I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago that I was having an issue with the mobile data not working on my Tracfone Samsung J7 Crown phone. Instead of trying to work out the problem through Tracfone's customer service, I chose to get a new phone (LG's K31 Rebel phone). I got the two phone package deal from HSN for $100 ($90 after my $10 off coupon), since sold out. I keep two phones, one is my primary phone, the other is my "Batphone." The LG K31 Rebel is currently on sale at QVC for $60 with free shipping. Item #E234742.
My past two phones have been Samsung phones, before that my phones were LG and I really liked them. For whatever reason, I really like LG and it's been nice returning to that brand again.
The K31 Rebel is a smaller phone. I haven't had a phone this small in quite a few years now. My life isn't based around my cell phone, so I think the smaller size will be fine, although I do miss a larger phone a little bit. I know some people prefer a smaller phone and it seems like smaller phones aren't always easy to find nowadays.
This phone has some different features compared to previous phones. I'm more of a simple minimalist, so I have to figure out how to get around certain things. For instance, a type of lock screen(?) comes up and you have to swipe around in a horseshoe shape to get to where you want to go. I don't like this and will look in the settings to see if there's a workaround. I changed the settings to put the buttons back on the bottom of the screen, before that there was swiping around to do what you wanted to do. There was also a screen to the left of the home screen that had a lot of "garbage" in it, news articles and different things that I really don't care about. I like minimal bloat on my phone.
The screen is nice, it's shiny, which sounds dumb, but I feel it's shinier than my previous phones' screens. We'll see what happens after I add a screen protector. The picture is crisp and clear to me.
I've made several lengthy phone calls on it and the call quality is good, as is the cell reception.
I like the ability to loop screens.
I like the Knock Knock feature.
I missed little things like that in my Samsung phones.
I haven't used the camera yet, but checked to make sure it worked and it looked fine. I don't take a lot of pictures with my phone (I'm a heavy user of my iPod Touch and iPad).
The battery life seems pretty good, so far. The battery is non-removable, as is common nowadays.
The sound is...okay. I think it's what you'd expect for this level of phone.
There's a slight lag at times using some apps.
I didn't care for the wallpapers that came with the phone. They usually include some nature-based wallpapers and there are none with this phone. I know I can change the wallpaper to whatever I want, but it was convenient to find a native one and be done.
All in all, I'm happy with this phone (and also happy that my switchover process went smoothly for both phones) and it was certainly worth $45 per phone for 1500 minutes, 1500 texts, 1.5GB of data, and a year of service.
If anyone else has an opinion I'd love to hear about your experience with this phone. Thank you for reading.
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