ZTE Whirl 2 Android Cell Phone - No Contract (Net 10)

**Let this review be the one you need to decide if the phone is worth your $.** This boils down to what you want the phone for. After the original apps auto-updated, I went from 2GB internal storage to 600MB. Thats about 1/4 left. Not good. I had room for 1 app(Spotify) before I got a low memory warning. Any more than Spotify caused the phone to give the warning and act weird. The message will keep popping up annoying you. With no space to save you have no properly functioning device. It will malfunction. That is horrific! I got the phone because I needed a device for exercise music. I was able to get my Spotify music app on the phone and put 800 songs on my 32MB microSD card. I have about 500MB left right now. This is fine. I can use the phone for music while Im exercising. That was my intent so it does indeed serve that purpose. As for the common consumer, this phone will not serve your needs if you enjoy downloading apps. There is no space and not all apps can be put on SD cards. Theres your issue. If you want a cheap phone just to have a telephone and use it for calling only, then this phone is for you. I repeat, this phone is NOT for customers that like downloading apps. This phone is a phone that will only function properly if used solely for making telephone calls. Its as simple as that. The specs are old, but, still decent. But, they mean nothing when you run out of space almost instantly. There you have it! Thanks for reading.Update** when first turning on your device, before you ever turn wifi on for the first time, there are some apps you can disable to free up some memory. They are the google apps like music, movies, etc. If you disable them before they update, you will save tons of space on your phone. If they updated already, go into the app in settings, click remove updates and then disable. You might get a warning saying your phone can act weird if you disable these apps but it will not. Once youve freed up this extra memory, put a 32gb microsd in the device. This is necessary for this phone. If you want apps on the device, install one at a time. Then move it to the sd card in apps under settings. Do this each time you install something. Do not allow your phone to go below 400MB of remaining storage or it will start to behave improperly. If this happens, hold power and volume down at the same time when the phone is off. Then, reformat the phone and try again. If an app cant be moved to the microsd memory card, get rid of it because it will take up too much space. Because of this workaround Ive found, Ive bumping this rating from 2 to 3 stars.**update** do not disable built in apps. It will cause phone problems. Instead, make sure your wifi is off the first time yiu boot the phone up. Go to PLAY STORE, tap the 3 lines on the side for the menu, go tomsettings and select do not update automatically. That should keep your internal memory free and phone working. Great phone for the money! GREAT!

I don't hate it but I definitely don't recommend. Ever since I got it activated it's been giving me trouble. It randomly decides when I can make a call, it'll turn itself on and off while I'm in the middle of a call, it'll say the sims card isn't there when it is, recently I'll be getting calls and won't even know it because it won't ring and then hours later I'll receive the voicemail that came with the call. Also it'll randomly decide to not go to sleep (even if you press the power button a million times)so yeah, if I were you I'd stay clear

Virtually no memory. I use facebook, messaging, snapchat, the camera, and one word find game and this phone is out of memory. I have had this for only two months and am already replacing it with a phone that has more memory so I can get more aps to keep up with my kids. Also, it will only run on Net10 which is like three times more expensive than Tracphone -- even though it is a Tracphone phone. Weird. I will be happy to be rid of this one. Luckily it was cheap.

Good,but it's sim card was too weak,according to net 10,so after setting phone up,can't receive calls from landlines but I can call them,so had to send another sim card for my area to me.so out of phone for 3-5days till new card arrives in mail&they reimburse me the lost Time!!!!!!!

Have the phone a day and it seems fine but it is TINY!!! I mean smaller than the old apple 3G. Just very taken back by the size.

This was a upgrade for my dad..his current phone was from the 1800s ...so this was a great phone for him to upgrade to a 4g network!a little small ,but hey it works..

It's a pretty standard phone but the screen is very cheap and small. Sometimes webpages don't even fit in the screen. It does work as a budget wifi phone though. Don't expect anything much from this.

Not great. It is ok, but it has a stupid voicemail notification that will not go away.