Nokia 2 - Android - 8GB - Dual SIM Unlocked Smartphone (AT&T/T-Mobile/MetroPCS/Cricket/H2O) - 5" Screen - Black - U.S. Warranty

For $100.00 in 2018, I think this is the budget phone to beat. Let me emphasize, this is a entry level smartphone, but the build quality is great. I have a OnePlus 5 myself and was very surprised how well the Nokia 2 compared when I unboxed it. I bought two of these for my parents at Christmas and they've had no issues with them running on T-Mobile. My daughter's hand-me-down Nexus 5 recently tanked and I just can't see spending much more than this on a phone for a teen. To me, excellent battery life and continued updates is more important than a little extra ram or faster processor. I considered the Amazon Moto e4 or e4 Plus, but those are towards the end of their life cycle and are never going to see Android 8.0. The Nokia 2 is at least slated to receive 8.1.Pros:- Cost- Great screen picture (no its not AMOLED etc... but were talking $100 phone here)- Very good call quality on T-Mobile, have yet to setup daughters phone on AT&T but will update once done- Large batttery- Dual Sim- Expandable Memory- Vanilla Android, not heavily skinned- Update to at least Android 8.1Cons:- Sluggish Performance- Built in 8gb memory is over 1/2 gone as soon as you start up the phone- OK camera

The one saving grace this phone would have is that the picture quality isn't bad... If you can succeed at getting it to take pictures. The battery life isn't completely terrible either. So that's about all the positive I have to say about it.The camera takes FOREVER to actually come up. So any kind of action shots? Forget about it. I've had it take pictures and not save them either if you can believe that. And periodically it will lock up the zoom and exposure, then tie up the camera interfaces and the only way to fix it is to power cycle the phone be.Let's talk music. Every music app that I have tried inevitably crashes on this device. No reason, no warning, no consistency. Just stops playing and that's that. When it is playing it's not very loud either. Something I noticed is that some times taking a picture makes the music app stop. No idea why.This can be a great phone for travel because you load it up with maps and try to navigate and maps inexplicably stops and you find yourself wandering aimlessly around a town/country you've never been in before.There is no performance. I knew that going in but this is an all time low. You can do one thing at a time with see heavy lag, or you can try multitasking until everything you were doing just crashes or quits. The touch screen is very, very inaccurate as well.I got this to travel with because of the dual SIM functionality and that it does alright. But that's about it. Do yourself a favour and pick anything other than this.

It's not that bad of a phone but not worth it. Perhaps at a cheaper price point. The quality of calls are okay but terrible when you use headphones. Also with 1 GB ram makes this phone super slow. I used it as a secondary phone for work, so I wasn't expecting to do miracles on it. But getting simple task done is limited to just calls only.

This is a great cheap smartphone for under $100. Sure it is not very good in the spec department but depending on what you are looking for it might be the right choice.As mentioned earlier the specs are nothing special. It is definitely the weakest part of this phone. From personal experience the performance feels like on par with a Samsung Galaxy S5 or an iPhone 5s. If you are someone who always gets the latest phone, you will be disappointed.I'll highlight a couple positive things that this phone does well.This phone is perfect for someone who doesn't use any demanding apps. Forget about most games. Don't worry though because calls, texts, email, and chatting work perfectly. I see it as the best communication device under $100.I'm using this device as a back up/travel phone. I currently have an AT&T and a T-Mobile SIM in the dual slots. The phone can switch between them on the fly. You can route calls and data between the two SIMs automatically or manually choose it each time you place a call. Most dual SIM phones I've used don't handle it this seamlessly or they make you switch one line off before switching to the other one. The status bar shows the signal strength of each line and also the type of connection (LTE, 4G, 3G, etc...). Keep in mind that each frequency of the radio can only be used once. This means if the 4G connection for each SIM you have uses the same frequency, then SIM #1 will get the priority and #2 will fall back to the next available. The Nokia 2 really shines in the dual SIM functionality.The processor used in this phone is the snapdragon 212. It does not use much power since it is not very high performing. This combined with the huge battery (4000mAh) means you really do get great battery life. I have the brightness set to the max, wifi and bt on, two SIMs, after a day of use (7am-7pm) I still have 75% battery left. This is on track to get me two days of standby, you could probably stretch it if you power down over night or go into battery saver modes.One neutral point of this phone is the storage space. It is only 8GB with about half of that available after the OS is considered, since it has expandable storage I didn't make this a negative. A microSD card is a must with this phone. Get a decent SD card and combine it with the internal storage. The phone isn't that fast so you won't really notice much performance difference between launching apps off the internal memory vs the sd card.Don't get this phone to play games, fly your drone, or for the camera. Get this if you need the connectivity of dual SIMs and the long battery life.EDIT: I also forgot to mention that Nokia has promised continued support for Android 8 and 9 for their new phones that were released this year, the Nokia 2 was included in this announcement as well.