I was strongly considering buying this, but instead ordered the Hisense A7 off of Aliexpress. The main differences is the the A7 is a bit larger than the Palma and also has a headphone jack. It does get some service in the US, but it's also filled with a bunch of Chinese apps that are constantly phoning home, so I currently don't have my sim in it. I've ripped out much of the Chinese bloat with ADB, but I've had to reenable/reinstall when it lead to something breaking. Aside from that, I'm pretty happy with it. It looks some people have gotten root access, but it looks like a somewhat complicated process.