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I'm a T-Mobile customer and I purchased my iPhone 6+ from them on their monthly payment plan... I wanted to get rid of the payment plan so, I figured I would try this phone and see if it could be used to replace my iPhone for my needs (For the record, I'm not a huge Apple or Google fan these days but, Microsoft's platform has too many issues). DAILY USAGE My daily smartphone usage includes, surfing the web, reading emails, texting, using Waze, playing a few games, and taking a few pictures. For these tasks, I find the phone handles them quite well. BATTERY LIFE This area is a bit of a stumbling block in that the battery is 3000 mAh and yet you can run through it in 9 hours if you use it heavily as I do. For me, I keep a charger in my car and I use that when I'm using Waze so, I just have to make it through the work day and then the phone will be partially recharged on the way home so, it isn't a big deal as far as my daily usage is concerned. Also, I suspect it will get better the less I play with the phone as I've been checking out all the features for the first few days of owning it. PERFORMANCE With 2 Gigs of RAM and an Intel Quad Core CPU, this puppy is smooth! I literally haven't experienced a slow down at all and cannot believe how well Asus has done with optimizing the phone. Literally, jumping from screen to screen or app to app has been no issue at all as it remains quick and fluid throughout the day. CAMERA This is an area where many people have complaints but, I actually like the camera a lot and I find the quality of the images to be very solid. I tend to bring them into the Windows 8 photo app and just do an auto-correction (with one of the 5 auto-correction options and they turn out better than my iPhone delivers). Now, with that said the camera can produce some nice images but, it is in no way optimized for this so, if you want the simple dumb down interface and high quality photos you get from the iPhone then you should probably pay the extra $400 and buy the iPhone. The biggest strength of the camera is in how flexible it is... You can literally adjust White Balance in 100K Intervals starting at 2500 Kelvin and there's an almost 100% manual mode that allows you to set everything but the Aperture (It is more like Aperture Priority) and this works quite well if you ask me. I've uploaded 5 photos I've taken using the camera and auto-correcting in Windows Photo app. NETWORK AND WIFI The radios in the camera have been great so far, I get LTE 4G from TMO and my Wireless N connection is also very quick. BLOATWARE This is the one downside to the phone, Asus puts a ton of their own software on this thing. Honestly I don't think it is any worse than Apple on the iPhone because it is pretty much all Asus Software but, I wish you had an option to remove it and not just disable it. ZEN UI The UI isn't bad but, I still replaced the stock keyboard with the Google Keyboard and the stock Launcher with the Google Now Launcher so I could get it mostly back to the stock Android behavior and it has worked out really well for me so far. CONCLUSION This is really a great product for the money and I'm really impressed with it. I can pretty much do anything I could do with the iPhone and then some so, I believe this is going to help me sell my iPhone and get rid of that $40 monthly bill for the phone. If you're looking for a really nice phone or fone for under $200, this phone is really tough to beat!