On March 17 the Cricket Getting LG Optimus One as LG Optimus C- for $130 off-contract

On March 17 the Cricket Getting LG Optimus One as LG Optimus C- for $130 off-contract

There are many different wireless carriers here in the United States with the major ones including T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. However, under them there are a whole slew of other carriers such as MetroPCS and Cricket. While these carriers don’t get access to the hardest hitting devices on the market, they do have some pretty decent offerings.

Just about every other carrier has its own variant of LG's fast-selling Optimus One smartphone, and you can now even count Cricket Wireless among that group. It recently launched the LG Optimus C, which offers yet another oh-so-slightly-different design along with all the same specs we've seen before -- a capacitive 3.2-inch HVGA display, 3.2 megapixel camera, a 600MHz processor, and Android 2.2 with some minor LG customizations. That may not sound like much, but we've found the other versions of the phone to be surprisingly snappy and solid for such a budget-priced smartphone. That budget pricing of course continues on Cricket, which is offering the phone for just $130 after a $20 web discount and $50 mail-in rebated -- and, yes, that's without a longt-term contract, although you will apparently have to sign up for Cricket's $55 a month unlimited Android plan to start with.