Boost Mobile has introduced the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8330 on its BlackBerry Monthly Unlimited plan. I’m guessing the idea is to push the Curve 8330 beyond enterpises to the “regular Joe” who may also like the idea of push-email. In that sense, Boost has ensured consumers can easily grab the device from Best Buy, RadioShack as well as Boost’s own stores.
The phone costs $249.99 (excluding taxes) and the accompanying plan is $60 per month. That price buys you unlimited nationwide voice and text, 3G web access and unlimited email (up to 10 email accounts).
And that’s about it. If your require more information, there’s a dedicated page on Boost Mobile’s website with all the nitty-gritty details.
Sprint (NYSE: S)-owned Boost Mobile announced that its popular $50 Monthly Unlimited Plan is now available in Puerto Rico. As a result, Puerto Ricans will be able to experience some unlimited talk, text and web, and maybe even more important, no roaming fees for travel between Puerto Rico and the mainland U.S. and vice versa.
In addition, Boost Mobile has also made available some of its popular handsets to island, including Sanyo (OTCPK: SANYY) Incognito by Kyocera (NYSE: KYO) ($129.99), Sanyo Mirro by Kyocera ($79.99) and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8330 ($249.99).
Finally, in case you’re wondering where I can get this, Boost Mobile’s service is available at Sprint and RadioShack retail locations throughout Puerto Rico…
Boost Mobile, the division of Sprint (NYSE: S) Mobile that handles prepaid offerings, is going to air a commercial during the Super Bowl. They’re going to recreate the “Super Bowl Shuffle” rap song that was first performed by the 1985 Chicago Bears; see below. Back in those days rap was about telling a story about your daily struggles, now it’s about how much money you stole, how many hoes you slept with and how much vodka you drank at the part last night, but I digress. Bob Stohrer, Vice President of Marketing at Sprint, told The Wall Street Journal that “Prepaid is no longer living in the shadow of contract plans. Choosing prepaid is really mainstream. That is a big shift, and the economy was a catalyst for that.” Sprint would not say how much they’ve spent on the 30 second spot, but people who know about stuff like this say it’s in the range of $2.5 million and $2.9 million.
Having recently landed in America, and needing to get a local SIM to save myself hellish roaming charges, the prepaid experience still isn’t up to the level that it is in Europe, but it’s a hell of a lot better than when I first tried to get a SIM card when I came over in 2007 during the holidays. For those who are curious, I went with T-Mobile (NYSE: DT)’s unlimited text, web, and 500 minutes for ~ $70/month. I have to get used to the fact that my minutes are consumed when people call me. I still don’t know why America is ass backwards in that regard.
Boost Mobile announced that its $50 Monthly Unlimited plan will be available on Sprint (NYSE: S) starting from January 13th. In addition, the carrier announced three new devices Kyocera (NYSE: KYO)’s Sanyo (OTCPK: SANYY) Mirro SCP3810 ($99.99), Sanyo Incognito SCP6760 ($149.99) and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8330 ($249.99), which is available on a new $60 BlackBerry Monthly Unlimited plan.
We’ve already talked about two Kyocera/Sanyo devices, and you probably already know everything about the BlackBerry Curve, so I’ll stop here. I’ll only add that in the same release Boost argues that its network is superior to its competitors’ — MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS) and Leap (Cricket) — which doesn’t come as a surprise since they [Boost] are owned by Sprint…
Boost Mobile has revamped its International Connect $10/month add-on plan for Monthly Unlimited customers to include unlimited calls to Canada (excluding Northern Territories) and landlines in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. In other words, if you agree to pay $10 on top of the Monthly Unlimited plan, you get:
Unlimited calling to Mexico – Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey (to landlines only)
Unlimited calling to Canada – excludes the Northern Territories (area code/city code 867)
Unlimited international text messages worldwide from U.S.
Unlimited international walkie-talkie from the U.S., Canada, and Baja California (Mexico) to Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile.
It looks like Motorola (NYSE: MOT) (NYSE: MOT) really does have an iDEN-based Android phone in the works for Sprint (NYSE: S) (NYSE: S)’s Nextel network. Following on a leaked image of the device codenamed “Opus One,” we’ve stumbled upon a new set of hands-on videos that shows off Nextel’s upcoming Android phone in some detail – as much detail as the blur-tasticly choppy video work allows. YouTube user jay84305 apparently snatched the unreleased Android phone off the street somewhere in Florida’s South Beach and posted a trio of videos today, walking us through the Opus One’s push-to-talk features, video camera, Android apps, and other details in the kind of broken, slang-punctuated English befitting someone that would steal a phone from right underneath the owner’s nose.
Here’s what we know about the Motorola Opus One Android phone:
It’s headed to Nextel (and possibly Boost Mobile)
It runs Android 1.5 OS (Cupcake)
It sports the “p1_opusone” model name under its battery cover.
From the looks of it, the Opus One seems to be every bit as capable an Android phone as we’ve seen for GSM and CDMA networks. It’s running Android 1.5 in the video, but it’s possible that we’ll see the Opus One launching with Android 2.0 or Android 2.1 sometime next year.
The kicker in this tale of a stolen unreleased Android smartphone is jay84305’s claim that he swiped the phone after some Motorola or Sprint employee dropped it next to their car. He says he “almost gave it back” but didn’t because the owner apparently looked like an “asshole.” At least he “[hopes] you don’t get fired.” The best part comes at 4:20 in video #2, when he says he doesn’t know what we really want to know about the phone because “it’s just a regular phone.” That and Jay’s “fuck you” shout out to Miami Police Officer M. Hernandez. Classic.
[Update]
The YouTube videos have apparently been taken down. We managed to snag them before they were nixed. We’ve also added another video to the list. Enjoy!
For those of you who are making the pilgrimage to Best Buy Friday morning, I hope you did some working out beforehand as trying to pick up a TV or a refrigerator without any kind of preparation will not end well.
If you’re anything like me, years of being a hermit has turned your body into a soft, delicate pile of pudding. So why kill yourself when Best Buy has a great number of handsets for sale on Black Friday. If you can lift a bag of potato chips from your lap, then lifting these handsets should be cake!
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) i410, which we saw at the FCC roughly a month ago, has been officially announced and it’s heading to Sprint (NYSE: S)-owned Boost Mobile. As it’s usually the case with iDEN phones, specs won’t impress many, and the same is true for the phone’s design. To be fair, that keyboard kinda reminds me on the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N93, a phone that I had for a year and loved it. However, i410’s specs are far from the N93’s, which actually is an S60 smartphone.
The Moto i410 comes with two screens (96×32-pixel external and 128×160-pixel internal), Bluetooth, push-to-talk functionality, speakerphone, and that’s about it. No camera, no microSD card slot. It’s a super basic phone for those who need to text and call someone from time to time, and eventually rely on the walkie-talkie service (PTT) for some reason…
Sprint (NYSE: S)-owned Boost Mobile announced that calls and texts to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands are now included in their $50 Monthly Unlimited and UNLTD By Boost plans. And while we’re not sure that’s such a big news in times of the cheap VoIP calls, I guess those with friends and/or relatives in the two mentioned places will appreciate what Boost has done. That’s, of course, in case they also happen to rely on Boost Mobile’s service for their mobile needs.
Finally, before I let you go, we have the official work from Boost’s CMO – Neil Lindsay, who said: “Including calling and texting to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands further shows Boost’s commitment to straightforward, worry-free no-contract plans that include everything our customers need and want from a wireless company.”
The Motorola (NYSE: MOT) i856 Debut has landed at Boost Mobile. We’ve first seen the somewhat stylish slider (for an iDEN device) “in the wild” back in March, and honestly, I’m not sure why it took so long for both Moto and Boost to launch this phone. It’s not like there’s something really special about the Debut. It’s a low-end handset with specs that include 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS, music player, and a microSD memory card slot. For $169.99, which is the amount Boost is asking, it should find its clientele which for some reason doesn’t want to switch to GSM or CDMA-based carrier…
You can get additional details, including few quotes from Moto’s and Boost’s representatives, from the official press release.
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