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After nearly two months of waiting, Sprint is finally making the Sharp Aquos Crystal available for purchase. The affordable and practically frameless 5-inch smartphone will go on sale beginning Friday, October 17.
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Announced in mid-August, the Sharp Aquos Crystal is an Android 4.4.2 KitKat handset with middle-of-the-pack hardware. The aforementioned display features a 1,280×720-pixel resolution, and the rear houses an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video-recording capability.
Under the hood we find a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor, 8GB of storage, and 1.5GB of RAM. Equipped for Sprint’s Spark LTE network, the phone can also make HD Voice calls.
Sharp Aquos Crystal: Hands-on with the no-bezel smartphone (pictures)
Sprint will sell the Aquos Crystal on Easy Pay for $0 down, plus 24 payments of $10 per month, with an all-in cost of $240.
Sprint prepaid brand Boost Mobile starts stocking the handset today, tapping it with a $150 off-contract price tag. Looking ahead, the Aquos Crystal comes to Sprint Prepaid on October 21 with the same no-commitment option.
