my zte is a couple years old and hasn't slowed down at all, my coby kyrose, though slow, is no slower than when i got it, the lg i had before my zte, though it had a glitchy media player, was not slow[unless compared to the zte], did not slow down, and despite it's glitches [which no other android device has had that i know of except my sister's similar phone] was my favorite phone i always say the problem is you have an apple, for good reason, i never hear android users complaining about their phones, it's always people using an iphone, and most commonly, people who have upgraded from a previous generation apple product