I ended up buying my phone off Amazon & went with the no contract AT&T....only because I tried T-mobile last year when I thought I found a good cheap plan for $49/month...only thing it used only T-mobile & T-mobile doesn't serve my rural KY area.....have had AT&T so ended up sticking with that...but went with their go-plan....am now paying $10 less per month to have my smart phone than I was paying (even without a contract) for my dumb phone through AT&T. Love monthly plans because the only tax paid is the sales tax...not all the school taxes & other misc charges that were stuck on the previous plan......I can handle a savings of $10/month.......I don't do much so I really get to save it & put it toward things I really need.

I always attach to wifi whereever I go so I don't chew up much data time at all (& I don't do games).....but I'm on the internet a lot.....I have also found that every time I leave the phone I make sure that all the apps are closed & then with task manager, I clean the ram which shuts down between 19-20 apps so they are the behind the seen apps that are running the programs.

This phone was sort of initially set up as an AT&T phone so all I had to do was go to the AT&T store & get the sim card.....lol....they thought they were setting up my phone to access the web.....however it was only set up to access the web through the AT&T wifi.....they didn't realize it couldn't access the web otherwise.....I ended up taking it back in because I couldn't figure out how to make it work on the web when I left their AT&T store & before I got my own wifi set up.

Many places that have guest wifi to connect to have very weak signals for it so sometimes I just go with the 4G which probably isn't 4G in reality.

Yep....my old flip phone was one of the first 3G that could access the web....got it back in 2008 just before the ice storm when I was without electricity for over a week & hadn't purchased my car charger yet....lol. Ended up going to the local police station that first night to charge up my phone which was almost dead anyway when the electric went out. That phone went through a lot in those years.....I left in on the bumper of my truck after changing the tire & it fell off the truck away down the road.....I went back to search for it.....couldn't believe I actually found it a bit scraped up but working. It got to the point it wouldn't stay charged & I couldn't justify putting $ into a new battery rather than putting it into a new phone.

I didn't need the top of the line phones they give with the 2 year contract.....but this samsung phone does everything that all those fancy $600 phones do.....& more than enough for my needs.......so I'm really enjoying it. I do use it so much that I end up charging it several times a day......& with the 32gb micro SD card....don't think I will have to worry about memory forever.....but realized that mostly only photos go onto the SD card.....only some apps function off the SD card so it's not like all can be downloaded there....something it seems like needs to be checked on when selecting apps.

HMMMMMM I don't know what browser came with this phone because I haven't down loaded any special browser....whatever came with the phone is functioning well....I might be surprised what wonderful browser I might find out there.....but what ever came with this phone....it's not necessary to use tapatalk or any other app to interface & post onto PC of any other site I have encountered.....glad....when I first looked tapatalk cost....now it's free.

Oh that's another irritation....some free apps are so loaded with ad's you can't even use them....but most of the free just have non-annoying adds just down at the bottom/top of the app & doesn't interfear with the functioning.....so I go with the free rather than the costing apps until I decide I want something that isn't offered except in the one that costs.....between a few non-annoying adds vs cost......not a problem......have had some of the free that aren't really valuable end up having so many adds I couldn't even function in the app.....uninstalled it & dumped it quickly.

It's fun learning how to access & interface with the apps....there are some really good ones that really make life easy....it's my note pad, my financial accountant, my phone & my social interface & my grocery list.....all in one place.....I am finding that it's nice that it's more than JUST A PHONE because even though I did without those other things they really do make life easier & more organized (something I desperately NEED)