LG's X Power combines a massive battery with a new processor

Sprint is today announcing the LG X Power, a midrange Android smartphone that isn’t particularly remarkable save for one thing, the processor inside of it. It is the first phone from a Sprint to use a MediaTek processor, specifically, the Helio P10. MediaTek has been found in a handful of devices in the US — most notable ones being Amazon’s Fire tablet line —but it still lags far behind Qualcomm in North America and has not yet made significant inroads into major carrier