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everyone I'm Jessica Dahle court frisina taking a first look at the huawei vitriol for MetroPCS there might be two reasons you're interested in this phone the first is that at $130 off contract it is very affordable and the second reason is because it does have 4G LTE and metro pcs is now using at least in some areas the t-mobile network so 4G LTE is a lot faster than you've ever seen in on a metro phone before the specs themselves aren't terribly exciting but it does all hang together to give you an Android experience there is Android 4.1 jelly bean on this device has a four inch screen colorful enough rich enough definitely it's not going to distract you is a little bit hard to read outdoors and direct sunlight so find yourself a little bit of shade the phone itself has curved corners and a very plain soft touch finish on the back that makes it comfortable and easy to hold the screen on the front does attract a lot of smudges so you're gonna want to keep a little wiping cloth handy at almost 5 ounces the phone is rather heavy but you will soon grow used to it if you hold on to it long enough there's a 5 megapixel camera on the back with LED flash there's also autofocus which is nice photos were pretty good and so was the 720p HD video the audio pickup in video capture mode wasn't that great I could hear myself a lot better than I could hear anybody else I was filming so you'll want to get in close to your subject on the front you'll find a very basic of VGA camera there's a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor in here sometimes performance was a little bit laggy and I would see starts and stutters for video playback and games I did reboot the phone and that made everything very smooth be prepared to buy expandable memory for this there's only four gigabytes of an internal storage and you will only have access to about two of those so you can get up to 32 gigabytes of expandable memory and I recommend you get at least something this phone isn't perfect it's not the most beautiful you can get and there were a couple of bugs but I think it was a solid effort from Huawei and definitely a phone that you can consider if you're looking for something affordable with LTE I'm Jessica Dahl court 4c net you can check out my full review of the Huawei vitreous for metro PCs at cnn.com