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ranked #200,116 most helpful
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★★☆☆☆
Great Phone, Great Value, Bad Software Choices
I have a love-hate relationship with this phone. First, what I love: Great price point value, 4glte, Jelly Bean, form factor, removable battery. What I hate: 1) Unremovable bloatware like the useless Virgin Mobile Essentials, the Samsung app suite including the awful Touchwiz. 2) You have only 1gb of usable storage on 2gb of internal memory for your own apps, videos, music, pictures 3) Samsung decided to make it IMPOSSIBLE to install and run apps on your SD card, meaning their bloatware and bad decisions interferes with my ability to actually use my phone.
Conclusion: Frankly, it is unreasonable to barely offer any storage space on your phone, make your crap apps unremovable, taking up valuable storage space, and at the same time arbitrarily limit my ability to use an external storage. I bought this phone outright, I did not rely on a carrier subsedy, this phone is mine, and limiting my use of your good hardware gives you a 2 star review.
June 2013 · Cell Phones and Accessories