Walmart offers an LG Android 4.4 smartphone for under $10

It’s not Black Friday yet, but if you’re in the market for a dirt-cheap smartphone you don’t have to wait. Walmart’s got a contract-free, dual-core Android that will only set you back $9.82.

For ten bucks, you get a phone with a 3.8-inch touchscreen, a dual-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz, WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 support, and a 3-megapixel rear camera. The same phone would cost you $60 over at Best Buy right now, so it’s a pretty impressive deal. That probably accounts for why it is currently out of stock.

Vice, however, thinks that it’s “perhaps even more impressive” that the $10 LG phone has better specs that the original iPhone, but let’s think about that for a moment. The reality is that they’re cramming hardware that’s vastly superior to the iPhone’s (single-core 411Mhz chip, 128MB of RAM) into smartwatches these days. The fact that even a humble $10 phone is superior to a device that went on sale the year President Obama was elected really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. The impressive part isn’t the improvement in the hardware, it’s that manufacturers can churn this stuff out so cheaply today.

That doesn’t mean the Lucky LG16 isn’t a good deal. At $10, it’s priced like a burner phone but still gives you a touchscreen and access to Google Play. The only similar items showing up in that price range Walmart’s banner offered up were a cheapo flip phone and a tube of acne control cream.

Look around the web, and you’ll actually find a lot of solid reviews for the LG16, too — like over at Best Buy. Again, it’s $50 more there but they’ve got another option for you. You can pick up the Alcatel Pixi GLITZ for $10 instead. It, too, has better specs than the original iPhone.

Link To Buy : Walmart

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