Overview of LG Phoenix 2

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I am actually pretty well impressed by this phone so far. It's got a lot that my older phone didn't have. I figured I'd share a few things about it with y'all in case anyone was looking for a phone. The LG Phoenix 2, is a phone marketed by AT&T to their GoPhone prepaid customers. That being said anyone with a AT&T sim card can pick this phone up at Wal-Mart, Best Buy or off Amazon and stick their SIM card in it and be good to go. I am not sure of the price at the other stores, but I got it from Walmart.com and picked it up site to store (same day) for $70.00. As far as I am concerned that is a great deal for the phone. Before I get into the actual phone, I want to say that I absolutely love being on AT&T's GoPhone prepaid plan I pay $45 dollars a month for unlimited everything. Now, let's get into the goodness of this phone. It has a five inch HD display, and let me tell you this is a fantastic find not only on a lower budget smart phone but on a prepaid phone period. This screen is beautiful. I also like that the glass wraps around the edges, makes it seem cleaner and smoother. It has front and rear facing cameras. The rear camera is 8 MP with a flash, and the front is a 5 MP with no flash. When in selfie mode (using the front facing camera), you can take a picture by touching anywhere on the screen, which is kind of a cool feature. The internal memory on the phone is 16 GB, and is expandable to 32 GB ( which is what I currently have in it). The internal memory is twice what my old phone had which is a huge plus to me. The back cover is soft, and textured making it- at least to me a little easier to hold on and less likely for me to drop it. The volume and power keys are also on the back directly under the camera. Which is nice. Makes taking screenshots a little easier, at least for me. Instead of being boxy or square the phone is rounded, a small detail- but something I like more and more the more I use my phone. To unlock the phone when it's gone to sleep, this phone has knock knock mode, which means if you tap the sleeping screen twice- it wakes up. Then you have to swipe to actually unlock it. Which is nice. Hopefully this will prevent pocket dials and the screen being on for no reason when in a purse etc. The phone is running Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which is 1.0 ahead from the phone I was using before this one. I am still getting used to all the ins and outs of the updated operating system, but so far so good. It comes with a good amount of pre loaded apps. Of course being an Android is has all the basic Google apps including Chrome, Gmail and Drive (as well as several others), but a new app for me is Android Pay. I haven't messed around with it, but it's nice to see it- after hearing about it for so long. It also comes with Amazon, Amazon Kindle, a few different AT&T apps, the DirecTV app, a file manager, Uber and Lookout. So all in all, for the most part the apps are helpful. I have only seen it in the one color black, but it does have silver all the way around on the edges. It's simple and classy. Since I am pretty rough on phones, and I want this one to last- I am going to go look for cases on Amazon. There we go, a little information on the new phone I picked up. I'm loving it more and more as I mess with it more.