Sprint Aquos SmartPhone

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I am a Sprint Ambassador and will be sharing my experiences testing various Sprint devices and services for the remainder of the year. I bring you the hottest new Sprint devices on the market, and today we are looking at the new Sharp Aquos on the Sprint network. The Aquos has quite a few interesting characteristics to set it apart from the crowd. The most obvious is the screen. One look and you can see the screen goes all the way to the edge. No longer is there a border around your screen. This is alot more interesting and fun then you would suspect. The only downside being you will want an edgeless phone more often then not now.

In addition to the new edgeless design, this phone also features an emphasis on its camera. The camera sports two 8 MP (3,264×2,448 photo resolution; 1080p@30FPS video resolution) and 1.2MP front-facing cameras (1,280×960 photo resolution; 720p@30FPS video resolution). There is also a new mode of picture taking called night shot which makes both the subject and background brighter, for those difficult nighttime shots.

This photo was taken with the Aquos cell phone- it’s clear and the camera was easy to use.

The phone itself is a Kit Kat 4.2 Android phone which runs on the Sprint Spark network. The network is a combination of advanced network capabilities built for data delivering peak wireless speeds of 60Mbps. In addition to the strong network you can also make Wi Fi phone calls and send Wi Fi text messages as well. (Like when you are out of range but not out of internet access.)  This is incredibly useful on vacation where internet might be included with your room, but you get zero bars on your phone.

In general, this phone is impressive and makes for quite the visual stunner when showing pictures or videos to others. By sporting the Harman Kardon’s LiveStage music listening on headphones, it is crisp and sharp sounding. The Sharp AQUOS Crystal is available now at Sprint stores everywhere.