Cricket brings the just-launched ZTE Grand X 4’s price down to $50 for Black Friday

It’s not easy for small prepaid wireless service providers to contend the US “Big Four” even under normal circumstances, so trying to snatch customers away from T-Mobile, Sprint or Verizon during the gift-giving season sounds like a perfect mission for Tom Cruise.

But while Cricket Wireless can’t give away the iPhone 7 or Samsung Galaxy S7 for free this Black Friday weekend, AT&T’s low budget-focused daughter operator will not ask you to jump through many hoops to score its best holiday deal either.

No trade-in required, no convoluted fine print or strings attached. Just visit one of the prepaid carrier’s brick and mortar stores or head over to cricketwireless.com from now until Sunday, November 27, and pay $49.99 on a recently launched ZTE Grand X 4 with activation on a smartphone plan.

Mind you, this respectable mid-range 5.5-incher is literally as fresh as paint, costing $130 last week with a fingerprint reader in tow, Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Snapdragon 425 processor, 2GB RAM, 13/5MP cameras, and 3,140 mAh battery. A solid spec sheet for that introductory price, a killer bang for buck now.

Cricket has an abundance of tempting limited-time offers for folks bringing their numbers over from a different network too, including a $100 ZTE Grand X Max 2 with 6-inch Full HD screen resolution and dual 13 + 2MP rear cams, $30 Samsung Galaxy Amp Prime, and free Microsoft Lumia 650, ZTE Sonata 3 or LG Spree.

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ZTE Grand X Max 2 on Cricket sounds nice, but what’s with the parkour?

ZTE has a pretty decent mid-range smartphone that’s just made it to AT&T’s prepaid service, but are we getting a capoeira lesson here? And what’s with this long name?Well, the blog post at Cricket Wireless’s site play cute with the marketing of the phone with references to Motorola’s heavily ‘ol chugger, the DynaTAC, and the whole bit about how smartphone screen sizes blew up so fast.But then we get this series of GIFs (which we can’t place here because of our ...

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