Samsung Galaxy J7 Perx - Boost Mobile Prepaid - Carrier Locked

I have owned the Samsung Galaxy S5 for the last 2 yrs. It started acting up and shut off on it's own and all. Was in a debate mentally on whether to set the S7 or S8 but didn't want to spend $500 - $600 on a phone. I had missed the Cinco Dr Mayo 15% cell on Boost Mobile Website. But I am SO GLAD AND HAPPY. I waited and decided to look on Amazon. This same phone is $149 at boost mobile. I read the reviews on it here and on Boost Mobile Website. I was going to buy this phone for my mother originally but I ended up buying it for myself. I explain the excitement and joy this phone is doing for me. It's inexpensive and excellent thus far. You will not be disappointed if you invest in this purchase. I received this phone Friday, May 18th. The transition with SmartSwitch was so easy, simple and stress free. Just wonderful! Thank you Amazon for this awesome and outstanding deal!! I will be purchasing this phone again for my mother within the next few weeks😊👌👍👏

This review done in the Amazon underground app on the J7 Perx. In the box you get a USB charging/data cable and a high output charging block. With the included charging block it can fully charge in 8 hours and last all day. I was gonna get another one for my free account if l liked this one but this phone is so usable that I don't need a backup or supplement. It does support app to SD but you have to look for it and the 7 gigs of available internal memory is impressive. I have 150 apps and have room for more. So if you like to use media player apps and third party SMS and contact apps with alot of themes go for it. It doesn't have a notification LED but the status bar has the potential to use multi color notifications. I miss the settings Widgets that were in the marshmallow android. This phone has the android 7.0 operating system (nougat). I'm hoping it will last a while because it works so well. It is possible to move some apps to the SD card. I have 209 apps and only using 72% of internal storage. 35 apps are themes and 77 moved to SD card.

This is a review of the Samsung Galaxy J7 Perx for the Boost Mobile prepaid network. Note this phone is locked to Boost Mobile, there are other versions of the same phone which will be locked to other providers. Do NOT purchase this phone other than for the Boost Mobile network. My Galaxy J7 Perx is replacing a Samsung Galaxy 5. It has a larger screen, and a longer run time. There is a lot of bloat / spy ware included with the phone (Facebook as an example can't be uninstalled). Google spying just comes with Android, it's built in. There is a fair bit of other junk Boost Mobile included (Instagram and other stuff) which can't be removed, some of it (but not all of it) can be disabled. Many complain the phone is slow. If your phone is slow the cause may be a defective phone OR bloatware. Facebook for example must scan all your gmail messages and phone home, this can take both time and resources. Other products will behave similarly, during the initial "scan" of your device by the bundled applications the phone may be a bit sluggish. After a while, either by stopping bloat, or letting it run through your stuff, the phone should be relatively snappy. The phone is fast for me, faster than a Galaxy 5 or 6, not as good of course as a Galaxy 8. While it has 8 cores, and can issue 2 instructions (sometimes) per cycle on a 2.3 GHz clock the 8 instruction pipeline doesn't function out of sequence. Thus each instruction must be processed in order. The GPU is fairly powerful, this phone has a 5.5" screen and may not quite be a phablet phone. It offers 720 x 1200 resolution (not 1080 x 1920). While this is considered HD, it is the lower HD standard, most often used by broadcasters. If you get close to the screen, some pixelation is visible. It has a long run time. On Boost mobile this phone had 5 bars of 4G LTE while my older Galaxy 5 using the same Sprint network via Freedompop had only 2 bars. Download speed for this phone is almost 3 times as fast as the speed for my Galaxy 5 after trying several different locations. It may be due to improved phone technology, or due to Boost Mobile getting better data access than Freedompop, but it is nice to have decent speed. I would have preferred a 7 or 8 inch phone, literally a tablet phone, but my budget didn't permit it. My Boost Mobile plan does have tethering (hotspot) and speeds were about half on the hotspot what they were directly to the phone. So hotspot isn't as fast as a direct 4G connection. My speed on this phone averages about 30 Mbs download and a bit under 9Mbs upload. The play store works well. No fingerprint scanner, for security use a PIN. :( Considering the world we live in, where Facebook, Google and whatever else mines our personal information and adversely affects device performance, this is a decent reasonably low cost phone. The Galaxy J7 Perx goes on sale sometimes for as low as $90, in my case the plan I wanted from Boost Mobile was expiring soon and this caused me to pay $129 per phone, which is still not that bad. The front camera is 8 megapixels and works better in low light than other cameras I've used, a slightly lower resolution camera with better low light capability and less blur is an advantage to a few extra megapixels in my opinion. Play store, Google calendar and what not work well. Samsung by default sticks its browser in the quick launch tab. You will notice a cluster of Google, Samsung and Boost Mobile apps many of which provide similar or identical function. If you want Chrome, just move the Samsung browser out and Chrome in. Chrome is better.

It's a great phone with an outstanding battery life. The camera is good enough for 1080p and it's overall functionality is okay. I WILL say this: It is severely under-powered for it's $140 price tag ...even as a mid-grade device. I guess the only thing Samsung really invests in is their flagships, but at $1200 a pop, I won't be standing in line...ever. It DID however upgrade from Nougat to Oreo and some performance fixes were made. Regardless, I'm still not totally satisfied with this model.

Worse phone ever ! Slow af! I have to press the home button 5x to u lock my phone and it keeps going black right away before i can enter the damn code. I called boostmobile and they said i prob have a defective device that i should send it back to amazon but i already threw out my galaxy j7 (2016) witch is a wayy better phone. I decited to not send it back because i use my phone for work . I droped the stupid phone 1 time and the screen cracked so i cant even prove that the phone sucked before i cracked it. Smh

I am in love with this phone! It is very fast and user friendly! The battery lasts a very long time! It is very lightweight! I hated my old android phone because it was slow and not user friendly at all! The settings are easy to manage and find what I am looking for! It is easy to save my contacts! I can have all of my favorite apps on here without running out of space! This is such an easy phone to use! I have not been this happy with a phone in a very long time! The best part is that this phone is very reasonably priced!

I purchased this phone as a gift for my fiancee and she is extremely happy with the product. Battery life is extremely long. She says she can go days without charging. The preinstalled apps are great. She loves the way the phone syncs up with the car Bluetooth for music etc. Takes great pictures and has an Micro SD slot for expanded storage. Device has a maintenance feature that quickly optimizes the RAM, Battery and Storage. Has owned it since Christmas 2017. Very good product. Works with Boost Mobile Prepaid. I would definitely recommend this product.

I can't answer a phone call. The buttons do not work. Do not know if it was always that way, as I bought the phone end of June but just activated it on the 5th of July. What phone doesn't let you answer a call? I can call out with no problem and everything else is working fine so far. BUMMER! Update: Was my fault. You need to slide with your finger instead of tapping to answer the phone. A colleague of mine who has the same phone showed me, and now I couldn't be happier.