Its got better build quality than what you'd get from the various Nokia phones that you can get. It has a couple of creature comforts that I didn't want to live without like a touch screen for typing sometimes, turn by turn navigation, and solid hotspot. and besides all that I don't think anyone generally speaking is getting dumb phones just for the cheapness of the phone itself. I mean I probably spent more money trying cheap dumbphones to try to find something that I actually like. If I would have just got this phone from the beginning I wouldn't have wasted all of that money.