Very poor battery life- slow downloads- reloads back to the start whenever it wants -but it looks nice
Cons: Did not meet expectations
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Features
2
Performance
1
Design
3
Value
2
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Simply Happy
on July 1, 2016
Posted by: Williamsdd
from Bakersfield, Ca
Expertise:Intermediate
This phone is perfect for my needs. The size is perfect and the performance is still super compared to my Galaxy S5. Whenever I'm gonna be out of town or at work this little guy becomes my companion.
I once had a Samsung phone before this guy called the Samsung Transform. That thing was OK but ever-so... Problematic. Cheap speaker port, bad audio quality, bad quality for gaming, just "use me for text messages and nothing else" type of phone. So I was hesitant to get the S4-Mini when I was due for an upgrade a few years ago. Yet here I am, with my phone that's over 4 years old, and it's doing just fine. It's durable as all heck and the poor thing fell one too many times... Without a cracked screen to show for it (oh how tragic boohoo). It's just powerful enough to run games like Fire Emblem Heroes or display Youtube/Facebook. It can have these things saved in the background ready for use too. The battery life is fair, given all the stuff this little guy can handle, and it doesn't have overheating problems (but can get sizzly if you work it too hard for too long).
The size feels just right. I can leave it in my pocket as a bluetooth speaker picks up what music is playing for up to 30 feet (I think more than that too). I honestly don't know how Samsung makes money if they make these things so durable and practically future proof. I'm sure there are more powerful phones, but if I wanted a phone that could do a million things... Well... Um... I'm pretty sure that's what I'd use my Desktop for. I use my phone for searching the Internet, playing/getting music, playing mobile games, and checking Social Media. I don't need it to do my taxes, find my soul mate, and play The Fast And The Furious 24 simultaneously. lol
Given it's age it doesn't exactly feature the Performance or Features of a newer phone, so sadly I can only give this sweet baby a 4/5 for those categories.