Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime makes its $180 U.S. debut on Cricket Wireless

By Williams Pelegrin Published April 10, 2015

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Originally available in Asia, the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime is finally making its U.S. debut through AT&T’s prepaid subsidiary, Cricket Wireless.

With its 1.2GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM, you wouldn’t really call the Galaxy Grand Prime a beast. Its 5-inch 960×640 display doesn’t exactly scream high-end either. But the purpose of the smartphone isn’t to offer a high-end feature set as much as it is to offer 4G LTE to the masses at an affordable price. And with a price tag of a meager $180, it’s mission accomplished.

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The phone has 8GB of internal storage, but that can be bumped up by an additional 64GB through the Micro SD card slot. You’ll find an 8-megapixel shooter on the back and a 5-megapixel camera for your selfies. The Galaxy Grand Prime runs Android 4.4 KitKat, with no word on whether it will be updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop in the near future.

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Keep in mind that, since the Galaxy Grand Prime currently sells for the aforementioned $180 price tag, it doesn’t qualify for Cricket Wireless’ recently-announced payment options. Even so, considering that you get 4G LTE access with the smartphone at that price, the Galaxy Grand Prime seems like a very decent offering.

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