Only wisdom from a former Verizon customer. If you live in a rural area, stay with Verizon. I changed after 10 years, and wish I hadn't. I left for the bright lights and glitz of another carrier offering to roll over my unused minutes and said they had a tower a few miles from my country home. Now instead of dropped calls I don't get any, and the quality is worse. If you live in a densely populated area with lots of towers it's probably okay. But I still believe Verizon is the best.
I have the samsung glyde. And i love it!
They recently worked on it.
So it has barley any problems.
I have only had it for a few months.
It's a touch screen so be careful if you do get it.
Get protector screens just incase you drop it. (I have and it has very small scratches.) which is a good thing
I have had many of their phones.
The glyde is by far my favorite.