as far. Battery: I get about 2 days out of it with normal use. that's texting, listening to music on it in the car. not any games really. It seems noticeably better than the 520's battery life to me. Weight: this thing feels pretty light to me. its a little lighter than my girlfriend's Lumia 928 and they have the same size screen. 4g LTE: The 520 did not have LTE. I wasn't expecting to notice a difference between 4G and LTE, but loading videos and pages online is much faster. That combined with the quicker processor makes it a pretty useful smartphone. Micro-Sd capacity: This phone can take a 128 GB sd card. Now that is a lot of space on a smart phone. Especially considering how much you're going to pay to get one of the upscale phones that doesn't accept an sd card in a 32GB or 64GB model. It actually seems outrageous to me how much people spend on an iphone with lots of memory when its so cheap to expand the memory on phones like this. Right now I have a 64GB card in it that I paid around $35 for last christmas. I have 2 shoeboxes of CDs stored on it in mp3 format if you need an idea of how much space that is. Cortana: I thought this was going to be a stupid gimmick. I anticipated NEVER using is. So far it has been pretty useful. She is VERY good at understanding what I say. I love using her to find a certain song, artist or album in my library while I'm driving. I've actually had cases where I said the wrong name of an album and she still figured out what I meant. She's great at grabbing me directions somewhere as well. And from what I hear she is basically in her beta stage still and is getting lots of improvements soon. Cons (I realize these are going to be nitpicky) Camera button: I always felt like having a camera button on the side was a Nokia trademark. You have to use on-screen buttons to snap your pictures and videos on this phone. its not a huge deal. As far as the camera in general goes, it works fine. No, it doesn't have a flash or a "selfie-cam", but at this price point I can't complain about the quality at all. touch-screen options: This is very minor, but on the 520 I could double-tap the screen to wake it up. This phone does not have this option for some reason. Also, it doesn't have the "glance" feature where you can see the time and whatnot without actually waking the phone. If this is a trade off for having the bigger screen, I'm completely fine with it though. RAM: Only has 512mb of RAM. I wish it had 1GB, but the quad core processor seems to make processes pretty quick and you really don't have to wait much for loading. Some of the Apps: I've had a couple issues with some of the new apps. The music player, for instance, takes minutes to load all the artists in my music library. it can load the songs and albums list quickly, but artists just doesn't work. I found a workaround for now...apparently the old music player from before 8.1 is written in still. I had to download an app that was a shortcut to it. it works great, so I'm using that until they fix the 8.1 music player. Overall its a great phone. To me, the bottom line is the price. I can't imagine them making a better entry-level phone at this price range. I think the complaints in some of the bad reviews on here seem very picky, and don't reflect the price of the phone. Like the camera. Its a $99 phone...I don't see how they could've added a flash and higher res camera and still had a nice big screen and quadcore processor. For me, having a fully-functional and responsive smartphone AND 128GB capacity mp3 player makes this phone a great value.