Nokia 2 - Android - 8GB - Dual SIM Unlocked Smartphone (AT&T/T-Mobile/MetroPCS/Cricket/H2O) - 5" Screen - Black - U.S. Warranty

Before i took the plastic wrap off or even turned it on, i was very impressed by the weight and feel of the Nokia 2. Weighing in at 162 grams, she's got some Gravity in her! It feels good.I bought this phone because;I have owned two Windows Nokia Lumia's. before, and both were excellent! (The Nokia 2 being no exception =D)The advertised battery capacity.A "Pure" android operating system.Nokia delivered just that and more!The build quality and feel is beautiful. I bought a white model, and the two tone black metal bezel to the white body is very smooth.The screen, for a 720x1280 res @ 296 Display PPI, looks very good. Nokia states that this is an energy efficient screen. It looks good compared to a Samsung.The performance of the phone is slow. Not fast. Again, Nokia stated that this is an energy efficient CPU. I am a very demanding performance enthusiast! I like fast cars, and Fast computers! That said, i am not disappointed by the phones performance at all. It is a quality Snapdragon CPU, so i am sure it will churn through many tasks very steadily. Using this as a daily driver, along with a more powerful tablet, might be a good strategy to consider for power users. Just saying.I am writing this review about 24 hours after the unboxing, and it is above half battery life since initial charge. And i leaned on the camera and downloaded, installed and configured almost 100 apps. I will be pushing this phone.It accepted a 128gb micro sd card. So, mem is not an issue with the initial 8gb and the Clean and Bloatware Free Android Os allows you to control where you store what.Device could very easily be bootloader unlocked and flashed, if that's your thing. I might try Lineage os at some time, but i see no reason as this is one of the cleanest Android OS's i've ridden so far.Camera doesn't seem to be on par with previous Nokia's with the Carl Zeiss Tessar lens. No problem, its still a great value. And i have yet to get a feel for it. TBD. . .I think this is a great product and just want to shout out to the engineers who put the Nokia 2 on the shelf, you guys are all right in my book.

I'm generally impressed with the value for money for the Nokia 2. However, I recently discovered that the Nokia 2 is not fully compatible with all T-mobile 4G LTE networks. According to Nokia Customer Service the Nokia 2 TA-1035 model operates on the following bands and frequencies:WCDMA: Band 1, 2, 5, 8;LTE: Band 1 (2100), 3 (1800), 5 (850), 7 (2600), 8 (900), 20 (800), 28 (700), 38 (2600), 40 (2300)This means that the TA-1035 DOES NOT work on LTE Bands: 2 (1900) & 12 (700). You need those bands to use T-Mobile's 4G LTE service in many places. So, this phone is not fully compatible with T-Mobile. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a reliable way to check which 4G LTE bands T-mobile uses for specific areas. So, if you plan on using T-mobile, and don't want your service dropping as you travel across the US, you had better not get this phone.

This phone is absolutely terrible. I was able to get it started okay but the first time I tried to make a call the screen went black and the call appeared to have not gone thru. I was just stuck with a black, blank screen. I didn't know what to do I just couldn't believe it! So, I pressed the on/off button a couple if tine and just shut the phone off completely to restart it. I was given no option to get back to the call, I didn't know what to do? Meanwhile, on the other end my call had gone thru! The person I was calling was on the other end saying.... hello, hello, hello, and wondering what was going on! Not cool when your calling your boss, not cool at all! This happened twice, and in my first two phone calls and that was enough for me. Because of the trouble I was having I set it aside for a couple of weeks and then decided I was just going to return it. But, I was unable to get it back within the 30 days so I decided I might as well keep it and try to work with it. Now I can't get it to work at all (it's been kind 4 months) because with the time passing and not using it I forgot my password! Of course I've been online doing little tricks to get past this and learn how to reboot it and start it from factory conditions and all that but nothing works! I have started the process successfully and it will look like its going to work but nothing ever works in the end. I just can't get any further with it. Now it's telling me I have to use my Google account i started with but when I try to put it in it doesn't take my information. So I am stuck in this perpetual mode of that blue screen and trying to get it activated and it's driving me mad! I've tried everything. Well, maybe not everything but the thing I am being asked to do to get thru the google lassoed, I have no idea how to go about and I'm just at my wits end with this. It's been over 4 months now and I haven't been as to get it to work almost the entire time. I will try to fix it again I suppose when I have the time and patience but wtf! This is such a pain. I've wasted so many hours on soo many hours nights trying to fix this and I still can't get the stupid thing to work! AT ALL! It just won't let me last this initial blue screen. I can't get past this stupid google account thing. Damn google! This is so frustrating! I have wasted my money and now my time trying to fix this and get this phone to work. It's been a nightmare. I wish I could just get my money back, I haven't even used it! But, they say no returns after 30 days. It doesn't make sense when they're selling a faulty product! And frankly it's not not fair and not right, nor is it fair or right on the part of Google either, I never asked to sign up with Google. I was forced to.