Galaxy Grand Prime review: A wide-angle-selfie budget phone built for the social-media generation.
The wide-selfie budget pioneer.
Galaxy Grand Prime pitched a wide-angle selfie camera to the social generation back in 2014 — a clever marketing hook. The qHD screen and 1 GB RAM dated it fast, but it was a strong-selling entry Samsung of its era.
01Display
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker display results among budget phones of 2014 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
46/10046/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2014 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
38/10038/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2014 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
58/10058/100 trails the 64-point cohort average for budget phones of 2014.
05Build
48/10048/100 is one of the weaker build results among budget phones of 2014 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
06Value
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker value results among budget phones of 2014 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Wide-angle selfie camera in 2014.
- Removable battery.
- Big 5" screen for the price.
- microSD + jack.
- qHD resolution is low.
- 1 GB RAM struggles.
- Slow Snapdragon 410.
- Mono speaker.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 32-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .