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I'm casting adult court for CNET with your first look at the Samsung Galaxy Avant for t-mobile now this is a budget phone in the $200 range and overall it's pretty good it's got Android 4.4 on here with Samsung's TouchWiz interface so that gives it a lot of continuity in the Android world it also has a quad-core processor that's 1.2 gigahertz from Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 if you care about these things and LTE so all this makes for a pretty robust experience however there are two disappointments with this phone the first one is the screen it's got a smaller 4.5 inch display but the real problem is that the resolution is lower and it shows and it also isn't using Samsung's usual AMOLED technology it's using a TFT display so all this means is that the phone is noticeably duller and images look a little bit grainy err so that's kind of a bummer also the camera there's a five megapixel camera on the back with flash VGA front-facing camera you're not gonna get much out of that Samsung's five megapixel cameras are usually pretty good this one unfortunately just couldn't cut it it was slow to focus never really seemed to focus really completely I got a lot of greeny images out of it they weren't as good as they should have been otherwise the phone does perform pretty well and on its own it's nothing that I'd really get excited about but it's a totally adequate phone especially in this price range especially if you're a t-mobile customer one other thing I will mention is that there's this material on the backing it's not quite soft touch it's matte it doesn't pick up any fingerprints it feels a little bit more like naugahyde rather than you know the usual kind of material and I really like that I thought it felt good really maneuverable sized but again the screen and the camera are low points for this phone I'm Jessica Dahl court 4c net you can read even more pros and cons at cnet.com