Cricket Apple iPhone 16e 8GB RAM (Prepaid), Midnight

Upgraded from an iphone11. HUGE improvement! Better camera, better screen, and very fast. And now apple lets us put our old phone next to the new phone and it transfers everything over. It's so much simpler than it was when it took all day to redo all the settings! Also, changing from the physical SIM to the esim took like 3 minutes. I just logged into the ST website and selected “activate,” entered the new IMEI number and it was done. TBH, I was dreading setting up the new phone but it's so easy now! I'm so glad I upgraded. This phone is so much nicer.

I seen the price so I pounce on it had to it was irresistible once I received it. I love everything about it, especially with that new update I feel like I discovered a new era in cell phones and one thing I did notice is the volume in the speakers is louder I bumped up from a vintage 11 iPhone. It's an antique compared to this if you can afford to get it get it seriously.

I had an iPhone 11 so therefore I did not have no eSIM, setting this phone up was a headache. I do not have no RCS messaging. It is still trying to activate. They say it can take 24 hours, but I will say my husband bought me a phone just like this before Christmas and I could not get RCS to work which that means you cannot group message android and iPhone together. I was not getting family messages. I took the phone back after a week of having it. But my husband decided I really needed a new phone so his got this phone again for me and I’m not stressing about RCS at the moment… but like I said setting the phone up is a headache if you’re going from physical SIM to eSIM. I was on the phone with straight talk for an hour. Literally ridiculous. If they want us to go to eSIM make it easier for phones to be set up that still have regular SIM cards. Back to the details of this phone it is much lighter filling than my iPhone 11.. My iPhone 11 feels like I’m carrying around a laptop, exaggerating of course, this phone is super light. Very smooth. So far no problems with glitching, freezing or anything of that..Don’t really know what the battery life is like yet, but I hear that it is amazing but typically as we all know, Apple phones are awesome at first for their battery life and then they go to trash. The never-ending cycle of having to buy new phones, which I really hope I never have to buy a phone again. But you know how they do with the 47 updates making your phone run slower! My opinion of course!

When this phone first came out, the price point didn't make logical sense, and it also didn't make logical sense to bother with this iPhone. However, at $399 and given that it becomes unlocked after 60 days of service, it's a steal and is future proof silicon wise fo a good, decent while.

I came from an iPhone 11 on an at%26t network. I love my new iPhone 16e, and my Verizon-based Straight Talk plan has provided service that meets, and perhaps even exceeds, the service I had prior, and I live up in the foothills. The Straight Talk customer service was quite helpful in getting my number transitioned over in a timely manner. I’m only giving up the ultra-wide lens going from my 11 regular, to the 16e, but the performance increase has far exceeded that of my old iPhone. I am quite satisfied with my purchase.

Definitely worth the money. It does not come with phone service you do have to get that separately. The battery life is amazing I was able to go online and activate with ESim.

Had the phone about a week. I previously had a iPhoneX so even with this being a “budget” option It is a huge upgrade from what I had. Love being able to access features like genmoji that I couldn’t on my old phone

I purchased Iphone 16e at WalMart, signing up for WM's Family Mobile $20 plan as this is a backup phone. WalMart FM offers several plans depending on multiple factors, %26 all are reasonably priced. Activating was easy with a phone call as the WalMart rep was friendly %26 knowledgeable. Great choice! Thus far, no downsides. Far easier than Tracfone.

My 3 star for this review is because this phone was purchased at a Walmart in person from an associate that wasn’t properly trained. I know because I couldn’t activate it and StraightTalk said it wasn’t properly scanned at checkout in electronics. I ended up returning this one and bought another 16e. The properly scanned 16e immediately activated and has excellent battery life. I’m replacing my 14plus for this and while the screen is smaller, lacks multiple photo lenses, and magnets for wireless charging I didn’t use anyway this is the perfect iPhone I was needing. It’s quick at switching apps and can run any app I need.

This iPhone 16 e has been overheating while charging ever since I got it. I thought the phones only do it when you had them for a long time I was wrong I just got this phone 3 weeks ago and since DAY ONE. It's been hot. Even while driving I have to put it in front of the AC