Sprint currently has two MVNO networks that run on
its cell towers: Virgin Mobile, which is aimed at iPhone users, and Boost
Mobile, which offers a variety of Android smartphones from premium to low
budget.
ZTE has launched the Tempo X on Boost Mobile, an US$ 80
smartphone with a 5” 480p display, a 5MP main camera with a secondary 2MP front-facing
camera for selfies. There’s a 2,200 mAh removable battery, which, paired with a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 CPU, should make for decent battery life. However, the
8GB of internal storage and 1GB of RAM raises some eyebrows.
Boost Mobile offers a pretty good variety of
affordable smartphones, but we would probably skip the Tempo X based on the
specs. The ZTE ZMAX XL offers a much better feature set for the price: larger
display, larger battery, a more capable Snapdragon 415, higher-res camera,
double the storage and RAM, and a fingerprint scanner for just US$ 20 more.
