{"id":11034,"date":"2012-05-07T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=11034"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:53:19","slug":"on-the-cheap-alert-lg-viper-free-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/cheap\/on-the-cheap-alert-lg-viper-free-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Cheap Alert: LG Viper Free On Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-10014\" title=\"lg-viper-4g-lte\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lg-viper-4g-lte.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"317\" \/>The phone that I dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/sprint-announces-second-lte-device-minus-release-date\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sprint&#8217;s second LTE device<\/a> turned out to actually be the first. LG Viper beat the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus\u00a0 by a few days. Now comes another first &#8212; the first free LTE phone on Sprint. <a href=\"http:\/\/wireless.amazon.com\/LG-Viper-Android-Phone-Sprint\/dp\/B007SNSZTA\/ref=sh_br_ph_1?ie=UTF8&amp;transaction=INDIVIDUAL_NEW&amp;sr=2-1-entd&amp;qid=1336397744472\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Wireless<\/a> is offering this handset for free with a new contract and for only fifty bucks as an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had some hands-on time with the Viper. While it certainly lacks the high-end styling of the Galaxy Nexus or the<a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/the-htc-evo-4g-lte-dull-name-sexy-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\"> EVO 4G LTE<\/a>, it&#8217;s hardly &#8220;low end&#8221;. Considering that Sprint has yet to roll out their LTE network, the Viper is a safe bet if you need a new phone right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phone that I dubbed Sprint&#8217;s second LTE device turned out to actually be the first. LG Viper beat the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus\u00a0 by a few days. Now comes another first &#8212; the first free LTE phone on Sprint. Amazon Wireless is offering this handset for free with a new contract and for only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512],"tags":[133,2724,132,10,2725],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11037,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions\/11037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}