Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Review

Lisa Gade reviews the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, an affordable Android smartphone offered by Sprint, T-Mobile and Cricket in the US. We look at the Sprint version that sells for $240 full retail, while T-Mobile’s is $180 and Cricket’s is $129. The phone runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with Samsung TouchWiz software on the quad core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 CPU with Adreno 306 graphics. It has 1.5 gigs of RAM and 8 gigs of internal storage. The 5” 960 x 540 TFT display won’t win resolution awards, but it has decent colors and brightness. The smartphone has a removable 2600 mAh battery, a microSD card slot, single band WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and NFC. It has a sharp 5MP front camera with a wide angle lens and a rear 8MP camera with LED flash that can shoot 1080p video.