Samsung Galaxy Centura Android Prepaid Phone (Net10)

I just purchased this phone to use this with my Wifi in my house to listen to Tune in radio or pandora with my headphones or connect directly to the stereo and I can also use magic jack app with it too to make phone calls. The wifi signal is always 4 bars to 5 bars on this phone so i always get great connection. And yes this phone has bluetooth as well. Since my other phones die too quick i'll use this one as a spare device to walk around the house and listen to internet radio. I didn't have to hook it up to any cell phone service to use it with apps but to use the phone outside of your house without wifi, yes you can activate it with Net 10 Wireless or get a Verizon jetpack hotspot. I was going to add prepaid minutes to it but turns out the one I got in the mail is for the Unlimited Plan only. And I didn't want unlimited, only pay as you go. I will buy a 2nd one. The phone runs slow after installing things, but you have to download a memory management / memory booster program from the Play store and it runs awesome after that. All the apps I have on my galaxy S3 work on this phone. I plan on buying one for each room in the house to connect to my stereos depending on which room im in. The price was only $55 I can buy 8 or more of these for the price of a Samsung S3. Plus this phone is nicer for me because I have small hands and it fits in my pocket as well. Its probably a little bit bigger than a business card but still heavy enough so you cant drop it by accident like an ipod. The phone I received has 2.6gb of space on it. Great deal.

This phone is amazing for the value.It takes great pics and I have all my apps at my finger tips. All except one app that I bought this phone for. The phone has all the requirements for the app but will not work on this phone and it is Ibotta. I do couponing and this will not work. Also it loses charge easily so I try to keep it plugged as much as possible. Yes I agree with others that have given a review. The $25 Google play does not work I was buying songs and it was coming out of my checking acct.

Prior to this I had a Huawei Mercury Ice. I really liked that phone. This one is good fr the money, but lacks a lot of features i loved about my earlier smartphone. There are no indicator lights to signal you have a msg when phone is set to silent, no flash for the camera, picture quality is lacking and it only have a one way camera, not front and back. Phone freezes when I play with certain apps, often. I really wish net10 would allow me to use my Huawei with their plans. Will definitely look for a better phone when this one dies. I take great care of my phones and they are retired way before they end their use. However, I know this will not be the case with this phone. I am really surprised because I really liked my original Samsung phone, it was durable and well functioning (not a smartphone).

Bought this for my son when his Verizon basic phone died. At first he was skeptical of having a pay as you go phone, but as an upgrade to a smart phone with Verizon was a minimum of $100/month, I thought it was worth a try. So far, he really likes this phone. It is fast enough to watch YouTube and he likes the convenience of be able to "Google" things at school. The only item he mentioned was he said that the screen is not as responsive as he would like at times, but it seems to get better after he reboots his phone. Overall, I am glad I got this for him, and will probably get another for his brother.

This is my first smart phone and overall , I like it very much. I do miss having actual buttons to push though and it takes a while to get used to the touchscreen. This phone runs on the Verizon network, which is great because the coverage and call quality is excellent. I left Verizon for Net10 because it was just too expensive. Now I have the same coverage and call quality for half the price of Verizon. Back to the phone: I wish it had more font options. It only has normal and small and I would like it larger. I guess there are apps for this but I haven't found one that I like yet. Also, I haven't figured out how to turn off the auto-spell feature that tries to predict the words that you will use when typing. I hate this because it is often wrong and it will not let you type the word that you want to use without having to try many times. Aside from these couple of minuses, this phone is great. Also, it is not too big like some of the other phones. If I want big, I can use my computer at home.

I was _REALLY_ excited about getting a "real" phone using a pay-as-you-go plan. I definitely did NOT want to pay $40 or more per month for a phone. That's why people like you and me want a prepaid phone, right??? Cell phone companies charge waaaaaay too much, don't they? BEWARE OF THIS PHONE. It DOES NOT work the same as other prepaid phones!! Written inside the box, in fine print, is the following statement: "Note: Android powered NET10 Wireless phones will ONLY work with the UNLIMITED Family 30-Day Plans or the UNLIMITED 30-Day Monthly Plans. Do not attempt to add the $25/750 Minutes 30-Day Plan or the Pay As You Go Cards, these will not work with Android powered NET10 phones." I am REALLY GLAD I saw this before I opened the box, but extremely irritated that this is not mentioned anywhere in the ad for this phone. Looking at the available plans, that means you will have to pay at least $50 per month for coverage for this phone. Why in the world would I do that when I can get a Tracfone for $99 a year? Yes, not an Android, but at least a phone to do what I want. And if I did want an Android phone and was willing to pay $50 per month, I would go with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc., certainly not NET10!!! So beware of the "gotcha" with this phone! You have been warned!

This is my first android phone and I love it. No problems what so ever. Do not hesitate to purchase this phone. For $60 its a fantastic deal. If I had to say something bad about the phone it would be the key pad. I'm a reasonably large man, with bigger fingers, sometimes I hit the wrong key pad. ( Its a little small) But that's not the phones fault. Someone complained that when typing a text, it try's to guess what you are typing, which is true. However if you continue typing the word you want, thats what will come up. And sometimes the phone is right, when typing a long word it saves time. Anyone with an iq above 80 would enjoy this phone for the money. For years I've been saying why in the heck is everyone attached to thier freaking phone so much? Well, now I know and I am on my constantly!!!

I previously had a Motorola Droid X2 (android 2.3 – gingerbread) that I got for free from Verizon two years ago and was locked into a contract that cost me about $80 per month. I only used it minimally from a data standpoint – about 500MB per month. So, I was excited to get an android 4.0 (ice cream sandwich) for such a low price and only spend $45 a month for service on Verizon's towers. But, this phone performs so poorly, that even my minimal needs are not met that well. I was willing to accept that it has no flash (which really stinks because once you get used to having an instant flashlight with you, it's hard to give up) and only an 800 MHz processor. (Sidenote: most flashlight apps will let you use the whole screen as a flashlight if you don't have an LED, but it's just not the same) The bad: 1) Sometimes, when I drag my notifications bar down from the top, I just get a blank screen for like 10 secs before the info is displayed. This never happened with my old phone, which was by no means a speed demon. In general, moving from screen to screen sometimes just lags too much. I'm not talking about doing anything resource intensive either, just going from the text message screen to my phone contacts will lag sometimes. 2) I have had three previous phones that I used with my current bluetooth system in my car. Two of them were not smartphones. This Centura sometimes just disconnects from my bluetooth right when I answer an incoming call. It is really annoying (and dangerous!) None of my previous phones ever did this. 3) Sometimes browsing the web is just so darn slow. I can understand that it will be slow when on 3G, but it is also slow when connected to my wifi router! Why would it be so slow when browsing on wifi?!?! The bottleneck is typically the network, not the device. But in this case, it must be the device, because I will go to the exact same website at the same time with my old Droid X2 and it will load the pages in half the time. I am not talking about heavy-content sites either – just text and images. 4) If you go to some android forums, you will see that there is a bug with this phone that causes the clock to get reset to 5 or 6 hours behind the actual time. I have only had it happen on my phone three times in 2 months, but one morning it caused me to be late for work since I use the alarm on my phone to wake me up in the morning. This bug has been known for at least 6 months. How can Samsung not release a patch in 6 months that covers such a serious, fundamental function of the phone!?!?! Come on Samsung! (There is a community-supplied fix to this issue, but you have to root your phone for the fix to work). 5) If you are connected to wifi, and try to send a text message with an attached pic, it will simply hang on you. You will not get an error message. It will just state: “Sending...” With a little research I learned that text messages only go through the mobile network and not wifi. So, I turned off my wifi connection and resent the message and it went through fine. This is crazy for me to have to worry about whether I have a wifi connection or not before sending a text with an attachment. I have not heard anyone else having to do this with their phones. (I never had to worry about this before). This phone would have been SO MUCH better if they priced it a little higher and gave it a little bit more robust features like a dual-core 1GHz processor and a little more memory. Overall it's not a horrible phone, but I expected it to at least perform basic functions without any drama. I mean, even my decade-old flip phones didn't lag when switching between text and phone screens! If you have a few more bucks, you should probably consider the Huawei Ascend Plus, or LG Optimus Showtime (both Net10 or StraightTalk and run on Verizon towers). They both have 1GHz processors, and have 4-inch screens. I really don't want a larger phone – I am happy with the 3.5-inch screen because the phone is nice and small in my pocket. Huawei has a 3.5-inch phone called the Glory which is on Verizon towers, so I may give that one a shot in a few months.