Cricket Wireless has another bill accessible smartphone on offer and this time it’s from Samsung. The Galaxy Amp Prime is a 4G LTE-equipped handset accessible online and around Cricket’s stores for only $149.99.
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To mount out opposite a competition, Cricket Wireless is rising a new LTE smartphone that’s competitively labelled during only $150.
Not too prolonged ago, Cricket Wireless, a prepaid wireless use provider owned by ATT, teamed adult with LG to launch a LG Spree, a dirt-cheap, entry-level smartphone. The conduit is now expanding a bill portfolio even further, this time adding a Galaxy Amp Prime to a lineup.
Unlike your common flagship, a low-cost device won’t be versus store shops anytime soon, though it is targeted towards price-conscious business or those looking for a accessible delegate phone. But notwithstanding a inexpensive price, Cricket claims that it’s a phone that offers “premium” facilities for an “affordable price.”
By a numbers, a Galaxy Amp Prime is a 4G LTE-equipped handset sporting a 5-inch AMOLED screen, a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera, and it even runs a latest chronicle of Google’s mobile OS, Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
As with inclination of this type, there are some gimmicky appendage features. One of these, for example, allows business to use a palm gesticulate to take both selfies and “groupies.” There’s no need to strech for a symbol to activate a shutter, though accurately what palm gesticulate needs to be achieved isn’t mentioned either.
One of a clearer signals that a Galaxy Amp Prime is indeed meant as a initial phone for someone only removing into smartphones is a device’s “Easy Mode” for beginners and a elderly. In Easy Mode, a handset’s user interface allows for a easier blueprint and a incomparable rise size.
Nonetheless, Cricket says a Galaxy Amp Prime was “created for amicable media energy users and value seekers.” Those supposed “power users” will conclude a unit’s Ultra Power Savings Mode. Cricket claims a phone can penetrate out an additional day in standby mode on only 10 percent charge. Note, however, regulating amicable media in that mode will many expected relieve a Amp Prime’s standby time.
With only a 5-inch display, a device won’t need ambidextrous use by adults, though younger kids regulating a handset as their initial phone competence find one-handed use a bit some-more difficult. Samsung has suspicion of that too and offers one-handed operation of a Amp Prime.
The Galaxy Amp Prime can be purchased during any of a 3,800 Cricket stores nationwide. The handset can also be bought online on Cricket’s website.
