Cricket launches new wireless plan with unlimited music for $55 a month
Stop us if you've heard this one before: a cell phone comes with an unlimited music subscription . Now, flip it on its head and say the cellular carrier was the one offering the all-you-can download audio buffet -- built right into a totally unlimited data, text and voice monthly slate -- and you've basically got the new $55 Muve Music plan from Cricket Wireless
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cricket, cricket wireless, cricketwireless, leap, music, takes-the-open, unlimited
Samsung SCH-R700 is a cute full-touch dumbphone, looks destined for US
It's extraordinarily rare for a Samsung phone to show up in the FCC with full photography available to the public ahead of its official introduction, so color us surprised to see this lil' SCH-R700 hanging out today. It's an 850 / 1900MHz CDMA device with EV-DO, suggesting it'd probably go to Verizon, Sprint, or US Cellular -- Cricket and MetroPCS would almost certainly be off the table since both of those guys use AWS in their coverage
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: barren-draft, button, coverage, cricket, engadget, metropcs, phone, photography, public, samsung, sch
Samsung SCH-R400 is a cute full-touch dumbphone, looks destined for US
It's extraordinarily rare for a Samsung phone to show up in the FCC with full photography available to the public ahead of its official introduction, so color us surprised to see this lil' SCH-R400 hanging out today. It's an 850 / 1900MHz CDMA device with EV-DO, suggesting it'd probably go to Verizon, Sprint, or US Cellular -- Cricket and MetroPCS would almost certainly be off the table since both of those guys use AWS in their coverage
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: basic-dumbphone, been-kicking, cricket, cute-full-touch, engadget, engadget-mobile, fcc, guys, mobile, public, r700, samsung, sprint
Kyocera Rio hits Cricket today for $130
Alright, we know what you're thinking, so let's just clear this up at the outset: it ain't Android . That being said, Kyocera's new Rio for regional carrier Cricket features a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD expansion up to 16GB, a 3.5mm headphone jack, stereo Bluetooth, and an optical trackpad -- a rather unusual touch for this market segment. Of course, Cricket likes to play the no-contract game, and sure enough, the $129.99 that the carrier is asking nets you the Rio without a commitment.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 5mm, bluetooth, Carrier, cricket, engadget-mobile, kyocera, mobile, nov, outset, regional, rio, segment, stereo, trackpad, unusual
Cricket TXTM8 3G tries, fails to include entire alphabet in name
It may not be quite as adorable as its 3G-less predecessor , but Cricket's TXTM8 3G is likely to find an audience just the same -- people love the portrait QWERTY form factor, after all. The phone features a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth, web browser, and -- as the name implies -- support for EV-DO Rev. 0 data.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: alphabet, audience, browser, cricket, Glow, include-entire, megapixel, portrait, predecessor, result, very-difficult, web, web-browser
Cricket’s 3G data roaming goes live
Regional value brand Cricket has really been upping its smartphone street cred lately -- and as such, data's becoming more of a priority. To that end, they'd announced a new 3G data roaming deal in August... and that deal is now live, instantly expanding Cricket's high-speed footprint from around 92 million individuals up to 280 million
Categories: Mobile Phone, Phone Street Tags: 3g data, 3gdata, becoming-more, big-expansion, cricket, crickets, footprint, Lot, partnership, Phone Street, speed
Huawei Ascend is the $150 Android smartphone you might actually want to own
When the Huawei Ascend launches on prepaid carrier Cricket Wireless later this month, it will cost $150. That's not after a rebate or with a two-year agreement, mind you -- for three portraits of Ulysses S. Grant, you actually own the phone
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: ascend, capacitive, cricket, engadget, entry, grant, huawei, motorola, portraits, result, touchscreen
Cricket launches Samsung Messager Touch
Ah yes, if you're thinking this is Cricket 's newest Samsung launch, you're right. The Samsung Messager Touch (or SCH-r631) is a lower-priced QWERTY slider with a 2.6-inch touchscreen display, a slide-out pad -- pictured oh so lovingly above -- a 2 megapixel camera, and availability in either black or white. The cost
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: black-or-white, cricket, earned, megapixel, messager, mobile, samsung, samsung-messager
Boost Mobile adds $2-a-day unlimited everything option
For voice and data alike, "unlimited" is a major buzzword among value carriers like Cricket , Virgin Mobile , and Boost Mobile lately -- and when they can offer it for $10 or $20 less than the big guys, why shouldn't it be? Boost is slicing the unlimited option in a new way this week with the announcement that it's now offering unlimited nationwide voice, messaging, web, IM, email, and information for $2 a day, which if our rough math is correct, works out to $60 a month. That's $10 a more than you pay if you just bite the bullet and prepay on a monthly basis, but obviously it's a heck of a lot more flexible, too -- and with these prepaid guys, flexibility is king
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: buzzword, cricket, heck, major-buzzword, mobile, release, unlimited, virginmobile
Cricket starts offering Android-powered Zio for $230
As we discovered back at its CTIA intro earlier this year, Kyocera's (and Sanyo's) Zio isn't the neatest Android phone you've ever seen -- nor the most technically impressive -- but at $230 without a contract after $20 discount, it's pretty hard to argue that you're not getting what you pay for. Regional carrier Cricket had been promising the Zio for some time, and now it's here, just the latest in the company's newfound push into the smartphone space -- a space it's traditionally avoided in the past -- with the recent launch of the Curve 8530 (for the same price as the Zio, coincidentally). Trackballs are officially pass
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: budget, Carrier, cricket, cricket wireless, curve, launch, leap wireless, leapwireless, mobile, starts-offering, trackballs, zio