J3 is a Great Starter phone.
Edited: Feb 25, 2017, 2:19 PMPhone owned for less than a month
I purchased this phone from Boost Mobile in early December, and I am delighted thus far with its performance. The Boost variant has 1.5 GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM with a 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 410 Processor and Adreno 306 Graphics. The battery lasts a whole day + on a single charge even with the LTE (4G) enabled. I lose about 1-2 percent battery capacity per hour if I take conservation measures. I installed "Doze" on the J3 and I am now losing 0.40-1.00 % per hour.
The 720 x 1280 display is nice. The AMOLED seems to handle well, colors are vibrant for the most part. The camera is not good, but this is not a S7. The Boost variant comes with Android Lollipop 5.1.1 out of the box, I hope that an upgrade to at least Marshmallow (6.0.1) is being considered.
The earpiece audio is excellent. I also got excellent reports on my voice from the phone (bottom microphone). The Speakerphone is fair, the ringers and alerts could be a bit louder. Overall this makes for a good starter phone on Boost Mobile.
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