This phone was a good option but now the competition is tough as 5A is a much better option for now there a lot of redmi phones to compete with but for this phones always go for 3gb ram variant as miui needs much more resources to run smoothly and the update s are hard to get on dont relay on updates of this little old models the service is also kind of okay and battery life is also decent but as time passes the battery performance begans to reduce a bit