X Power LG combines a massive battery with a new processor

X Power LG combines a massive battery with a new processor ,

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Sprint is aujourd 'hui announcing the LG X Power, an Android smartphone midrange that are not particularly remarkable except for one thing, the processor inside it. It is the first phone from Sprint to use a MediaTek processor, specifically the P10 Helio. MediaTek was found in a handful of devices in the United States -. Most notably the tablet Amazon Fire line-but it is still far behind Qualcomm in North America and has not yet made significant inroads in the major media shops

The X Power a screen 5.3-inch, Full HD (1080p), an 8 megapixel camera, 16GB of storage, 2GB of RAM, a microSD card slot, and a giant 4100 mAh battery. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow (not Nougat, unfortunately) and will be available both Sprint and Boost Mobile for only $ 149. The most impressive part of this will probably be the life of the battery :. With this size and battery efficiency claims MediaTek, it is evaluated for 33 hours of talk time or two days of use between charges

Helio P10 MediaTek provides performance Similar to the Snapdragon 600 series

MediaTek said octacore Helio P10 1.8GHz processor offers performance comparable to Snapdragon Qualcomm 600 series. It comes with a world-style modem that allows the X Power to work in most countries around the world and Sprint LTE Over two channels support carrier aggregation. MediaTek has other more powerful processors in its range, as well, but it is not known if or when they come to the United States.

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X Power is just the first US CDMA phone with a MediaTek chip in it, but the company says it has completed the modem certification for the P10 on the four main carriers by the end of October. This means that we will probably see more devices with P10 MediaTek soon, including on media other than Sprint.

Sprint will start selling the power X this month.

Correction, September 16th, 12:30 ET : An earlier version of this article said it was the first phone with a MediaTek processor to be offered by a major US carrier. This is incorrect, power X is just the first phone with a MediaTek chip on Sprint. The article has been corrected.