Great phone for a great price The battery life to me is good. If I am home with stable wifi, it lasts for 2 days. While at work, presumably where it is searching it lasts for a whole day. I found turning off some things like Skype helped. There are battery saving options. The sound is really good! Impressive actually for the size of the device. I also bought a 64gb micro sd card which should be way more than enough. I uploaded thousands of pics and some songs and videos, to it and barely put a dent. It is large, which also takes some getting used to, but the benefits to that outweigh the detriment, for me at least. I was comparing my phone with a friend who had the latest phone, rhymes with a bit noisy, which costs more than twice what mine does, and they were the same size and thickness. He also had complaints about his battery, and it seemed mine lasted longer. So to sum up, as an admitted first-time online smartphone buyer, so far I am happy.