It’s cheap and it’s the only one of the G family that supports Boost Mobile (don’t know why the other ones don’t). It would be for a family member who may need to replace an Android 8 phone. For stupid reason I have a couple of prepaid Boost cards, so being able to use them is a plus, but the phone’s low up front price is also a big attraction. I have the G Stylus 5g and like it a lot, so am imagining the Play as a less fancy version. Is that reasonable? Thanks.
Ehhh, they’re okay.
They’re prone to lag and janky transitions. The kind of phone you get when you can’t get something better, then end up regretting not just using your old one and saving up another twenty or thirty bucks for something else
That being said, if you’re locked into using a specific carrier, and that’s the only real and affordable option, you could do worse. You should see the shit phones that are handed out for the subsidised phones by tracfone. Shitty nokias that are barely usable for calls and text. Good luck trying to fill out online forms on some of those; the g play is better than that. And better than most of the “burner” phones you can get cheap.
Supposedly, the 2022 version is a tad better than the 2023 version, though I can’t tell much of a difference myself. I end up doing the whole debloat thing for friends and family members. Plenty of them are using budget options by default, so I’ve handled a dozen or so of them now.