Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime 2016 makes the benchmarking rounds with passé specs

You know the low-end Galaxy Grand Prime that T-Mobile tried to incentivize Galaxy S7 buyers with a few months back? Believe it or not, it’s about to turn two whole years old, and in spite of its obvious US prepaid success, as well as enduring Eastern European popularity, the 5-incher never got a direct follow-up.Too late for a second-gen Grand Prime now? It appears not, with Zauba import records sparking the first rumors a little while ago, and the dynamic GFXBench/Geekbench duo pretty much ...

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Samsung Galaxy On5 and LG Stylo 2 Plus headed for MetroPCS soon

An interesting product roster reshuffle is happening at MetroPCS, as T-Mobile’s prepaid subsidiary picks up a number of new low-cost Androids while also retiring a few old ones. The mid-range LG K10 and Samsung Galaxy J7 are already up for grabs through Metro’s e-store, after debuting at parent “Uncarrier” just a couple of weeks ago, ...

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Samsung BOGO deal now on at T-Mobile

Like we’ve been saying, these “buy one, get one” deals have been popping up like moles in a prairie. T-Mobile has another one going on right now. Will you take the hammer to this one?Simply put, all the Samsung Galaxy phones T-Mobile is offering are ...

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Buy a Samsung Galaxy S7 from T-Mobile, get a Grand Prime for free

Despite its young age, super-appealing design, ultra-high-end specifications, and apparently, solid box-office performance thus far, the Galaxy S7 deals keep piling up. After netting its very early adopters Gear VR and even Gear S2 freebies,

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T-Mobile offers free LTE tablet, discounted iPad Air 2 and select Android phones for Valentine’s

The most generous, snarkiest, and also fastest-rising mobile operator when it comes to 4G LTE coverage strikes again for a limited time, bringing back a promotion that’s contributed to the survival of affordable Android tablets in several instances in the past.Forget affordable, the Alcatel OneTouch Pixi 7 is ...

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Cricket inaugurates holiday shopping season early with a handful of free phones

AT&T prepaid subsidiary Cricket Wireless has gained a reputation as one of the most generous US mobile carriers in recent years, often “selling” decent phones for free despite not demanding a contractual obligation.Naturally, the small operator’s holiday deals are always a sight to behold, this year letting you score no less than four Android and Windows handhelds sans upfront charges, as well as two more at deeply discounted prices.Now, granted, Christmas is still over a month away, and even Thanksgiving Day feels like a sweet but distant dream. You needn’t worry however, as ...

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HTC Desire 626s and two Samsung smartphones are headed to T-Mobile soon

If you’re a customer of T-Mobile US, you have some happy days ahead of you should you be interested in low-to-mid-range smartphones. Some new T-Mobile smartphones are on the way, including HTC’s Desire 626s, the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime, and the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime.The new T-Mobile smartphones will be arriving at the carrier on July 22 – right before the back to school rush when phone purchases see a quick spike thanks to students headed out to school again. At $169, you can find yourself the HTC Desire 626s, HTC’s latest affordable smartphone in the US market. ...

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Sprint adds budget-priced Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime to its lineup

With summer in full swing, we already find ourselves looking forward to September, when events like IFA and Apple’s anticipated new iPhone launch promise to deliver some of the hottest phones of the year. And while that’s going to mean a lot of top-shelf hardware (with prices to match), we dare not forget just how large a market there is for more affordably priced gear. It’s in that light that we turn to Sprint’s latest announcement, as the carrier reveals plans to start selling the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime.The Grand Prime is a Samsung phone

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Samsung looks ready to take a new stab at developing markets with Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition

While flagship smartphones with their bleeding-edge hardware may be the most headline-grabbing segment of the industry, there’s no ignoring just how big the market for more affordably priced handsets can be. An interest in capturing those kind of sales helped drive Samsung to launch the Galaxy Grand Prime last year, a conservatively specced model that also had the benefit of a relatively high-res front-facer for selfies. More recently, rumors have been ...

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime specs may point to its “selfie phone”

You’d think that the next tier above mid tier, is a high-end smartphone, but that’s really only the case if you’re not talking about Samsung. We’ve seen the company launch watered down variants of certain smartphones, or new variants of the same ...

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