Verizon Motorola E4 16GB Prepaid Smartphone, Black

Bought this very same phone for my wife from Amazon for $99. They sold it unlocked & we set it up with Republic Wireless. Republic had the cheapest prepaid plan: $20 for 1GB wireless data + unlimited calls/text [on the T-Mobile network] + unlimited data when using your wireless network at home [or any wifi network anywhere]. It was our 1st smartphone and she couldn't be happier to finally upgrade from her old flip phone. So then I bought this phone from Walmart for $40, to replace my old flip phone. It is the same phone as my wife's, only it is locked to Verizon. We had an old Verizon family plan for our flip phones that cost us $85/month. My wife's phone came with a new phone #. When I got this Verizon-locked phone from Walmart I did NOT activate it as the instructions wanted me to do. I just put in the battery. Then I called Verizon and told them I wanted to make a change to our family plan. Told them I wanted to keep one of the phone #s on that plan, and use it on a new prepaid Verizon plan. I wanted the other # on the family plan to be ported to another carrier [Republic Wireless]. Since I hadn't done anything on this new Verizon-locked Walmart-bought phone [other than put in the battery], the Verizon rep handled EVERYTHING for me on the phone. In less than 10 minutes the rep had my new phone up & running, keeping the same phone # I had, and taking the first payment of $40 for my new Verizon prepaid plan [3GB/month of wireless data + unlimited calls/text + unlimited wifi data]. We then googled up the Republic Wireless website to port over my wife's existing phone # she has with Verizon. It was really easy to do [the only problem was Republic doesn't want you to enter the "dash" character that is part of the Verizon account #. It failed until we realized "hey, let's try NOT putting in the "dash" and VOILA! It accepted it our request to port my wife's #]. In less than 24 hours from having walked out of Walmart with this phone, my wife and I each now have this moto e4 phone and they both have the same phone numbers we previously had. If Republic Wireless service proves to be ok, I plan on switching this Verizon-locked moto e4 over to Republic. Many people have done this; this moto e4 CAN work on any network, it's just that this Verizon-locked version of it has had all the other networks disabled. To enable it to work on other networks, people just get an unlock code, easily bought on ebay for $2. [You also would need to buy a sim card for another network]. So our $85/month flip-phone family-plan is now gone. Verizon sent a confirming email to us that the account is deactivated now that there no longer are any phones on it. Woo hoo! $42/month for this moto e4 + $20/month for my wife's Republic moto e4 = $23 less than I had been paying for flip-phone-only service. Woo hoo again! In a month I expect to save another $19/month when I unlock this Verizon-locked moto e4 & switch it over to Republic. WOO HOO!

Excellent price, fast easy delivery! Easy to use and understand, the fingerprint identity is cool! Does not have to be used on verizon, in fact, I love how it was simple to switch to another carrier, (straight talk), simply put in sim card and done!! loud speakers, great amount of space plus a slot for sd card. I have nothing to complain about on this phone! I recommend getting one before they realize how cheap they are selling them and jack the price up!!