Samsung Seek takes Boost Mobile in new form factor directions
The classic landscape QWERTY slider layout is nothing new — at least, not by most carriers’ standards — but for a Sprint subsidiary still tied up in the vintage world of iDEN, hardware moves at a slightly slower pace. That’s right: the Samsung Seek becomes Boost Mobile’s first-ever touchscreen device with a side-sliding full keyboard, offering a 2.6-inch QVGA display paired with a 1.3 megapixel camera and microSD expansion up to 32GB — a pretty modest feature set, hence the pretty reasonable contract-free price of $149.99 (compare that to the recently-launched i1, for example, which goes for $300). Look for it to hit online come August 25, by the end of the month at Best Buy and RadioShack, in Sprint stores in September, and Target in October — whew! — but if you’re itching to get it right this second, it should already be floating around at some independent retailers. Follow the break for the full press release.
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