Boost Mobile drops BlackBerry Curve 8530 price to $199.99
Yes, for one of the lowest-end BlackBerrys money can buy, $199.99 seems pricey, but there's something important to keep in mind here: Boost is a contract-free brand, and the Curve 8530 is no exception. The Sprint subsidiary has announced today that it's "permanently" dropping the price of the phone from $249.99 down to $199.99, after which you'll pay a continually-shrinking monthly fee for unlimited voice, messaging, and data that starts at $60. Not bad -- of course, you won't get the push-to-talk action that Boost historically has been known for with its iDEN network, but unless you're a construction worker or you're constantly dropping your phone from six feet onto concrete, we'll bet you can survive
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: announced-today, boost-mobile, concrete, construction, curve8530, entry, mobile, result, rim, subsidiary
Motorola Bali and Rambler flip phones hitting Boost Mobile on August 11
Boost Mobile does a fine enough job advertising its $50 monthly unlimited plan, but how's about the phone selection? If you're a fan of flips, Motorola has a new duo headed to the aforesaid operator next month
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bali, boost-mobile, capability, engadget-mobile, external-touch, flips, motorola, motorola rambler, qwerty, Rocks
Motorola Rambler coming to Boost Mobile with full QWERTY on a hinge
Motorola already offers the Clutch if you're looking to get your text on through Boost Mobile -- but what if you want that oh-so-rare combination of full QWERTY plus a clamshell form factor? That's pretty hard to find regardless of carrier or network technology, but it looks like Moto is going to deliver with a phone called the Rambler featuring a 1.3 megapixel cam with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, GPS, and not much else -- in other words, like most Boost devices, this one will be pretty low-end. More on price, release date, and specs as we get it
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: boost-mobile, Boostmobile, capture, clamshell, engadget-mobile, factor, network, qwerty, text-on-through, video, video-capture, words
Boost Mobile rolls out Motorola i296
If you thought the aging i290 was about ready for replacement, we've got some great news for you -- the updated i296 is upon us. It's an ultra-basic device by any measure, seeing how it lacks a camera, music player, and web access, but if you're just looking for a marginally stylish way to get your chirp-chirp on, this might be a decent way to do it. As with many (if not most) iDEN devices in recent memory, the candybar is mil-spec 810F compliant for dust, shock, and vibration resistance, and it runs just $59.95 contract free -- let's see you try to get that kind of a deal on a smartphone, eh
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Boost, boost-mobile, Compliant, engadget, engadget-mobile, i296, mil-spec-810, mobile, motorola, recent-memory, web
Boost Mobile launches Motorola i1 on June 20
Since the Android-powered i1 was originally announced for Sprint's Direct Connect service, you might've assumed that it'd be the first to get a hard launch date -- but subsidiary Boost Mobile is breaking that news first for some reason with the announcement today that the phone is coming June 20 in Boost retail stores plus Bust Buy locations. Pricing hasn't been announced, but Best Buy had previously teased it for $350 , so we wouldn't expect this to be a cheap purchase; then again, you've gotta remember that it's coming at you contract-free.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announcement, Boost, boost-mobile, bust, mobile, moto, motorola, network-either, phone, result, sprint
Boost Mobile confirms it’s getting the Motorola i1, basically
Let's be honest -- there was never any real doubt that Boost was going to share the Motorola i1 with parent Sprint, especially after Best Buy went ahead and threw it up early .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Boost, boost-mobile, buy, confirmation, engadget, like-wildfire, message, mobile, night, Sleep, sprint
Boost-branded Motorola i1 goes live on Best Buy’s site
You won't find any mention of the Android-powered Motorola i1 on Boost Mobile's site just yet, but the phone -- the very first to run Android for iDEN networks -- looks destined for Sprint's prepaid brand now that Best Buy has fessed up to it.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bestbuy, Boost, boost-mobile, Boostmobile, engadget-mobile, entry, live-on-best, most-exciting, moto, motorola, phone, result, the-question
Sanyo Juno lands on Boost Mobile, channels Sprint’s SCP-2700
If Boost Mobile's latest from Sanyo -- the so-called Juno -- looks familiar, it damn well better: it's nothing more than a rebranded SCP-2700 . We're still having a hard time getting used to the fact that Boost is back into the CDMA game yet again (in a big way) with Sprint's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, and needless to say, the Juno doesn't have a trace of iDEN compatibility coursing through its electronic veins.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Boost, boost-mobile, entry, its-electronic, juno, lands-on-boost, scp-2700
Motorola i1 gets clearer: 5 megapixel cam, Opera Mini default browser?
We've been slipped some additional information on Motorola's imminent Android-powered i1 for iDEN networks today -- actually, one correction and one interesting note. First, the correction: we're now being told (by the same tipster as before ) that it's actually got a 5 megapixel camera on board, a nice upgrade from the 3 we'd previously been told to expect. More interestingly, though, we're also hearing that Opera Mini has been tapped as the i1's default browser -- a move that Moto is more than welcome to make since this is a Blur -powered, non-"Google Experience" device.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: boost-mobile, engadget, exclusive, in the wild, megapixel, microsoft, moto, opera, opera-mobile, opus one, party, sprint-direct, windows
Boost gets back into CDMA game in a big way
In the "press releases we missed while going out of our gourds on the show floor at CES" department, Sprint's Boost Mobile is getting back into CDMA in a big way this month. It wasn't long ago that Boost swore off its CDMA tendencies as iDEN started to heat up again against all odds -- thanks largely to the release of hot (well, hot by iDEN standards, anyway) devices like the Stature -- but CDMA makes a lot more sense now that the parent company has scooped up Virgin and smartly has no interest in running two separate, unrelated prepaid divisions. Anyhow, the gist of the announcement is that Boost will be reinvesting heavily in its $50 monthly unlimited plan for CDMA devices and has brought on three inaugural handsets to help kick it off: the Mirro and Incognito (Sprint version pictured) from Sanyo alongside the venerable BlackBerry Curve 8330
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, boost-mobile, engadget, hence-the-name, keyboard, mobile, qwerty, stature