Samsung Z2 - Anyone worked with it yet?

[dyllindd]

Good Everyone Everyone,

So with the grandparents still on Blackberry 9300's, I would like to get them new phones as gmail and whatsapp are not supported on their phones anymore.

I was thinking of getting each the new Samsung Z2. Has anyone worked with this phone before? It does not need to be a performance monster, grandparents just need to be able to use whatsapp, gmail, facebook and basic google search. I am aware that it has a Tizen operating system and not Android. I am unfamiliar with this operating system hence the asking for opinions.

Specs are as follows:
"QUAD-CORE 1.5 GHZ
4.0''DISPLAY
5MP CAMERA
8GB INTERNAL MEMORY
MICRO SD SLOT (UP TO 128 GB)
1GB RAM
MEMORY STORAGE IS EXPANDABLE
1500 mAh"

http://www.game.co.za/samsung-galaxy-z2-tizen-gold.html

Will this be cheap and cheerful or cheap and cr@p?

 

[Johnatan56]

It seems to be quite hated, 13 fans out of 4.5 million hits: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_z2-8288.php
Can't find any review that even find the phone okay.

 

[PhireSide]

If I'm not mistaken don't these phones run Samsung's own OS, Tizen?

Edit: See it's been mentioned. My apologies

 

[Lupus]

Rather look at Xiaomi

 

[aktiv]

I would think grandparents would require bigger than 4"screen - reading and typing on that screen will be a mission